Remember Joe DelSardo’s “jaw-dropping one-handed catch” against Rutgers that was SportsCenter’s number one play for October 23? Well, during this morning’s “Top Ten Plays” segment on SportsCenter, DelSardo’s catch came in as the second best play in all of October 2004. Once again, not bad… given that Pitt-Rutgers was a relatively unimportant, second-tier, blowout game in the middle of a month where the Boston Red Sox finally humiliated Chas’s New York Yankees and ended 86 years of basically just taking up space in the AL East.

I just watched the replay of Walt Harris’s weekly press conference on Fox Sports Pittsburgh (yeah, we get that in Altoona). Chas is right. It was pretty much your standard, mind-numbing Walt Harris performance… nervously glancing around the room at reporters as if they were police interrogators. Boring and even a little painful. The only interesting part was when fullback Tim Murphy came to the podium. He was charming, intelligent, and noticeably more well-spoken than his coach. You could almost feel the tension leaving the room. Murphy didn’t say anything revolutionary, but explained very intelligently how he will help defeat Syracuse’s excellent pass rush.

I’ll get the Pitt-Syracuse game in Altoona, so I’m happy.

Hail to this election just being over already. And hail to just watching the sun set… from my office desk at 4:30 PM…