What about Bob?

Now that the Giants' running back triumvirate of Brandon Jacobs, Derrick Ward and Ahmad Bradshaw has been given the clever nickname of "Earth, Wind and Fire," I was thinking about a nickname for your Newsday NFL team of reporters: Tom Rock, Bob Glauber and Erik Boland.

How about "Girth, Wind and Fire."

Rock has allowed me to refer to him as "Girth," actually a cool nickname dating back to his days as a hulking schoolboy center at Levittown Division back in the day.

Glauber would be "Wind," as in a windbag who can't stop talking. Even when the game is on the line. (At a game in Baltimore last year, as Kellen Clemens was attempting to lead the Jets in a late fourth-quarter comeback, I turned to "Girth" and said out of nowhere, "I saw a dead guy today," referencing a motorcyle accident I'd seen on the way to the game.)

And Boland is "Fire," as in Bubbling Cauldron of Intensity fire.

(Look, it's a blog. It's meant for goofing off. I have turned into Eddie Haskell because of this thing, so please indulge.)

If you want something serious, here's my column from yesterday's newspaper about "Earth, Wind and Fire," which did a number on the Ravens on Sunday.

(Yes, this is all so silly. Then again, Best is posting pictures of toilets on his blog, so what the heck.)