By Mark La Monica
This week's salute to the bold, brash and man-up moments in sports
Props to Fred Taylor who admitted that he voted for himself a few times in the online fan balloting for the Pro Bowl. Impressive move for the Jaguars running back who has never been named to the Pro Bowl. You know he's not the only one who's done it. His quote about it was even better: "‘Why not vote for yourself?," he said. Ten extra votes. This is Florida."
Props to Brian Westbrook, the Eagles running back who thinks about the team before he does his stats. Eagles lead Cowboys, 10-6, with just over two minutes left. Cowboys have no timeouts left. Westbrook breaks a run and then tackles himself at the Cowboys' 1-yard line. He could have scored, padded his TD stats and given the Cowboys two minutes to score 13 points. Not probable, but Westbrook was smart enough to know it's not worth letting them try.
Props to Andy Pettitte for manning up and admitting his two-day use of HGH, as documented in the Mitchell Report. It takes a good man to admit that, instead of denying it just because the report has no legal ramifications.
Props to F.P. Santangelo for doing the same thing.
Props to the Miami Dolphins for getting off the schneid and beating the Ravens, 22-16 in overtime. Sure, it completely destroyed my Don Shula Scenario, but such is life. Now let's just hope they find Snowflake soon.
Props to Micheal Spurlock of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the being the first person in the 31-year history of the franchise to return a kickoff for a touchdown. It used to be death, taxes and no kickoff returns for touchdowns in Tampa. Now, it's just death and taxes. Not much to look forward to, huh?
Comments (2)
And in Florida there is no state income tax.
Props to Andy Pettite? Seriously, did you hear his "apology"?
He could haved used the word IF one more time, IF I offended anyone.......
Dude - leave the holier then though approach behind, its no longer working.
There are no IFs ands or butts about it, you were wrong, you broke the law.
His apology was half-assed to me, BUT, he did say something, AND, although wants to leave Roger Baby out of it, he certainly made Roger's denials seem even MORE incredibly bogus.....
"OH MY GOODNESS, ITS ROGER CLEMENS IN GEORGE'S BOX"
hahahahahahahahahah That will NEVER get old