AGRI Biz

á 1. I Wish That Shane Lechler Could Get The Respect That He Deserves á No, I haven't gone completely mad. I am using my first wish of the week on that much maligned NFL player, the punter. Not just any old punter, of course, but the one who just broke an all-time NFL record for the second season running, narrowly broke another (and only failed to do so because of his own ...

1. I Wish I Were As Tough As Steve Smith I have had my fair share of sporting injuries over the yearsùincluding breaking my arm twice. And, like everyone else who loves playing sports, I have played competitive games when I shouldnÆt haveùmany times, in fact. What impressed me about SmithÆs performance on Sunday wasnÆt just that he held onto that ball, it was that he came to ground with it. Anyone ...

1. I Wish the Bengals Everything I've never had much time for the Bengals. To my mind, they have in recent years become a team of woeful underachievers whose failings are not helped by an owner who has always seemed to favor personality over success or team harmony. Nothing that has happened these past couple of months has changed that view, and there is a certain hard-edged opinion which states that, in ...

1. I Wish the Browns Played Like That More Often I know this is going to sound strange, especially after some of the things I have said about them this year, but after seeing Cleveland grind out a victory over Pittsburgh, you have to wonder why none of that steel and determination has been around for the rest of the season. Beating the defending champions is never a feat that should go ...

á 1. I Wish I Could Believe That the NFL Was Serious about the Whole Concussion Thing á For my money, it is all very well saying that you are tightening the rules on when a player can return to the field after a head injury, imposing independent doctors to assess the risk of further injury and so on. However, until you make players wear a helmet which fits properly, all of this ...

1. I wish the Colts would change the script á Does anyone else feel like Colts' games are getting to be like a bad movie plot? There's only so many times a side can allow themselves to go in well behind at half-time, only to come out and steal the match in the second half, surely? Apart from being the storyline to every sports film ever made, it is also ...

1. I wish the NFL would just drop the whole 17/18 game season idea Yes, the NFL has one of the shortest seasons of any professional sport. But so what, it is also one of the biggest income generators, too. For every reason that Roger Goodell and company give for extending the season, there seems to be an equally good one against doing so. This, in itself, should be reason ...

á 1. I wish that the NFL understood Ochocinco á I've never been sure what to make of the guy myself, to be honest. For large chunks of the time, he comes across as the biggest idiot alive û the name change, the begging to be traded and so on. á On the other hand, he's one of the few players who has really worked out how to use modern technology to his advantage, and ...

This being the week that the NFL begins to switch from Monday night games to Thursday night games, there's something of a challenge in finding three things to wish for before the events of the weekend have fully played out or even come into the open. However, here goes: 1. I wish that the NFL would think ahead before scheduling matches á OK, on paper, the return of Mike Singletary to competition against ...

á 1. That the NFL ban Larry Johnson for a sensible amount of time á I don't know where to begin with this one. It is hard to even comprehend someone acting as stupidly as Johnson did last weekend. The Internet has been around long enough for even the biggest simpleton to realise that nothing you say on there can be regarded as private. To use it to hurl homophobic abuse and to ...