MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was the darndest of seasons, it was a really weird season for the Washington Commanders – new look (I like the new look), new team name (not crazy about the new team name), a costly new starting quarterback (starting in theory), a feisty, energetic back-up quarterback engineering a legitimate…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports And so this is playoffs And what have you done? I can just hear John and Yoko now. Do the Baltimore Ravens? What have they done? Well, they won 10 games somehow and they were in first place of the AFC North for most of the season until stumbling into…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I assure you every team in the AFC playoffs right now is relieved, delighted and thrilled the Pittsburgh Steelers are not in the playoffs with them, because nobody wants to play the Steelers right now. So maybe they’re not too flashy, but guaranteed, if you’re playing in the playoffs right…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin remains in critical condition and is likely to for some time, having suffered cardiac arrest last Monday night during what had been up to that point a so-called important football game. Yet Damar Hamlin sat up in his bed on Sunday and watched his Buffalo…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Washington Commanders will officially retire the jersey number 9 of Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen Sunday during halftime of their game against the Dallas Cowboys at FedEx Field; which, of course, means there will be more Cowboys fans in attendance to see it than Commanders fans. Jurgensen, now…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Bad weekend for the Harbaughs. And I’m not so sure Jim’s Michigan Wolverines deserved what they got; but John’s Baltimore Ravens surely got what they deserved, namely their fourth loss of the season in which they’ve held at least a 10-point lead in the second half. Yes, the Ravens got…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports What an ugly football game, yet what a thing of beauty for the Maryland football Terrapins, as they raised the mayonnaise in triumph with a 16-12 Duke’s Mayo Bowl victory over our old friends from North Carolina State Saturday afternoon in Charlotte. It was a true rock fight between the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So here we go again. The Baltimore Ravens host the Pittsburgh Steelers just three weeks after out slugging their longtime rival, 16-14, in Pittsburgh, as the Steelers missed a field goal and had another one blocked. Both teams had to use two quarterbacks, as both starters, Tyler Huntley and Kenny…
After all, a TV show is another TV show MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The legitimacy of #NFLTheTVShow has never been so far in doubt. What other conclusions are there to come to for even the most blindly faithful of the National Football League, given the absolutely horrible and inexcusable officiating that helps determine direct…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Hogs, of course, were the great offensive lines for the Washington Redskins from 1982 through 1991 under head coach Joe Gibbs and offensive line coach Joe Bugel that became the foundation of three Super Bowl championships for the franchise and made the offensive line a glamour position for football…
