Chalk this up to an unfortunate slip of the tongue, but during last night’s Coyotes-Red Wings game Versus announcer Brian Engblom called Detroit’s Jiri Hudler “Hitler,” then quickly corrected himself. Eerily enough, yesterday would have been Adolf Hitler‘s 122th birthday.

(H/T to Deadspin)

Phil Simms joined Chris Russo on SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio on Monday and the CBS commentator discussed his altercation with Desmond Howard at the NFL Experience in Dallas.

Chris Russo: “Let me just ask you this on this whole thing with Desmond Howard. Everybody is paying attention to it. It sounds like he made a big deal about some sort of physical altercation; it was an argument but no chance of a physical altercation. What was going on with this thing on Saturday at this NFL Experience thing?”

Phil Simms: “Well, not really going to say anything about it except, um, you know, I don’t know what to say.”

Russo: “Are you annoyed at Howard making this public?”

Simms: “Well, of course I am. But it is what it is. It’s a great lesson learned and of course I’m not excusing myself. You know, I’ve got to know better. It’s a new Read more

Major League Baseball, you have a problem.

Last night’s Monday Night Football game featuring two backup quarterbacks in Kerry Collins and Trent Edwards drew a 7.2 over night rating, which was higher (6.5) than Game Three of the American League Champion Series.

Not even the New York Yankees, baseball’s most popular team, was enough to beat the NFL head-to-head in one of the worst MNF matchups since TBS started airing the League Champion Series in 2007 between Tennessee and Jacksonville.

Did everyone have Chris Johnson (Thanks for nothing, Jacksonville) on their fantasy team last night and that’s why you couldn’t flip over to watch Cliff Lee dominate the Yankees?

Move over, baseball. Football is officially king in the United States.