Northern Wins Conference Cross Country Title

Saturday Northern Nash dominated the boys cross country run as they have all year winning the Big East Cross Country Championship. Is there any question after Saturday night that Florida State is playing like Florida State use to play when they first joined the ACC. They are 3rd in BCS and quite frankly now that Clemson is out of the way who can beat them rest of the way, probably nobody? As you all Know my favorite player in the NFL is Philip Rivers who according to the NFL know it alls has had two terrible years the last two year. In fact his qb rating those two years was 89 which is the level that qb's are considered average. This year he is having his best year ever as a pro. He still has the 6th best QB rating in NFL history. If the NFL picked their MVP right now Peyton Manning would win hands down but looking at the numbers PR is on his heels. Manning QB rating is down to 123 which is out of sight. Rivers is 111 which if this was the end of season 111 would be the 2nd best in the history of football. Yesterday Rivers became the 5th youngest player to pass for 30,000 yards in his career. He is the 37th quarterback to reach that plateau. Here is some stats from those 30,000 yards. Antonio Gates has caught 6,375 of those yards. 43 players have caught a pass from River during his career. Nick Hardwick who has been the center for Rivers his entire career has snapped the ball either with Rivers under center or from the shot gun 24,500. Rivers and company are off this week but Sunday week they are in Washington which is about as close as he can get to us. Sure would like to be there. We are almost at the halfway point and who do you think will win the Super Bowl. I don't think Denver is as good as their record. Kansas city is still a mystery to me but they sure do have a good defense. New England will win their division but not much else. If I had to pick a winner right now I would take New Orleans. They not only have a great quarterback but a defense that can stop most folks. Well that's my predictions for this week probably somebody else next week.