Thursday Night Football: Patriots at Bears, and the Weekend’s Big Games

Folks, put the coffee down and turn up the volume. Tonight’s Avalanche vs Stars game in Dallas was the kind of Central Division hate-fest the schedule-makers wanted. Colorado held off a late Dallas push to win 3-2, and The Hairy Times’ own Andrew Hahn has confirmed the final. My brother Jim spent the night chained to a laptop covering baseball.…

Our MNF recap starts with this: the 49ers are 6-0, but they had to sweat for it. San Francisco led 20-3 at halftime at Levi’s Stadium on Monday night, then watched Washington claw back before rookie Romello Height sacked Jayden Daniels on fourth down in the final minute to seal a 23-17 win. Jim and Harry both picked the 49ers,…

The Denver Broncos didn’t just lose their season opener to the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football — they got absolutely demolished, embarrassed, and exposed in a 31-10 beating that has everyone in Broncos Country wondering if this team is a contender or a pretender.

My brother Jim and I went at it over on Sports By The Balz in Jim vs. Harry: After Week 4, Who’s a Real Super Bowl Contender?, and like always, I walked away calmer and more right than he did. This is my reply, and it comes with my Falcons vs Saints prediction for tomorrow night. I left out the…

Saturday, Oct. 3, was a rough night for Colorado college football. The Buffaloes lost at home to Texas Tech, the Rams got run over by Oregon State in Fort Collins, and Harry Balz has to answer for last week’s Jim vs. Harry predictions. That leaves one question hanging over Boulder: what is Deion Sanders‘ future at Colorado after another lopsided…

Three wins, two losses, and half of Denver already wants to panic. Not me. Jim can sweat the Broncos; I’ll keep my eyes on the ice. Here’s the Colorado Avalanche record right now. After the Saturday loss to Toronto, the Avs are 3-2-0 and have lost two of their last three. That’s six points from five games. It’s not a…