Conservative FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson thinks that Michael Vick(notes) should have been executed for running an illegal dogfighting ring. Carlson made the stunning comment while guest-hosting Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday. The topic was Barack Obama's phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie:

That seems rational. It's the old "eye for an eye, hand for a paw" code. (And, c'mon, if Vick should be executed for anything it's that awful performance he gave in the Eagles Tuesday night loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Kidding.)

[Related: Michael Vick: 'I would love to get another dog in the future']

We could spend all day ripping apart Carlson's assertion (the "I'm a Christian ... but" line is a sure sign we're headed toward absurdity), but then we'd have to act like it was a legitimate suggestion. Plus, it would also force us to assume that Carlson, an avid hunter, actually believes Vick should have been sent to the chair for the dogfighting and didn't say that simply

On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles will play the first Tuesday game in the NFL since 1946. The fact has been repeated in nearly every article about the controversial, delayed game and leads to the natural follow-up query: Why were they playing Tuesday games back in 1946?

Turns out it's for the same reason we're having a Tuesday game this year: bad weather. The New York Giants and Boston Yanks were set to open their 1946 regular seasons on Monday, Sept. 30 at Braves Field in Boston, but a torrential downpour forced the teams to move the game to Tuesday.

Mental Floss quotes that day's New York Times: “Waiting until early afternoon for a change in conditions, Owner Ted Collins of the Yanks and Stout Steve Owen, the Giants’ coach, agreed to put the contest over until tomorrow night.” The game was moved to Tuesday, which was not unheard of back in the days when stadiums were shared by a number of teams and travel was unreliable. A total of 21 Tuesday games had

To call this play from "Monday Night Football" a bad snap would be to suggest that the ball was snapped at all. It came courtesy Todd McClure(notes) of the Atlanta Falcons, who was trying to get the ball to Matt Ryan(notes). If the Falcons quarterback was lined up in the shotgun, the snap was a .22.

It's like he intentionally left the ball in the center of the field, like a referee in a water polo match or Terrell Owens(notes) that time he slammed the ball on the Dallas star. It wasn't a snap so much as it was a dribble.

McClure later talked about it to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

"The nose of the ball got caught on the turf. [...] I feel just awful about it. That has never happened to me before and of all the games for it to happen ... I put the team in a terrible position. I just felt awful. A terrible feeling."

The center shouldn't beat himself up too badly. The snap was awful and led to a New Orleans touchdown, but Atlanta took the lead later in the game, so it's not as if

It's believed that as many as 15 million people play fantasy football worldwide. Given those numbers, the following scenario undoubtedly played out hundreds of times across the globe late Sunday afternoon:

After an up-and-down season, a fantasy team quarterbacked by Peyton Manning(notes) was playing in a league championship game. With the Colts running out the clock late, the owner figured Manning was done for the day with a good, but not great, 16-point performance.

And then, out of nowhere, Manning called his own number on a naked bootleg and completely fooled the Oakland Raiders defense. With open field in front of him he started the slowest sprint you've ever seen to the end zone. Twenty, 10 -- he was going to score! Six fantasy points from the most unexpected of sources: Peyton's legs! Those points would be the difference between a fantasy title and having to listen to your buddy brag about his team for the next nine months. The title was yours! And then:

Despite what Dan

Some Philadelphia Eagles fans, including the most important one in the state of Pennsylvania, are incensed that the team's game against the Minnesota Vikings was postponed for a blizzard that didn't pack as much of a wallop as expected on Sunday night.

Governor Ed Rendell joined countless fans upset about the game's move to Tuesday when he told FOX News:

"It's an absolute joke. I was looking forward to this. It would have been a real experience. This is what football is all about. We're becoming a nation of wussies."

Forecasters had called for a blizzard to hit during the game and for up to 18 inches of snow to fall in the City of Brotherly Love. But the center of the storm tracked east of the city and by the time the game would have been over, there was only about seven or eight inches on the ground. In those conditions, the game could have been played.

[Related: President Obama calls Eagles owner to congratulate him on Vick signing]

As a fan who would have watched Eagles-Vikings

Michael Vick(notes) has been getting support from all sides during his road to redemption. He's now getting it from the leader of the free world.

NBC's Peter King reports that Barack Obama called Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie earlier this week to congratulate him for giving Vick a second chance after his release from prison. According to King, the president said that released prisoners rarely receive a level playing field and that Vick's story could begin to change that.

Forget your political allegiances or feelings about Michael Vick and take a step back to think about this. The sitting president of the United States went out of his way to publicly praise a man who, 3 1/2 years ago, many thought would never play again in the NFL. Even the most ardent believers in Vick couldn't have fathomed a turn-around like this.

In retrospect it seems obvious that Vick would get a second chance in the NFL, but it wasn't so clear-cut back when he was lying to the commissioner, getting

Chris Cooley(notes) is normally one of the most sure-handed pass catchers on the Washington Redskins and one of the best receiving tight ends in the NFL. You wouldn't know it by looking at this play, which might go down as one of the worst drops of the 2010 NFL season:

Wide open? Check.

Ball lofted in gently? Check.

No defender "footsteps" to merit caution? Check.

Steve Johnson's drop in Buffalo a few weeks ago was more meaningful than Cooley's, but at least Johnson's play had some degree of difficulty. He was mid-sprint, had just run 50 yards while shaking a defender and was catching a ball rifled through the air. We all sat on our couches and ripped Johnson, but his catch wasn't something a normal person could have easily made. Cooley's was.

[Rewind video: Another terrible dropped pass, this time in overtime]

The 'Skins tight end was spared on the next play when the Redskins scored a touchdown, but we have to imagine that floater will be haunting his dreams for the next few

Ed Reed(notes) was on fire Sunday, both figuratively and literally.

The Baltimore Ravens All-Pro had two interceptions, including the game-winner, in the team's playoff-clinching victory over the Cleveland Browns. Then his jacket caught fire while on the sideline because he was sitting too close to a heater:

Reed was unhurt. He later confirmed that his proximity to the heater is what caused the flames.

[Rewind: Stunning photos of a fire that incinerated NHL team's gear]

Though Ed neither stopped, dropped, nor rolled when his jacket caught on fire, his quick thinking in taking off the coat was a savvy, veteran move befitting of a future Hall of Famer. Somehow, I think there's a Baltimore fire safety PSA in his future.

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