Titans win!

So while World Series is on hold due to rain, at least for now, I would like to take this time to rub the Titans' 31-21 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Casey's face.

Actually that would be mean, so instead I'm going to talk about the team's odd rise to success.

It's called the Ewing Theory, you take away a much hyped young quarterback in Vince Young and put in grizzled veteran Kerry Collins and you have the Ewing Theory in a nutshell. Here's the official definition of it...

-A star athlete receives an inordinate amount of media attention and fan interest, and yet his teams never win anything substantial with him (other than maybe some early-round playoff series).

- That same athlete leaves his team (either by injury, trade, graduation, free agency or retirement) -- and both the media and fans immediately write off the team for the following season.

This is a clear cut case since Vince Young was given the moon after his Rose Bowl victory over USC. However, since coming into the pros his career has been less than spectacular. I'm surprised they didn't retire his number before he even started playing for the Titans. Young is a pouter though. Remember when he pouted because he didn't win the Heisman Trophy? Remember when he pouted when fans booed him and he had to be coaxed back into the game by Titans head coach Jeff Fisher? Remember when his mom came to the rescue during his recent stretch of mental direst? All pouting. Nobody wants to play for a guy like that.

Kerry Collins on the other, well I mean here is a guy that has had to battle back from the absolute depths of battling with alcoholism. Heck, he even got punched in the face for a racial slur he made against a teammate (he said that he meant it as a way to "bond" with teammates jokingly). After getting cut by the Carolina Panthers, playing one year with the New Orleans Saints and getting a second chance with the New York Giants, Collins led the G-men to a Super Bowl where they lost to the Ravens. It was one of those feel-good stories, except that if you look at old photos of Collins his long greasy hair makes you wince.

Then Collins dropped of the face of the earth again. The Giants weren't that good and neither was Collins. I remember watching MNF with my friend in a game that saw Collins lead a late-game drive to take the lead for New York. However, the Giants then gave up a touchdown that sent it to overtime and the camera cut to Colins who was sitting on the bench with a face that basically said...

"I have to go out there again and play?!?!"

The Giants lost that game. Collins then went to Oakland... ugh... and then signed with the Titans as sort of a vertan fill-in while the team brought along Vince Young.

Well so far thats panned out as well as a chocolate fountain at a Jenny Craig convention.


However, he's gotten a second... third, and fourth chance in Tennessee and its seems to be working so far, and Jeff Fisher is the kind of coach that can make this sort of move.

Heck, he survived the loss of Steve McNair and Eddie George, two staples for the Titans.

Look for Tennessee to make another solid run in the playoffs with Collins at the helm, I'm thinking that Young's days as a Titan are not over, but they are in question.