Bucket Full of Crazy

Ran 4 miles on the treadmill yesterday.  First 2 at my normal pace and then did 2 miles worth of intervals.  Pretty sweaty stuff it was. 

But more importantly - there's a lot on my mind.  I'm pretty sure that the only way to make sense of all the happenings in the NFL is to believe in the great conspiracy.   What does the league want most of all?  Manning vs. Manning in Archie's backyard for the Super Bowl.  So what do they do - 1) make sure Peyton lands in an AFC city.  2) make sure that New Orleans can't make it - think it's a coincidence that the home team has never made the Super Bowl?  Nope - the league clearly doesn't want it.  3) make sure the Jets are too busy dealing with internal turmoil to make it.  All done.  Now just wait for Tom Brady's wife to drive a wedge between him and his team.  Aaahhhhh.  It's all happening.  If I was Aaron Rodgers I would fake an injury before they come after him.

OK - maybe that is just a bunch of crazy.  What is equally crazy (but actually true) is that Brian Burke, the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, picked a fight with this guy

and is losing.  The man pictured above is Don Cherry and he is a Canadian icon.  He appears for about 4 minutes after the first period of Hockey Night in Canada (you thought we made up Football Night in America?  think again) and says all kinds of crazy jingoistic pro-Canadian stuff and then disappears until next week.  Their fight is not interesting, but it involves Cherry claiming (probably correctly) that Burke tried to get him fired.  Cherry can't be fired - he's as popular in Canada as Tim Tebow is in Denver.