Another great week at Best Damn.  We aired our Top 50 Fantastic Finishes and had some great guests like Falcons coach Jim Mora and Nate Newton.  Best Damn Staffer Bernie is back to break it down.

We've been airing a lot of our Top 50 shows over the past few weeks.  These lists have been pretty fun to put together, been well received, but have also caused a bit of controversy.  It's hard to please everyone.  When you're trying to whittle down sports history into 50 plays, some plays will get left out.  We felt that the plays we chose resonated with a broad audience more that the ones that didn't make it.

Seeing that I answer the viewer email, I know how passionate a lot of you are about your favorite plays.  If you have an emotional attachment to a sport/team/player you'll want to see your play on the list, so I understand why many of you were passionate about your favorites, but we couldn't accommodate everyone, including myself.

The greatest finish to a game that I ever saw was between my alma mater Syracuse and Virginia Tech at the Carrier Dome in 1998.  Tech was beating Syracuse all game. Donovan McNabb marches the Orange(men) down the field, converts a 4th and long with a QB keeper, then after a wild scramble in the backfield, somehow finds Stephen Brominski in the end zone for the winning score.  The place erupts and everyone storms the field.  The season was on the line, backs against the wall, and then a miracle touchdown with no time remaining to win it.  That's a great finish and it didn't even sniff the top 50. In fact, I bet if we had a top 200 show, I wouldn't be able to convince the producers to put it in the show.  But oh well, I don't need a list to validate how great a finish that was.

Here are some other random thoughts from the week:

Listening to Nate Newton talk this week leads me to believe he's genuinely remorseful for the mistakes that he made with drugs.  His time in prison seemed like a true rehabilitation for him.  I hope he can stay out of trouble; he seems like a real fun guy to be around.

Falcons Coach Jim Mora had some biting things to say about the media's treatment of Michael Vick's playing style.  He said if Vick were "blonde-haired and blue-eyed" then people wouldn't be as critical.  I don't think a lot of other white coaches would have the courage to say that on national TV.  I was very impressed.

Chris Rose will be hosting the BCS show for Fox.  He absolutely deserves the job and will be great at it. I've worked with him for around 3 years and he's as professional as they come and has very sharp insights into sports. 

Ok that felt a little gushy.  Sorry.

I've started to play Madden NFL 07 for Xbox 360.  Reggie Bush is already ridiculous.  I don't know where he's going to rank in the annals of great video game players but, man he's insane in this one.  But I almost threw the game out the window.  I'm playing with the Ravens and I'm up 28-16 on the Raiders with about 2 minutes left.  All I need to do is run out the clock.  I hand off  to Jamal Lewis... fumble. Raiders score.  I get the ball back, hand off to Jamal Lewis... fumble. Raiders score. I lose.  I swear the game cheats.

Speaking of games, in the next blog, I'll rank my top 10 video game players of all time.  In a shocker, Bo Jackson will NOT, I repeat, will not be #1.  He is one of my favorite athletes of all time.  His posters wallpapered my bedroom growing up, but alas, he doesn't top my list.

Check back next week to see the gamer list!