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| Game Summary (Earl Schmidt, NetFL Press) I get paid very well doing something I usually enjoy. There are, however, occasional games that I only report on under silent protest. Let me begin by being brutally honest. AW is quite the vile team, wholly outclassed in all aspects of the game by PC. I love football. The stale smell of rancid beer, the sweaty crowd of rabid fans, the cross-eyed and homely cheerleaders trying to incite us to collective ear-drum rupturing noise, the reverberating sound of vicious collisions, the poetic beauty of a laser-guided bullet pass crashing into the receiver's outstretched hands - yes, this is what I live for. This is what I saw today. Kudos to PC for pulling out the leftover turkey, topping them and definitively putting on the superior show, but overall, it was quite a frenetic, enjoyable game. Drew Brees groaned, "Our defense was stout - I mean, golly. Have you ever seen such an effort? I mean, except for those breakdowns that led to all those scores. For at least half of the plays, we were great though. It's something to build on is all I'm getting at." Ernie Sims waxed poetic, stating, "I still can't believe that I've got this awesome gig, man. I mean, here I am, a player without talent earning millions of dollars to lose a game and look like a geriatric clown trying to do a birthday party for four-year-olds. You ain't gonna write this and get me in trouble, are you?" PC has repelled AW as though they were horses being sent to the glue factory, topping them by the tune of 25-19 in front of a despondent home crowd. PC is all knotted up in the all-time series 7-7 against AW. PC has a 8-4 regular season record (0-1 in this year's playoffs). AW has a 4-8 regular season record. Things went very well for the PC squad even though they did not excel on either side of the ball last week as they racked up a combined 277 points, 155 on offense and 122 on defense. Braylon Edwards with 25 points on offense and Ike Taylor with 10 points on defense were the top scorers. However, they were far from perfect. Said Coach/GM Glenn Good, "Sure, I'm a bit concerned about a few things.. For one, Correll Buckhalter was as sharp as a sponge today. Doc says that he's gotten much better since he's started the electroshock therapy... something about frontal lobes and things with molecular structures. It all sounded very clinical to me, but as long as it keeps him on the field, I'm all for it. As for those OST? They were utterly incompetent, gaining absolutely nothing over the course of the contest. Overall though, the Don't Euthanize After Disaster award - given to one blundering fool each week - was really difficult to decide on this go around. I promise the poor slob that I won't be taking away his livelihood. This week, the DEAD man in this game was Rocky McIntosh. There's no love lost between these two clubs. Glenn Good blathered, "Who? I didn't realize they were still in the league." In response, the AW coach groaned, "Let's see... something nice to say? Well, they're not the most repugnant team out there, but that's kinda like saying that Shockey isn't as annoying as that Owens clown." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||