Around this time of year, media outlets LOVE looking back at the sports world year that WAS... NOT SPORTSBYFLETCH! What started out as The Year of The Dawgs (sUGAr Bowl stomping of Hawaii, an SEC Championship in BBall, a gymdawgs title, tennis title, preseason #1 in football), QUICKLY turned crappy (UGA's defense, Georgia Diamond Dawgs losing to a kid with a broken finger). So why look back? Let's look ahead to 2009 how about? LET'S DO THIS THING! My 2009 predictions:
Florida wins its second BCS title in 3 years after chopping (Can't win the) Big Game Bob and OU, especially with Demarco Murray out for the Sooners. And the worst part, Tim Tebow sticks around because he realizes no one will give a rip about his circumcising Philipino children in the NFL. Seriously, will Chris Berman give a rip about Tebow when his mancrush Brett Favre is still in the league? NO! Percy Harvin and Matt Stafford both go, but Tebow stays and Florida is INSTANTLY Preseason #1. Gosh I hate Florida.
UGA basketball will STILL STINK. (unless Felton gets the boot, which sadly he won't. That SEC Tournament championship gave him enough juice for this year.)
The Giants will face the Steelers in the Super Bowl and Big Ben will win another Super Bowl, thus bringing up the argument of (Should the Giants have traded Philip Rivers to the Steeler for Ben instead of to San Diego for Eli? Maybe Rivers can even be on a pregame show to discuss this?) But Big Ben won't really win it as much as the defense and Hines Ward. And the defense.
Padraig Harrington and Tiger will somehow get paired together for the first two rounds of Augusta and it is HARRINGTON who puts Tiger to shame. Hey, Tiger is suffering from the leg injury still. He gives it a go, but Sunday at Augusta is a Tiger-free zone. Paddy wins 3 straight majors. The debate is ON about #1.
The Hawks will make the playoffs, as a #6 seed. The team will win all three home games, but lose 4 on the road to Orlando and Dwight Howard. Then Mike Bibby will leave the team because I am the ONLY person in Atlanta that appreciates him in a Hawks uni. PEOPLE JOE JOHNSON IS NOTHING WITH A POINT GUARD LIKE BIBBY OR NASH! Oh and the Lakers upset Boston in seven games to win the title.
Roger Federer wins the Aussie Open as Nadal falls early. But he recovers does Nadal to win the French....over Novak Chokeavic.
Tiger and Sergio both win a combined ZERO MAJORS this year, but Phil phinally wins his US Open.
UNC beats a #4 seed to win the NCAA men's bball championship, but for WHATEVER reason people don't have a problem with the fact that the SECOND BEST team in the country from the regular season lost in the Sweet 16 round because HEY, IT'S A TOURNEY! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF CFB HAD ONE? NO! Then the top two teams wouldn't automatically play for the title if the BCS had a tournament. But after this season when UNC beats Arizona State, I want you to tell me that ASU is the second best team in for the 2008-09 season. PLEASE. And I will call you an idiot. MORE BCS!
The RedSox beat the Yankees in the ALCS and the wild card Mets beat the Phillies in the NLCS while the Braves finish 3rd in the NL East. The Red Sox then beat the Mets in 5 games.
The Detroit Lions take Matt Stafford with the #1 pick and he DOESN'T lead the Lions to the playoffs, but instead a 5-11 record because teams quad-cover Calvin Johnson aka HIS ONLY WEAPON! Then IJ tries to tell me on the Score Atlanta Sunday Scoreboard show that Matty Ice will be the better pro. OR THE LIONS ARE CURSED. I hope Stafford goes to the Chiefs!
The Thrashers will still suck and Kovy gets traded to the Left Coast (San Jose or Anaheim maybe?) Doesn't matter. Detroit wins the Cup on Vs. and NO ONE WATCHES!
Bill Cowher is hired to coach the Redskins. And Jason Campbell is promptly cut.
Dabo Sweeney is fired after his only season to clear the way for Tommy Tuberville, but Tubs instead takes the Miami job. Dabo is rehired......
Finally, the Georgia Bulldogs football team in 2009. After losing in Stillwater to the Pokes of Oklahoma State to open the schedule, UGA rips off several wins behind the QB tandem of Joe Cox and Aaron Murray (who will get to play MUCH more after the OSU game). Suddenly, after an off-week where the team prepares for Florida, everyone, INCLUDING myself, is thinking that UGA can knock off #1 Florida (hey our defense is playing much better. This juco DE will get to Tebow like they did two years ago! The running game with DJax and CThomas is REALLY clicking! AJ Green CANNOT BE STOPPED! How freaking good is Quinton Banks-people DON'T GO ACROSS THE MIDDLE! Curran is BACK BABY! DEXTER MOODY IS JUST A FRESHMAN! Our Oline just DOESN'T give up sacks! And I could run through those holes!). but then the Kool-aid gets flushed down the toilet as Tebow scores 4 TDs and UGA is bumped back to the Capital One Bowl for a second straight year. PENN STATE! YEAH!
The Gators meanwhile beat down Ole Miss in the SEC Title game before Tebow picks up his second Heisman(for career achievement) and the Gators prepare to face Colt McCoy and Texas in the title game in 2010. In a big rumor though, Notre Dame fires Charlie Weis in the hopes that Urban wins his third title, realizes that Tebow is about to check out and will jump to the Golden Dome....WHICH HE DOES. Florida then hires Spurrier.
But that is 2010. And I will save that for NEXT year.....
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