This past weekend, the National Football League had a series of bizarre situations that has led to one of the strangest weeks ever in the NFL. The strange situation started Saturday afternoon when the New York Giants were on their way to Minneapolis for their game Sunday afternoon against the Vikings. Their plane was diverted to Kansas City, where they were stuck in the airport for a few hours while the Minneapolis airport stopped accepting flights. Eventually, they spent the night in Kansas City and Sunday morning the NFL announced that the game would be played on Monday night in Detroit. Folks tat had tickets for the game in Minnesota could use those tickets while the NFL gave away free, first come first serve general admission tickets at Ford Field. According to press reports, people started lining up for tickets in Detroit at 2:00am. Many have seen the video of the snow coming through the roof of the MetroDome. Who would have thought that the city of Detroit would host two NFL games this weekend?
Another strange event happened in Washington, DC during the Washington Redskins – Tampa Bay Buccaneers game. The Redskins were trailing the Buccaneers, and started a last minute drive to try and tie the score. The Skins moved the ball down the field and finally ended up with the ball close to the goal line. Watching the game on television, on first down, the Skins gained nine yards to set up second and one. The Skins ran four additional plays, with the final play being a touchdown. However, it appeared as though the Skins got an extra play since they didn’t get a first down. The touchdown didn’t affect the final score since the Skins missed the extra point and lost by a point.
The most disgusting incident of the day happened during the Miami Dolphins – New York Jets game. On a punt by the Dolphins, Dolphins cornerback Nolan Carroll was running down the sideline to cover the punt and the Jets strength and conditioning coach, Sal Alosi, stuck out his knee and tripped Carroll. Carroll stayed on the ground for a few minutes and was helped off the field by the Dolphins trainers. TV commentator, Dan Fouts couldn’t believe what had just happened. He might have replayed the play five or six times and each time mentioned how disgusting the play was. According to press reports, Mr. Alosi allegedly called both Dolphins coach Tony Sparano and Nolan Carroll prior to their flight back to Florida to apologize. Everything about this play was terrible. Every child that plays sports learns certain things about sportsmanship and any idiot would know that what Alosi did was wrong. Now the ig question is what type of punishment should he get? The league has fined and suspended other front office personnel who get arrested for drunk driving, so you can be sure that they will punish Alosi. The question is will it match the crime? Unless the NFL fines him at least $50,000 and then the Jets fire him, the punishment is way too light. This act was terrible and sends the wrong message to every kid who watches and follows the NFL. It would basically be saying that cheating is ok, as long as you play/work for a team that the league likes and wants to promote. It will be interesting to see what happens.
No matter whether you enjoy the NFL or not, this week provided a lot of strange situations that will probably leave fans questioning what is going on in the league. Too often already this year, fans have questioned the officiating and now they are even more examples of how each game gathers a ton of interest by the fans. While there were some great games yesterday, I don’t think these situations were the type of interest the league was hoping for.
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