Day 208

• Oh, forgot the Heat won Game 3 of the NBA Finals to at least extend the series for some more ABC revenue.

More NFL fun, some of this from NFL Communications:

• The NFL has had FIVE comebacks of at least 2 TD+2's, 16 points, in the first four weeks.  It is the first time in the history of the league there has been at least one 2 TD+2 comeback in each of the first four weeks.
• Russell Wilson has 16 touchdown passes this year -- typing Peyton Manning in 2013 for the record through four games.  Seattle is 4-0.
• And partially thanks to this:  (Remember to check:  Who has the ball here?)
  

Hi friends. Why is this considered a first down?? pic.twitter.com/tJWuWdJqzF

— Kyle Maskson (@KyleAMadson) October 4, 2020

• Joe Burrow of Cincinnati is the first rookie quarterback in history with three consecutive 300 yard passing games.  Cincinnati won one of those games and tied another.
• Dak Prescott has 1690 yards through four games, an NFL record for the statistic.  Too bad his team sucks AND is getting screwed.  They're 1-3 in a division in which the four teams have each played four games and the teams have totalled THREE wins and a tie.  And of those three, one of them was intradivisional.
• Tom Brady was the winning player on his 222nd NFL regular-season game, a new record.
• He also became the 3rd NFL quarterback with 30 or more 4-touchdown games.  (Drew Brees has 36, Peyton Manning 35)
• Odell Beckham Jr. had three touchdowns today against the Cowboys -- 2 receiving, and a 50 yard rushing TD.  4th WR in the last 21 years to have that stat (2 rec TD, 1 rushing).
• Highest known average for a week I could find was 53.69 -- the 859 point week (Week 14 2013).  We're over half a point above THAT for the week.  And Kansas City and a Green Bay-Atlanta game with a Vegas line total of 57 still to play!
• The 57, if it holds, matches the highest Vegas total of the year (last week with Seattle vs. Dallas, which went over).
• One of the largest post-game NFL brawls in years marred the Rams-Giants aftermath yesterday, as a personal beef between Jalen Ramsey of the Rams and Golden Tate of the Giants degenerated into a post-game melee, including Ramsey waiting for Tate outside the locker room area.  Neither player is expected to be suspended (WHY???  Given the COVID-19 protocols, this can't have been good for anybody!).  Apparently, the fight is a FAMILY SQUABBLE -- Ramsey's the father of two of Tate's nieces, but Ramsey dumped Tate's sister for a Las Vegas dancer.
  

Some more important news:

• Two more Sunday positives for the Titans -- meaning 18 in this outbreak, another player and another coach (9 players, 9 staff in this outbreak).  None today, however.
• And it appears that New England and Kansas City are clean enough that they will play tonight.  The Pats will travel to Kansas City today, separated by those close to Newton in one plane and the rest of the team in another, leaving from different airports. 
• Conor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers has tested positive for the coronavirus, it was revealed Monday night.
  

Other stuff:

• ESPN, for this year, has cancelled two of it's "O&O" bowls, the Bahamas Bowl and the Hawaii Bowl.  The Redbox Bowl in San Francisco was previously called off this summer.