Your “All The Sports, Ever!” Open Thread

Is there such a thing as too many sporting events on a given day? If so, today is that day. Just with respect to my own cheering interests Man City is playing while I cobble this piece together (they’re up 2-0 on Girona with goals scored by The Broom and a well-rested Haaland), the Sens play the disease-riddled Red Wings at 1pm EST and Sillycuse is on at 3pm.

Oh yeah, there’s a World Cup third-place thingy going on and five bowl games are being played including The Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl between Washington State and Fresno State. (no word yet on which team he’ll be playing for) There’s a smattering of juicy college basketball tilts and the good folks at NBC, are trying to keep up with some drone racing.  A true pornacopia of sportsball offerings-we are blessed.

To The Game!

Colts/Vikes:

-Welcome to the spotlight Jeff Saturday, coach of a high school team that was four games over .500 during your three years there. [snorts]

-I’ll be taking the over on that Justin Jefferson receiving prop of 94.5 yards. He’s the surest thing in the league nowadays.

-As I may have mentioned last week, Minny can clinch the NFC North with a W today.

-The Colts defensive front is fully healthy for the first time this year-they’ve got to get to Cousins in order to have a chance of an upset.

-A wee bit of history-this will be the 1,000th game played for the Vikings franchise. Fran Tarkenton came off the bench in their first game back in 1961 to get them the win. They are pro sport’s most successful team that hasn’t won a championship.

-The Colts pass D is surprisingly good-as concerns yards allowed they are third-best in the league.

Now get watching something, anything.