October 15-16

Not much exciting happened last weekend. Actually, on Thursday and Friday, Tom W and I went to a couple of high school football games. They were both pretty ugly blow-outs. Lincoln beat Mt. Tahoma 56-0 and the Puyallup Vikings beat up on Jefferson 45-9. Puyallup is always one of the state football powers. It's been the high school for the Huard's (Damon, Brock and Luke), Chad Eaton and Dane Looker among others. I also believe it's where Olympic swimming gold medalist, Megan Quann, went to high school. But I still like going to at least a couple high school games each year.

As for Saturday night's hockey game at the Key...it wasn't all that exciting. The Saskatoon Blades came into town and shutout the Thunderbirds 3-0. For what it's worth, Brian Bridges looked pretty good in the net for Seattle. But once again, the Thunderbirds failed miserably to score on their power play. I have no love or hate for the T-Birds, but it really is getting sad watching their ineptitude while a man-up. It just seems like nobody wants to take the shot. And it even often looks like nobody out there on the ice even WANTS the puck. When they get it, they handle it like it's a live hand gernade. Perhaps that's why they don't want to take a shot...they're scared that if they do, the puck might explode like a gernade (lol).

Former T-Bird, Aaron Bader, scored the first (and eventual game winning) goal and later added an assist. What did the Thunderbirds get for Bader in the first place? Probably another 6th round draft pick like they do just about everyone else.

The Seahawks game was a laugher. 41-10 games tend to make you double-over in laughter. Shaun Alexander had another ho-hum four touchdown game along with well-over 100 yards running. And former Oregon Duck, Mo Morris, also ran for 104 yards on the day. I really hope that the Seahawks sign Shaun to a long-term deal here. He's one of the top two RB's in the NFL (along with Tomlinson of San Diego). But if they don't, then I'm more than comfortable with Morris back there. He's not as flashy as Alexander (and Shaun's not that flashy in the first place). But he's still an excellent north-south runner.

And what exactly was Ken Hamlin doing in a Pioneer Square bar at almost 2:00am after the game? I'm not passing judgement on why he got into it with the guys he did. Stuff like that could happen at the McDonalds in Bellevue at 2:00pm on a Sunday. But you gotta use your head a little more. Now our best d-back is probably out for the season...if not the rest of his career...due to a stupid lapse of reason. Hopefully the rest of the team will learn from that mistake.