Telegram Hex

Is there such a thing as the "Telegram" Hex much like the "Sports Illustrated" hex on teams that make the front cover of that magazine. Yesterday the Telegram ran an article on Nash Central's boys basketball team and tonight they lose by 29 at Northern Nash 76-47. DeShawn Freeman lead the way for Northern pumping in 37. Looks with a week to go that he would be my pick for player of the year in the Big East. The Lady Knights had an easy time in a win over the Nash Central girls.

Monday night at Fike Rocky Mount boys beat Fike by what shall we say was a comfortable score. Tonight Rocky Mount has their running shoes on and hits the century mark for the first time this year taking down Fike 100-74. Kenyatta Bullock lead the Gryphon attack with 21 but every body got in the action.

The Lady Gryphons kept their unbeaten conference season going beating Fike 63-54. Fike has given Rocky Mount all they wanted in both of their battles this week. J'Kyra Brown sporting a shiner from Tuesday night's game at Hunt lead the way scoring 18 while Jameka Ruffin lead the Lady Golden Demons with 19.

Back during the fall on this website I reported that one of the greatest names in the history of Rocky Mount High School had cancer. I had been hearing rumors in the past few days of good news coming for Danny Talbott. Today I called Danny to be given the great news from him that his cancer is in remission. He must go back to Chapel Hill of February 14th for a Stem Cell Transplant. He has finished all his Chemo treatments and he and I enjoyed about a ten minute conversation.

I just want to tell you whether you are a believer in the Lord God All Mighty as I do or not but there is power in prayer. The entire Gryphon and Black Bird nation has had Danny in our prayers. I enjoyed listening to Danny talk about his faith and of course about Carolina during our talk. We need to keep him in our prayers because the job is not done, he is winning the battle but that dirty old BIG C fights hard battles.

You will have to endure me once again this year on WHIG-TV as I will for I think the 7th year host the Relay For Life Countdown Show. The past decade it has been on Monday nights at 6.00pm but starting Sunday we will be live at 2.30pm and it will be replayed at 6.00pm on Tuesday night. They wanted to do it live on Tuesdays but I told them they would have to go without me. Tuesday night is ball games of some sort whether basketball or baseball between now and the Relay in April.

Super Bowl Pick Time

It is the Friday before the big game. If you have to be one of those people who has to work on Sunday night you have probably have heard from management that there is no call ins Sunday night saying you are sick. You fill out a vacation day in advance or show up for work, the only excuse for not working Sunday night is death.

The Super Bowl is just about like the first day of hunting season. It has become so big that it needs to be a national holiday. This year for the first time in a while the big game has two evenly match teams which makes this one of the best match ups ever. Not only are they two of the most storied franchises in the NFL but as this season has unfolded they are truly the two best teams in the NFL this year.

If you look at the past there always seems to be one team that was not suppose to make it but because they got hot at the right time survived to make it to the Super Bowl. This year almost looks like a dream match up. The only thing hindering this Super Bowl from being one of the best ever is the weather. Since the game is play inside in the Billion dollars Jerry Jones stadium by game time the weather will not be a factor. If you were lucky enough to have a ticket the only missing ingredient this week is the carnival atmosphere that goes along with any big event like the Super Bowl. Everything has been pushed inside.

This game highlights the hottest quarterback in the NFL in Aaron Rogers. He is the guy who replaced Brett Farve. I have not heard of any demonstrations during any Packer games over the last three years where people in Green Bay wanted Brett Farve back. Rogers has become the exception to the rule. It is suppose to take ten quarterbacks to forget Farve but the Packers only needed one. Maybe that is why the Packers showed the aging Farve the door in order to get Rogers playing time.

Now that Rogers has tossed the fifteen hundred passes minimum to be rated on the all time passing list he is first in QB rating. His three playoff games to date are the highest ratings of all time by far. To this point in his short career Aaron Rogers is making Brett Farve look like the JV quarterback of Packer history.

The other side of the line of scrimmage there is Ben Roethlisberger. He is more famous for his off the field antics than on the field but you have to give it to Big Ben. Somehow or other he weasels out of off the field trouble just like he evades a pass rush during games. He is more effective when in trouble because he is shifty enough that he side steps to freedom just long enough to put a dagger in the other teams heart.

Both of these defenses can crush a quarterback. The Steelers have the guy with the hair Troy Pala Mala what ever his name is that catches more passes than the team that is suppose to be catching the ball. They also have the leading money loser in the NFL for crushing quarterbacks. The Packers are just as good on defense as offense only just you have never heard of many of them.

This Super Bowl to me looks like one of the best ever. It probably will not be because one defense will pick up a fumble and score and what looked like a good game will become one sided.

This is one game that I don’t care one way or the other. I don’t have a hate for either team. If I had to give you my opinion theses two teams are teams like you wished the entire NFL was like. Green Bay is owned by the people of the city while Pittsburgh is a mill town that has survived when the steel industry went to China.

Boy this is a tough game to call. I just have this feeling that Pittsburgh is going to make Aaron Rogers very uncomfortable. In the back of my mind this is one of those this Pittsburgh team has been to the Super Bowl three times with this group while this is the first time for this Green Bay group, Pittsburgh should win but like last year when Indy should have won. I’m taking the Packers.