Now since it's Tuesday let's continue with the internet's most cursory and desultory football wrap-up, Pump Fake (I thought it might as well have a title to help distract from the lack of any interesting content). The game between the Vikings and Colts last night was a great Monday match-up for a change, and though I ended up rooting for Minnesota once they started getting things going towards the end of the first half, the ultimate victory by Indianapolis was good news for my Packers, who can now move into first place the NFC North with a win against the Vikings next week. My team in the AFC did not fare so well this week, not only losing their second game of the season, to Buffalo no less, but more devastatingly losing Chad Pennington to a shoulder injury for the next 2-4 weeks, and his backup is named Quincy (and nicknamed, by me at least, the Unforced Fumbler). So it’s good to have the team whose bandwagon I am always ready to jump on whenever they start looking good, the Pittsburgh Steelers, emerging as the best team in the league right now. First they ended the Patriots’ unbeaten streak last week, and then this week they turned around and did the same thing to the only other unbeaten team left, the Eagles. Again, Pump Fake Player Of The Week kudos go to rookie QB Ben Roethlisberger, undefeated in this first six starts of his professional career. The Chargers are surprisingly solid so far this year, too, and I could almost add them to my favorites mix if they would just go back to their old powder blue uniforms every week (and if the parents of their quarterback hadn’t made the all too common mistake of thinking that Drew is a first name). Last but not least (see what I mean about the lack of content in this feature?) Dave Wannstedt is packing up that throwback moustache and leaving Miami, reportedly opting to go live in a van with Ricky Williams and get righteously baked every day rather than serve out the rest of his contract. Here's the guy who's going to step in to lose the remaining seven games. And with that, the clock expires on another edition of Pump Fake.
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