Wildcard weekend

When thinking about what I was going to write about this evening I had so much to choose from out of all this weekends action. The FA cup and the handball incident, transfer gossip, Murray on form and ready to win in Aus, Warne fighting in the Big bash and Sky Sports declaring they will show live NBA for the remainder of the season.

I'm going with what was the highlight of my weekend. I have watched every minute of wild card weekend and while there might not be any shocks like Luton in the FA cup it was so captive. First of all a big well done to sky sports, Kevin Cadle, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Reinebold there coverage and insight into the games was magnificent.

Those of you that follow my blog and twitter will know I went 4 for 4 in picking the winners so the results did not surprise me. That's not to say there was no drama and the quality of football was nothing short of great. I texted a friend during the half time of the Washington Seattle game and I said it was probably the best game of football I have ever watched.

If I take this great game first, I thought it had everything. Two solid fundamental teams who have employed a new offence successfully. While the Skins jumped out to a two TD lead I stand by something I said last week that the Seahawks defence is for real. Following the two touchdowns they stiffened up and started making plays using their speed and pressure they get from their front four. The big question coming out of this game surrounds RGIII health, would the Skins have been able to win this with a fully fit RGIII. Well I think we may get a repeat of this match up in future playoffs for now I hope he gets better quickly. Final point on this game Morris and Lynch are fantastic runners, they are both multi dimensional, run hard and can go the distance. I really enjoyed watching them do their stuff and its good to see teams can still lean on their run game. Atlanta next for Seattle and I think we may get our first upset here.

The game before just 28 miles away in Baltimore number 52 played his last game in Ravens stadium. Just watching on TV you could tell the stadium was packed with emotion and Lewis delivered just as all greats do. There where doubts before hand as to how affective he would be as he only tore his triceps 3 months ago. However the football Gods are still smiling on Lewis he lead the team in tackles, had an opportunity at an interception and was even part of the offence for the final snap in Baltimore this season. This is one fairy tale I personally hope ends with him on top of a podium in New Orleans.

Tonight is the BCS national championship I'm taking Alabama to win back to back national championships. Probably will do some sort of review tomorrow on the game. Alabama win.