500 and 50,000

What's sports viewing like on a Sunday afternoon and evening without the Twins or the Vikings?

Pretty much a relaxed bliss.

Though the Denver Broncos game was not broadcast, it was pretty easy to keep up with Manning's pursuit of 500 touchdown tosses. And how cool is it that the OTHER great quarterback from this era, Tom Brady, on the same day, joined the 50,000 yards passing club?

With baseball, it's pretty much a given that really cool milestones happen on the same day. With football, it's an amazing happening. That's it Brady AND Manning makes it even cooler.  Football will never be as cool as baseball when it comes to record pursuits, but yesterday's quarterback karma will be hard to beat.

Speaking of baseball, the Royals did the unthinkable yesterday. They finished off their sweep of the Angels yesterday. That's right, they swept them in three straight games AFTER beating Oakland in their wild card, sudden-death playoff game on Tuesday. That's four straight thrillers and two series wins from a team that hasn't even tasted playoff ambrosia for 4 decades.

Go KC!

And on the other side of the American League playoffs, the Tigers, the team that eeked out a division title FROM the Royals just a week earlier for the privilege of facing the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the division playoffs, got swept themselves yesterday. The division leader is done for the season while the division runner-up is still alive and kicking ready to face the Orioles in the league championship series.

Baseball is sweet.

And the best part of yesterday's sports' scene? The Lions and Bears lost. That means the Vikings after five weeks of the season are only ONE game behind division leading Green Bay and Detroit, tied for second place in the NFC North with the Bears.  With the season nearly 1/3 over, the Vikings still have hope. And Bridgewater has a full week of ankle healing ahead of him.

Bliss indeed.