History This Week

Rocky Mount High School is out of school for most of the week but sports continues.
Tuesday Basketball gets their first game at home in nearly a month. It's not that being away from home has been bad since both the boys and girls are 4-0 and the Nash Holiday Tournament champions since they played home.

Fike will be in the house Tuesday and first place will be on the line against the Golden Demons. There is a possibility that Tashawn Mabrey could become the all time scoring leader Tuesday night breaking Phil Ford's record.

Friday night the Gryphons hit the road again traveling to Southern Nash.

I am coming off my worse weekend ever picking playoff football games. I was 0-4. It was very apparent to me the motivated home teams are hard to beat. Three of the four won while San Diego played as if they were the team that had rust and had not played their starters in a month.

It only proves one thing, Indy deliberately losing their chance to go undefeated to rest players worked. Dallas's win last weekend got rubbed in their face in the fourth quarter when Brett Favre threw his fourth touchdown in the last two minutes with a meaningless touchdown.

There has been a lot of talk in the NFL about adding to regular season games. I don't see that as being a good solution. Here is my NFL Proposal keeping regular season at 16 games.

1. Expand playoffs to 16 teams
2. First weekend of playoffs only eight teams play. The other eight are off.
3. Next weekend those that were off play and the first weekend winners are then off.
4. Third weekend all winners of week one and two play
5. Fourth weekend is conference championship weekend
6. Super Bowl

This eliminates byes. All teams must win four games to be champion. This adds one weekend to playoffs. Keeps regular season the same and all players salaries stay same. Playoff money comes from a playoff pot already any way. This would mean three straight playoff weeks of Saturday/Sunday doubleheaders. Actually the season is expanded one week players salaries can stay same but NFL gets another weekend of playoff money from TV and the only teams that wind up playing one more game is the two teams in Super Bowl.