Sweet Play of the Week No. 2 Recently TMQ called for more trick plays involving quarterbacks: Denver, Atlanta and now Baltimore have answered. It's my own little Christmas present! Leading 7-0, the Nevermores faced second-and-7 on the Green Bay 11. Kyle Boller split wide left; receiver Mark Clayton lined up as quarterback; Packers defenders were shouting about Boller, assuming the ball would go back to him; the trick was that Clayton took the snap and ran right for the touchdown.

This sweet play of the week was brought to you by Mark Clayton, rookie Baltimore Ravens wide receiver from - wait for it - the University of Oklahoma, the same university TMQ has gone out of its way to unfairly criticize for nigh on three years, as noted here, here, and here.

In TMQ's October 26 entry, Easterbrook said:

So here's my rule. A team can never be accused of running up the score in the first half. But once into the third quarter, teams above the 31-32 point margin that are still passing, faking kicks, calling time-outs and so on are running up the score.

This, of course, was two years after he accused Oklahoma of running up the score in the first half. This was pointed out to TMQ's "reader animadversion" link as requested, garnering guilty silence from TMQ, its penance for having angered the Football Gods. By the way, using the BCS's old "strength of schedule" formula, the schedule 2005 Oklahoma schedule TMQ would have called "football factory" would have been rated the toughest of all 119 Division I NCAA football teams.

Ye Gods.

Update: TMQ's "All-Unwanted All-Pro" team of great players who were not wanted by their original clubs (or let go multiple) times includes, on its second string, Oklahoma's Corey Ivy as the "special teamer," whatever that means. Ivy is in his 4th year in the NFL, so he didn't play on the teams that TMQ accused of "running up the score." Mark Clayton did.