Jim Haslett and Gary Kubiak deserve our sausage. Wait ... we didn't phrase that right. Haslett and Kubiak coached both their teams to win #1 on the season, leaving the lowly Bengals and Lions as the remaining winless teams. Heretofore, we hand over the honorary First Brat to both men, along with a few cold ones.

The Texans won on Matt Schaub's quarterback draw with 3 seconds remaining while the Rams used the leg of Josh Brown to nail a 49 yard field goal as time expired. Call us biased homers if you wish, but we're going to give an entire case of beer to Haslett this morning along with his honorary munchies.

There is absolutely no reason the Rams should have gone in to Fed Ex Field and defeated one of the top teams in the NFC. Somehow they did, though. In his postgame interview, Haslett provided more energy and passion than Scott Linehan did his entire tenure as head coach. For that, we salute you, Jim Haslett.

Now go fine and suspend Richie Incognito.



October 13

1942 - Jerry Jones, professional oil tycoon and Dallas Cowboys owner, is born into the world. At 66 years old, Jerry currently holds the world record of the oldest living man to have received a botox injection, teeth whitening, and mystic tan within 2 hours of time.

1967 - The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129. Oakland "Oaks"? Insanely clever. Next to "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim," this has to go down as one of the all-time worst professional sports team names.

1971 - The first night game in World Series history is played at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium between the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates. Those were some pretty uniforms - and even prettier sideburns, Mr. Alley.


Tom Jackson, ESPN - Practicing tantra has proved beneficial for Mr. Jackson, who can now hold his moment of ecstasy for 2.5 seconds, up from his personal best of 1.0 seconds.





He probably looks familiar to you, the only difference is that the camera missed out on the wildly popular "Sea-Fence" and got the disgruntled Hawks pose instead.



Honestly, we don't blame Big Lo for being dejected. We'd be in a similar boat if our main offensive centerpieces for the afternoon included Charlie Frye, Julius Jones and Koren Robinson.



Really not a better way to recap the Dodgers' 7-2 win over the Phillies in Game 3 than through a beautifully complex headline.



Sure, it may look awfully generic on the exterior, but a scan of the text causes us to offer cyber high fives to the SI dot com department. Clever.



The Monday Football Column - the voices in Tony Romo's head are getting louder and louder. Also, for the first time ever, we get a glimpse of the NFL's newest entertainment venture, the NFL Car Experience.

Inside the Home of a Gunslinger - You'll never be able to guess what we discovered inside the Green Bay home of Brett Favre thanks to some recently released photos.

Sports Nation Poll - Linda Cohn now, or Linda Cohn 10 minutes ago?