Winning Is Not That Easy

It is really easy to assume that you can pick out the wins on your schedule before the season starts. Rocky Mount High School is in the midst of its greatest six-year football winning period in history.

It hasn't been that long ago that Rocky Mount was in a 20-year period of being average and sometimes that was at best average.

A roll like the Gryphons are on now you easily forget that you have to earn every victory.

Just take a look today in the NFL. The odds-on favorite to win the Super Bowl, the San Diego Chargers, find themselves 0-2 and they have scored 62 points in the first two games.

It looks like Philip Rivers is back in Raleigh quarterbacking the N.C. State Wolfpack where in order to win they had to score 50 most games.

In New York, everyone wrote off the Patriots and gave Brett Favre a victory today because Tom Brady was out for the season. What we all saw was Tom Brady is not the world's most valuable player like we thought. The Patriots can win with a quarterback who doesn't make mistakes because they still have one of the best defenses in the NFL.

We can all see why now why the Green Bay Packers wanted to ship Favre to retirement because No.12 Aaron Rogers is pretty good.

Indianapolis has been awful on offense in both its games and yet, it is1-1 and today it found a way to win or Minnesota found a way to lose - you make the call.

Anyone notice that the Carolina Panthers play better on the road than at home. Why is that? Today was their first home-opening win in five years.

You know the best team in the NFL right now might be the Tennessee Titans as long as Kerry Collins is the quarterback

The worst team in the NFL might the Tennessee Titans with Vince Young at QB.

I wish I was kidding about that, but I'm not.

Turning to college football:

Carolina is off to a 2-0 start and has a home game Saturday against Virginia Tech. I think the Tar Heels will win but hold on Tar Heel fans you haven't played anybody, yet.

In three games, the N C State offense has scored in one game and the N.C. State defense has scored in two games. Maybe they should trade sides and see what the defensive players can do on offense.

Duke won its second game of the season. You have got to give it to Coach Cutcliffe. He talks a lot different than anyone in Durham since Spurrier left.

All of you fans that said that the fans running out on the field at ECU last Saturday was just college kids having fun, there is a letter in the mail asking all Pirate club fans to pay for all that fun. Conference USA fined ECU for unsportsmanlike conduct.

ECU is 3-0 on the season. In order to protect the N C State goal post this Saturday, I'm predicting the Wolfpack this Saturday. Don't ask me why, but I really do like those goal post in Raleigh.

Finally, I will finish up with this:

Referees have a hard job, but today there was a game-changing play made when the head referee blew his whistle on what he thought was an incomplete pass, when in fact Jay Cutler had fumbled the ball.

The ruling was I made a mistake and because I made a mistake, here's what we have to do. Instead of the Chargers getting the ball and a victory, the Broncos get two more plays and a win.

I'm sitting, I mean standing in my living room hollering 'not again' at the Charger defense which has taken two fourth quarter winning drives away from Rivers in the first eight days of the season.

But you know what, I can live with the call because that's the rule. I hate that rule, but too bad.

I'll go to work tomorrow and have to abide by rules that I don't like sometimes, but they are the rules. What choice do we have? Have no rules and live in chaos or follow the rules.