-“The Sabres are playing well right now. But they are going to lose a game, and it’s going to be on Monday.” — Canadiens defenseman Janne Niinimaa

So said Niinimaa before his team became the latest victim at Bell Centre falling to 9-0 Buffalo 4-1. Maybe next time, the defenseman who’s been with Montreal three weeks will keep his mouth shut. So who is Buffalo’s next game against with history on the line? You guessed it. Against former Jack Adams winner a decade prior in Ted Nolan’s Islanders. If Buffalo wins, they’ll match the 1993-94 Maple Leafs for the best start in NHL history. So who thinks Nolan’s overachieving Isles will spoil the party at Nassau Coliseum this Thursday?

-Watching this Giants-Cowboys MNF game on ESPN is unbearable. Between the moronic Giants offense intro from media savvy ‘retiring’ Tiki Barber and the ridiculous Michael “Big Mouth” Strahan nicknames of his defensive teammates, I could tell early how annoying this idiotic ESPN telecast would be. Between that dopy Texas hat that goofball Joe Theismann wore during their celebrity interview with talented musician Hank Williams and all the ridiculous camera shots of the NFL’s fave media-ho Terrell Owens, it was just exactly the nightmare I envisioned when they landed the Monday Night Football package. Out of curiosity as the Giants lead 18-7 in a game they should’ve put away already. But if TO doesn’t get a couple of calls including one ridiculous gift interference when he was the one who pushed off on the replay which kept their only scoring drive alive, what does that say about Bill Parcells‘ Cowboys?

-Update: So it turns out this game is damaging to Big Blue as the fragile LaVarr Arrington left the game with a ruptured Achilles which basically means he’s done for the year. That’s a big blow in a game in which Osi Umenyiora also left banged up.

-Does anyone else find it comical that Parcells has already pulled an ineffective Drew Bledsoe and his replacement Tony Romo seems to be running a much smoother offense as evidenced by their second drive before TO turned into the goat by dropping an easy pass on 4th and 2? P.S. That was his fifth dropped pass this season according to the stat researchers at ESPN. More than he had the last couple of seasons.

-Just when you thought this telecast couldn’t get any worse, it does. While the Giants are moving the ball up 12 into Dallas territory, lead play-by-play man Mike Tirico is preoccupied interviewing former Dallas Cowboy star running back Emmit Smith. Look. I have a lot of respect for what Smith accomplished on the gridiron but when he’s being asked questions about his silly dancing career which has nothing to do with football, that’s out of bounds. It’s bad enough they’re conducting this during the game as Brandon Jacobs just overpowered a couple of Cowboys inside the 15. It’s disrespectful to viewers. Whatever happened to just broadcasting the game?
-If you haven’t checked out the talented Weird Al Yankovic’s new hilarious music video “White and Nerdy,” it’s a must:

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