Sports Happenings

This weekend produced a lot of interesting results in the sports world. The defending Superbowl champs lost, the #1 ranked team in the NFL lost (which happens to be my team), and Michelle Kwan was given the green light over the 3rd place finisher in the trials to compete in the Olympics. The third of which was the most baffling to me.

I find it kind of interesting that I'm talking about figure skating, but, I've been following the Michele Kwan saga and have been a little baffled that they are able to tell someone who competed and placed in the Olympic Trials that they are now an alternate. I do understand that Michele has dominated the figure skating world for the past 10 years or so now, and giving someone a bye has happened in the past, but I do find it a little unfair to those who have trained and were ready to compete when it was time to. It's always an unfortunate event when someone gets hurt at an inopportune time, but is it fair to those who are ready?

Michele Kwan is quoted as saying that if she's not 100% ready to compete by January 27th, she will give up her spot to the alternate because it would be unfair for her to keep the spot. That is a noble thing to do, but should she even have the spot to begin with? I honestly don't know. There's two ways to rationalize this situation.

Next, my Colts lost yesterday. Even though I am a Colts fan, I can honestly say that I don't think they played as well as I have seen them play before. In fact, I thought the Steelers dominated the Colts throughout much of the game. Yes, you can say the kicker blew a chance to tie the game, but a lot of other players also missed opportunities that would have produced different results.

I'm a very disappointed fan, but disappointed in the fact the Colts could not produce big results, and disappointed that the Steelers played much better.