Jeff Hart: Tuesday Linkfest for November 1, 2011

By: Jeff Hart | Posted: November 01, 2011

Did everyone have a good Ditkaween?

I know Philip Rivers didn’t. His performance last night was downright spooky! His fumble made me tremble! While some might have thought the Chargers were in position to enjoy the treat of an easy victory, they instead got Norv Turner’s favorite trick of a midseason collapse! Are we done with the Halloween stuff now? Enjoy this analysis of Rivers’ poor performance.

Okay, one more quick Halloween story. Is it possible that Peyton Hillis, reigning king of bad PR in Cleveland, no-showed a charity event last night? According to LeCharles Bentley: yes.

 Most of the kerfuffle surrounding Michael Silver’s excellent piece on how the league views the Tim Tebow experiment focuses on the anonymous Lions players trash-talking Tebow. It’s fun to focus on how mean those dirty Detroit Lions are, but that glosses over Silver’s most insightful point, one that I think gets to the heart of so much of the current Tebow phenomenon:

“While few NFL players seem to have a problem with Tebow on a personal level, I know plenty who are put off by the mythology and the holier-than-thou fan base that lionizes his every accomplishment and perceives negative depictions of his ability through a persecution-complex-tinted prism.”

Doesn’t that just perfectly summarize why so many people love to hate Tebow?

 Speaking of the dirty Detroit Lions: they aren’t just malcontents, they are bad influences. The Lions average nine penalties per game this season (7^th most in the league). But, Lions opponents have a whopping total of 98 penalties called against them. That’s 28 penalties higher than the next closest opponents-penalties number. Detroit just brings out the worst in everyone.

In sanctity of marriage news, Reggie Bush may be a home-wrecker. Juicy gossip sites are reporting that Bush could bear some responsibility for the Kardashian/Humphries divorce that everyone saw coming but, you know, not this soon.

Do we care? Not really. Would we care more if Reggie Bush was good at fantasy football? Maybe a little.

That reminds me, here are your weekly waiver wire suggestions. Choose carefully; there’s a good possibility you might stick with some of these players longer than Kardashian stayed with Humphries. 

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