If you have not seen Coach Ditka on "The Blitz" on ESPN News, you need to. This is a program where Sean Salisbury (the guy with the big head) and Coach Ditka break down the NFL games on Sundays around 5:00 or so. Coach Ditka has problems finishing sentences these days and it's hilarious to hear him yelling about stuff. He really lit into the Bears defense today for not playing up to snuff, and he was right. He said he'd give Charles Tillman a bus ticket and a hamburger and tell him to leave town.

The games were pretty good today. Carolina has it going (Fear the Panther) and the Steelers, although they hung on at the end, looked really good. Poor Peyton Manning. He might end up being known for his commercials and not his playoff wins. The Colts blocking scheme today was not good, as the Steelers blitz worked all day. It's amazing the Colts could have tied at the end, except the "liquored-up kicker" missed the field goal.

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Someone by the name of Richard Forrest channels my Mother. "I looked down and whoa, man, it's Mickey. I punched his lights out."

The controversy about James Frey's memoir continues. The bottom line is how can you factcheck a memoir? Unfortunately, many people don't care because he didn't really hurt anyone, it was a good read, etc.

As the NFL season winds down, it's good to see the "Nextel Dance Party" is still going strong. "Where's Meckler?"

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I saw Bill Belichick say bad words (really all of the Patriots seemed a bit testy)during the end of the Patriots' reign last night. New England had way too many turnovers. And they were turnovers that led to incredibly short fields for the Broncos to navigate. Combine that with an incredibly awful pass interference late in the first half and an equally dumb interception in the endzone in the second half and that spelled doom. For the record, there was no pass interference and Champ Bailey's fumble should have been ruled a touchback, but how are you gonna determine that without 3-D glasses?

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None, it's a sunny, then cloudy, but cold Sunday.