Uniform Blasphemy

The photo at the top is a Miami (Ohio) University football player. The photo at the bottom is a University of Wisconsin football player. Anyone else see a problem here?!? When a football school like Wisconsin starts dressing like a not-known-for-our-football school like Miami (O-h-i-o) you know you're not doing something right.

Why this hideous (matching colored pants and colored jerseys) uniform decision?

AP:

[Badgers coach Bret] Bielema broke with tradition for the Badgers' home opener two weeks ago against Washington State, dressing the players in all red instead of red and white. While the new uniform drew a mixed reaction from fans, the players loved it, and Bielema said it will be back against The Citadel.

"I love to see just red swarming the football," Bielema said. "As this thing hopefully gains momentum, it will have a huge effect at Camp Randall."

While time will tell if Bielema's color scheme catches on, the Badgers are riding an 11-game winning streak that is tops in the nation.

Memo to Bielema -- the winning streak started back when your team dressed like football players, not wrestlers in a unitard. Bring back the white pants.

[Note: Before my reader asks, yes, the all white road uniforms are A-OK because that is a classic football look. The unitard, on the other hand, is something that a high school team would wear when the school district can't afford to buy both home and road pants].

A Few Yards Short of Intelligible

Whoever invented the NFL's quarterback passing rating statistic must be related to the guy who created the English system of measurement.

Slate.com:

The NFL's system uses four metrics: completion percentage, yards per attempt, percentage of touchdowns thrown per attempt, and percentage of interceptions per attempt. The four factors are weighted equally.

A score between zero and 2.375 is calculated for each metric. A score of 1.0 is supposed to be average. A completely average quarterback would complete 50 percent of his passes, average 7 yards per attempt, throw 5 percent of his passes for touchdowns, and throw an interception 5.5 percent of the time.

Uh...what...?

Oh, hey, look, a baseball game is on!

NFL Preseason

Quick, think of a sporting event that is overhyped more than the NFL pre-season.

Have you come up with one?

Hmmm....

...What about now?

No, I can wait...