The Page 2 notes. So good, and so good for you. …
On the off chance you’re wondering if the NFL’s popularity is waning, don’t. Every game this season has been sold out, a first in league history. The league has had 21 weekends since 1973 in which the local TV blackout was lifted in every NFL market.
Eight of those weekends have come this season. …
Yes, even the Raiders, Cardinals and Jaguars are selling out. …
Somehow, some way, the Steelers are 2-5. The last Super Bowl champ to open the next season with that record? The Broncos in 1999. …
Not that the Stillers are yesterday’s news, but four teams in NFL history have started 2-5 and made the playoffs. …
Did you know? One-win CU is plus-7 – 22-15 – in turnover margin, second-best in the Big 12 and 17th nationally. …
Memo to those questioning whether West Virginia or Louisville should get a crack at the national championship because they play in the Big East: What about the Big 12? The conference was 0-9 vs. top 25 teams and outscored 209-99 in those nine games. …
I don’t think we’re in the 1970s anymore, Toto. Or maybe you haven’t noticed that Oakland, Miami, Pittsburgh and Houston are in last place in their AFC divisions. …
Then again, maybe we are in the 1970s. At least I think that was Pat Summerall in the booth for the Bears-Niners game. …
This just in: Jags coach Jack Del Rio, reaching for every competitive edge he can get, hasn’t announced his starting quarterback for Sunday’s game vs. Tennessee. He’s believed to be considering David Garrard or any other quarterback not named Byron Leftwich. …
From the e-mail bag: “Jim, writing this e-mail because of the great influence you wield in all things sports related. Maybe you could nudge ABC/ESPN to change the ‘Monday Night Football’ booth lineup.” …
Yeah boy, I wield some big-time influence, all right. Those four touchdowns the Broncos scored Sunday? I drew up the plays for Shanny between bites of a doughnut in the press box. …
Whew. Talk about a tough crowd. Elsewhere in the e-mail bag: “Darrent Williams should be traded or cut immediately before the rest of the league figures out that throwing to his side consistently will result in 20-plus points a game.” …
It will consistently result in 20-plus points a game? In the immortal words of Dean Wormer, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. The Broncos hadn’t allowed more than 18 points all season before Sunday. …
The World Series is already over? And here I was, just getting ready to challenge Sean Casey to a race around the bases. …
Add Casey: Tigers manager Jim Leyland was asked by the Philly Daily News what it would take to give Casey the green light to steal a base. Said Leyland, “If I jump up in the air and never come down, he goes.” …
What’s a sadder commentary on the state of sports in the 21st century: Jalen Rose making $16.9 million this season, or the Knicks eating his salary to get rid of him? …
I see where the Knicks reached an undisclosed settlement with Larry Brown the other day. Let me guess. A lifetime supply of suitcases. …
By the way, best of luck to TNT’s Ernie Johnson, back in the studio after treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. …
I already miss Red Auerbach, but at least he didn’t live to see the Celtics Dancers. Not only that, he doesn’t have to listen to NBA players grumble about that “microfiber composite” basketball the league is using. …
So much for the notion the players can’t shoot the new-fangled ball. The Nuggets averaged 115.5 points per in the exhibition season and made 36.8 percent of their 3s. That’s considerably better than last season, when they finished 30th in the league from downtown.
Catch Jim Armstrong from 6-9 a.m. during “The Press Box” on ESPN 560 AM. He can be reached at 303-954-1269 or jmarmstrong@denverpost.com.
