Day 542

• Your COVID "Duh" Moment of the Day:  Tom Brady reported he came down with the coronavirus after the Buccaneers' Super Bowl parade.
• Brady also believes the NFL will have more problems with COVID this year than last, especially as the NFL tries to market itself as "Fans are back!!  Join us!!!!"  Duh
• Dallas Cowboys' Zack Martin is a COVID positive and out for Week 1.  That is the sixth COVID positive on the team in 16 days, with three more close contacts.
• Today is the end of the PGA Tour season.  A handicapped Tour Championship wraps up today.  Strokes were given to the top finishers in the Fed Ex Cup points in this tournament, with them, combined with the four rounds in Atlanta, determining who wins $15,000,000 and the season title.  Patrick Cantlay led by two at the start of play today, and won the $15,000,000 and the season championship by one shot over Jon Rahm of Spain.
• Everyone jacking off to college football, not realizing there MAY BE two relevant teams this year.  To give you an idea of how far Alabama is ahead of everyone else, they were 18.5 point favorites over a mid-teens ranked Miami team.
• They won 44-10.  Play with the best, or go down like the rest.  Powerful recruiting message.
• And as for Clemson:  They lost at home to Georgia, 10-3.  Georgia and Alabama will not meet until the SEC title game.
• And sounds like Pedo State is getting at least a secondary push in the Big Ten -- 16-10 winners at Wisconsin.  No mean feat, except when you realize that the refs ignored two holding/pass interference calls in the endzone in favor of Sandusky's Boys, after which Penn State blocked the ensuing field goal.
• If Ohio State and Oklahoma are #3 and #4, don't even bother playing them with Alabama and Georgia.  Oklahoma (note, no D in Oklahoma) needed everything they had on offense to escape a hurricane-relocated and distracted Tulane!  And I already showed you what Ohio State needed to get past Minnesota.
• Another All-Pro NFL left us on Saturday:  Pittsburgh's Tunch Ilkin -- 12 years with the league and two Pro Bowls...  ALS.
  
• We lost Willard Scott yesterday.  Long-time Today Show weatherman, spent many years saluting centearians by showing pictures and announcing 100-year old people on their birthdays.  The world was unfair, though -- he didn't get that far.  He was 87.
• The Brazil-Argentina World Cup Qualifier Derby in Brazil has been stopped by Brazilian authorities, five minutes in.  They want to DEPORT four of the Argentinian players for COVID rules.  More on this as it develops, maybe...
• Four big Premier League stars were supposed to be deported out of Brazil for COVID rules, but they did not make themselves available to do so.  So they only started the process six minutes into the match.
• There is also conflicting report that COMNEBOL, to accommodate the match schedule, was able to get an agreement which would allow the necessary travel and the like.  HOO BOY...
• The game will not be played.  The COMNEBOL Disciplinary Committee will determine what happens to it.
• In other qualifier COVID news, Zack Steffen is out for the USA's match tonight with Canada due to COVID.
• And Brazil-Argentina wasn't the only Qualifier abandoned today.  Guinea and Morocco could not play today -- Guinea has fallen to a coup.
• In a move many ex-NFL fans might see welcome:  Troy Apke has made NFL history.  He's the first White cornerback to make an NFL roster (he played free safety the last three years) in 19 years, according to MSN.  It's a small in-road, but, to many in the KKK/fascist White Right, a necessary one...