Tim Ellsworth

Evidently too many Fed Ex employees over the past few years have thought they deserved a holiday on the Monday after the Super Bowl.

Hat tip: Owen

Tomlinson thanks God & mom during Athletes in Action Super Bowl breakfast
12 NFL players are ‘Champions’ to kids in FCA event at North Phoenix Baptist Church
Super Bowl worship event expands as network of Christian NFL players grows
Nantz held mic when Dungy credited God
Boggs: Getting serious with cheating
Locke: Super indulgence

A super game for the Super Bowl. Eli Manning’s 33-yard pass to David Tyree late in the game was one of the best plays I’ve ever seen.

Looks like Plaxico Burress wasn’t so crazy after all for his prediction of a 23-17 Giants win. Said Brady in response to Burress: “We’re only going to score 17 points? OK. Is Plax playing defense? I wish he had said 45-42 and gave us a little credit for scoring more points.”

Maybe Burress was in a generous mood, Tom.

Congrats to the Giants for a great win.

Key coordinators among Patriots’ faithful
Giants coaches build one another up

Giants’ early woes sparked Tyree to share faith, leadership for turnaround
Some Patriots see beyond NFL record book

NE Chaplain’s authenticity: ‘I’ve lived it’
Pats chaplain devises spiritual game plan
Giants’ owners’ character draws praise

More stories on the Super Bowl will be posted throughout the week.

I originally posted this back in September, but given New England’s presence in the AFC championship game against San Diego this weekend, thought it would be appropriate to post again. Good stuff.

UPDATE: The embedded video was taking a long time to load, so I removed it. If you want to see the video, go here.

With three weeks left in the season and many teams pressing for playoff spots, we’re saddled with a Monday night game of New Orleans vs. Atlanta tonight. Could there possibly be a bigger yawner of a game?

Nice move, NFL.

It’s a question Jon Walker tackles.

In other words, God will forgive you for what you have done, but He most likely won’t remove the consequences of what you have done. God forgives fully and unconditionally, but that doesn’t mean we won’t reap what we have sown: The crisis pregnancy remains, the prosecution takes place, the job is lost, or the death occurs.

Michael Vick will serve 23 months in jail for his involvement in dogfighting.

Pitt beats West Virginia — which was especially surprising, because Dave Wannstedt never beats anybody. Oklahoma beats Missouri.

So who gets to play in the national championship game? Everyone seems to think that Ohio State is a lock. No matter who gets in, there’s going to be a compelling case for somebody else to have been selected instead.

Does Georgia get in ahead of SEC champ LSU? Surely not. But why then is a two-loss LSU team more deserving than a one-loss Kansas team, or a two-loss Missouri team, or a two-loss USC team, or a two-loss Oklahoma team, etc.? You get the picture.

And why are any of the two-loss teams more deserving than an undefeated Hawaii (assuming they beat Washington tonight)?

This is a nightmare scenario for the BCS, and I couldn’t be happier about it.  It’s time for a playoff.

Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel has proposed a playoff system for college football that looks pretty darn good to me. Here’s what it would look like this year.

Now that would make for some interesting football. Instead of one postseason game that has meaning, you’d have 15 games that have meaning.

Hat tip: Mark G.

I was thrilled to see Illinois knock off Ohio State today. Ron Zook has certainly turned the Illini football program around, and I’m hopeful about the team’s future.

Right now I think I’m most interested in seeing an Oregon-LSU national championship game.

Tomorrow I’m off to East Tennessee for a few days for the Tennessee Baptist Convention, so blogging will most likely be light until the end of the week.  If you’re going to be in Kingsport for the meeting, let me know.

Laz has an interesting post about a Jason Whitlock column on the whitening of NFL rosters.

I was looking at the new college football rankings for the week, and noticed something screwy. Can someone explain to me why Boston College, at 6-0, is ranked fourth, while Missouri, at 5-0, is ranked 11th?

Boston College has wins over Wake Forest, NC State, Army, UMASS, and a Georgia Tech team that was ranked 15th at the time but has since fallen from the poll.

Missouri, meanwhile, has a win at Illinois (now ranked 18th), a 41-6 pummeling of Nebraska (ranked 25th at the time), plus wins at Mississippi and against Western Michigan and Illinois State.

Missouri is far more deserving of a top-five ranking than BC is. And it’s absolutely ridiculous to have a seven-spot discrepancy between the two teams.