Josh Allen Shines

Josh Allen is a marvelous quarterback. He has a strong and accurate throwing arm and a relatively quick release (though in that aspect he is no Dan Marino or even Tom Brady). He does not have Michael Vick or Lamar Jackson type speed, but he is a great running qb and trying to bring him down is like attempting to tackle a really good yards after contact tight end as Josh is about six-five and two forty, and exceptionally strong for his size. Allen has not yet won a Super Bowl ring and might never, but he has all the tools to be a champion. 

The Titan Mortification

My hometown Tennessee Titans are not just a bad football team but an historically awful one. I had family in the Tampa area when the Buccaneers set several marks for futility, but that was at the inception of that franchise as an expansion team, comprised mainly of the castoffs of other teams. The Titans are an old club that was winning titles before the merger in the former American Football League. Now, they have fallen to depths so low that they make bad teams look like world beaters. Yesterday, they made their fellow winless Houston Texans, the arch-rival team from the city they abandoned, look like Super Bowl contenders by getting smashed by a tally of twenty-six to three. After the initial drive of the game where Tennessee made a field goal, the boys in blue were supine the rest of the contest. Yes, sadly, the Titans are the worst non-expansion outfit in the history of professional football. 

Alabama Was Robbed

I am no particular fan of the Crimson Tide but recognize a theft when I see it. Georgia did not beat Alabama last night, but the officials sure did. As a lifelong Tennessean, I will be rooting for my Vols this coming Saturday, and therefore, sure hope the same referee who handed the Bulldogs victory is there to help my Big Orange win over the team from Tuscaloosa. 

A Real Chance

My hometown Titans have a real shot at a victory Sunday. It is sadly not as if Tennessee has become a good football team. It is because the visiting team, our Division rival Houston, is not any good either. At 0 and four, the Texans are in the race to the bottom with our boys in blue. I would say someone is finally going to emerge from this game with a win, but justice or irony might find the contest knotted up at the end in a tie ballgame. 

Past His Prime?

King James remains a mighty good forward but even he can't defeat Father Time. LeBron is not as quick as he once was, but he is likely more savvy than he ever was, as he has accumulated more on-court experience than any other player. Does Philadelphia automatically become a championship contender because the King has arrived? I would say not necessarily, but if Embiid can stay healthy the entire season, he and James make a formidable tandem, surrounded by what should be a very solid team. 

The Winning Hand

Let us assume that figures touted by Muslims are correct or nearly so. Two billion Muslims can't be wrong or stopped or even resisted very long. The true face of Islam is not that bend over backwards cab driver who helped you navigate New York City (but also gladly voted for his fellow Muslim to be Mayor). The face of Islam is the terrorist who strangled the Bibas baby. The face is the Iranian prison guard who participated in raping the nineteen year old street demonstrator he is going to hang from a crane in the morning, because he believes he is taking away her chance to enter heaven by robbing her of virginity before he takes her life. Islam is no "religion of peace" but a death and murder cult that is trying to capture the entire world and seems to be winning in that effort. 

Three Years Hence

On this anniversary marking three years since the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Israel, the alleged power in the region, has NOT been able to vanquish Hamas or take full control of Gaza, even though the Jewish State is backed by the superpower of the world, the United States. Sure, the IDF has martyred many terrorists, but for each the Jews kill, ten rise up to resist in the name of the shahid. There was no question at the end of 1945 who had won the war in Europe with German cities flattened, the country divided in occupation, and every woman who was not hideous to look at in the Soviet Zone raped by Russian soldiers. Payback for the crimes of Nazism bore a heavy price. Revenge on Hamas for their atrocities has not ended their ruthless rule and control over much of Gaza. Israel has undeniably failed.