The good sports stories continued for Indiana teams over the weekend.
The Hoosiers continued to roll. The only question now is, who's going to finally beat this team? If there was an office pool on the question, I'd pick Michigan. Or maybe Illinois. Could it possibly be Butler next Saturday?
Indiana's soccer team won the national championship, although the lack of media coverage was disappointing.
Butler knocked off Northwestern.
Manti Te'o didn't get the Heisman, but that wasn't really a surprise. He was up against an anti-Notre Dame bias among the "elite" sports people, plus a Heisman bias that has always favored quarterbacks and running backs. Although Johnny Football seems like a great guy and a decent college quarterback, I'm not sure the freshman was the better choice over Te'o.
The Colts won again. The custodians at Lucas Oil must still be trying to clean up the stench from that first half performance yesterday. Bob Lamey had it about right when he called it "horrible". But the Colts just played better in the second half, mostly on defense, and grabbed the ugly and sort of boring victory. The stunning realization I had this morning is that if New England beats the Houston Texans tonight, that would give the Colts an actual shot at stealing the division championship.
As much as the Colts have overachieved this season, the possibility of a division title shouldn't be ruled out entirely.
It's a nice distraction from all the stupidity elsewhere. Liberals are getting ridiculous, pushing outrageous new communist ideas and saying stupid things. The entire "Fiscal Cliff" issue is disturbingly dishonest from nearly every aspect. If hiking the top tax rate to forty percent had even a chance of solving the massive deficit and debt problem, at least the argument would be worth considering. But it won't even make a tiny dent, and that dent gets even smaller as people change their behavior to avoid having to pay 40.
I'm rapidly losing respect for Boehner, who continues to play the Democrats' game. It's beyond me why he and the Republicans don't go out and push hard to sell their own solution to the economic and budgetary problems that are burying the country. Push a plan to cut spending and bring back a booming economy! Instead he talks about small ideas to close loopholes. OK as far as that goes, but we need to see a much bigger vision.
I'd rather continue to enjoy the distractions.
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