What a day in the NFL, with seemingly half of the games coming down to the last play. The Vikings, for the second week in a row, played a generally awful game but won thanks to a fortuitous pass interference call. It's pretty humiliating to trail the Detroit Lions 3-2 at the half, but hey, a win is a win is a win- and at 3-3, the Vikings have a share for the NFC North lead.
The Eagles also got a win ahead of their bye week, scoring a lot in the second half for the first time this year to beat the Niners in San Francisco, 40-26. The team may have given up an embarrassing blocked-field-goal-return-for-a-touchdown at the end of the first half, but redeemed themselves by finishing the game with an interception return for a touchdown.
Best of all for the team, after a week of gloom-and-doom, the Redskins and Cowboys both lost, putting them just a game ahead of Philly.
I noticed throughout the week that despite the Phillies being two wins from the World Series, the chatter on sports talk radio was still about 90-10 Eagles/Phillies, both because negativity better lends itself to radio, and because more people care about the Eagles in this town. After Sunday, in which the Eagles won but the Phillies lost Game 3 of the NLCS, we'll see if that reverses itself.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 13, 2008 12:22 AM