Christmas Sports

Jerome Simpson plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. His method of getting into the end zone to score a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals, was pretty unusual, but definitely worth a look above.

No Boxing day football for me this year. What we did get though was a three NBA games in a row and a big local derby in the NFL between Green Bay and Chicago Bears... on Christmas Day. Have to say I was pretty surprised that there was so much going on on Christmas Day. I kind of gave some of the basketball a go, but to be honest, I'm not really having it. You can't really deny the fact that someone leaping from 6 yards out to dunk a ball as hard as they can through a basket is pretty fun, but just strolling around taking it in turns to score doesn't really have me on the edge of my seat.

Green Bay, with a metro population of around 300,000 are pretty much the best team around at the moment. I love the fact that with the smallest metro population in the NFL they are more than likely to win back to back Superbowl's and that their local rival (Chicago) has a population of just under 10 million. Green Bay beat Chicago 35-21. Chicago did though, with two of their quarterbacks injured had a chap that a few weeks ago was coaching high school football and hadn't played NFL football for 4 years. He did a pretty good job considering, and may have earned a contract for next year. Good one Josh McCown.