Tiger Who?

For those of you that think golf is a boring sport to play and to watch, should have checked out this past weekends Ryder Cup tournament. This is a tournament that matches up the best players from USA against the best players of Europe.

The tournament takes place every two years and alternates locations between Europe and USA. This year's tournament took place on US soil in Kentucky. The USA hasn't won the Ryder Cup trophy since 1999 and this year they were without the best player in the world, Mr. Tiger Woods.

But that didn't seem to matter. The young US team came out firing on all cylinders and lead all three days and ended up winning the Ryder Cup by a score of 16 1/2 points to 11 1/2.

Now like I was saying, those of you that think golf is boring and think all you do is hit a little ball 500 yards into a little cup; That may be true, but if you watched the tournament this past weekend your perception would surely change.

This tournament is all about team play and representing your country. Just like with the Olympics or any other team representing your country, everything changes. There is no better satisfaction that representing your own nation going against another country that thinks they are better than you.

Emotions are usually reserved during a regular golf tournament, but not in the Ryder Cup. Every hole is important and when you make that crucial putt to take a lead, then emotions will surely come out and the crowd reacts just as well. Chants of U.S.A and O'lay, from the crowd just gives you chills watching this tournament.

So next time you want to bash golf as a boring sport, stop and think before you speak, because golf is a very hard sport and requires much skill to play.

Props to USA captain Paul Azinger who put together a solid team victory to bring the Ryder Cup back to US soil. Though Tiger wasn't able to play and help out his country, I know he is proud of his fellow members.

A few headlines from the NFL. The big story of the day had to be the Miami Dolphins going into New England and just running all over the Brady-less Patriots. The Dolphins ended the Pats 21 game regular season winning streak handing the Pats a 38-13 loss. I didn't get to see the game, but I saw the highlights and all you can see is Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams just running all over the place on the Pats defense.

Ronnie Brown scored a franchise best four rushing touchdowns to go along with 100 plus rushing yards. But what happened to the Patriots? Yeah they lost the reigning league MVP for the rest of the season, but they still have a good defense right? I guess not, or maybe the Dolphins wanted to win more than the Pats.

Then if you watch the post game news conference on ESPN news, you see boring Bill Belichick at the mic talking in his monotone voice saying, yeah the Dolphins played good, we have a lot to work on, blah, blah. He is probably the most boring coach in the league. He rarely shows emotion anytime, on or off the field. Congrats to the Dolphins on a big win.

One other note for the day, Tampa Bay back up quarterback Brian Griese threw 67 passes yesterday in their overtime win over the Bears. 67 pass attempts! Are you serious? And he completed 38 of those 67. I mean throwing 38 passes is a lot of passes for one game, but 67!? I think that is the most passes I have witnessed in my lifetime. I am pretty sure that guy had an ice pack on his shoulder for the rest of the night and will surely be having a massage at some point this week.