January 16, 2006

Jerome Bettis Almost Became the Next Bill Buckner

With the Cowboys out of contention, I'm not real excited about the playoffs this year. Still, being a football fan I love watching any type of football on TV. I was really interested in the Colts and Steelers game today since I really like Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy and wouldn't be too disappointed if they won it all.

The funny thing is that I was rooting for the Colts the whole game until with 1 minute left, I became a Steeler fan. Yeah, being a Cowboy fan, I'll probably get a beat-down saying that. If you didn't see the game, you missed Jerome Bettis making a 5 yard run for the endzone to give the Steelers a 10 point lead and lock up the game. What happened though was Bettis fumbled the ball (his first fumble of the year) and the Colts ran it back towards midfield. The Colts eventually missed a 50 yard field goal that would have sent the game into overtime.

Now back to why I was rooting for the Steelers at the end. Who I was really rooting for was Jerome Bettis. Even if you don't know much about football, you probably know what a great ambassador Jerome Bettis is for the game of football (oh yeah, he's also a Golden Domer). He's may be retiring at the end of this year after a hall of fame career and I just couldn't bear to see him remembered as the guy who cost the Steelers a shot at the Super Bowl. If the Steelers lost, ESPN would surely show the Bill Buckner and Jerome Bettis clips back to back every hour.

That being said, I hope Denver demolishes Pittsburg and to all of the Dallas fans out there: Please forgive me temporarily rooting for the Steelers.