Monday, January 19, 2009

Winners and Losers for last week

Please accept my apologies for this tardy post. But anyway, here it goes.

Winner of the Week: Chesley B "Sully" Sullenberger III
By now, we should all know who "Sully" is. Sully did an incredible job of landing a jet into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia airport last week. All 155 people onboard survived. The preliminary cause of the downed plane has been stated as birds or geese colliding with an engine.

Sully, as the story goes, waited until every last passenger was off the plane before he left himself.

I don't know what was worse for the passengers...the thought of the plane going down or the thought of getting out into freezing water. Either way, Sully and everyone who helped rescue the 155 onboard are all winners.

Loser of the Week (from a couple weeks ago is finally getting his due): Rey Maualuga of USC

Prior to the start of the Rose Bowl, Maualuga went up to sideline reporter Erin Andrews and did a little dance. It was a classless move for which he later texted and called Andrews to apologize.

1 comment:

Connie said...

It was so amazing to me that everyone survived from that plane crash. That's a miracle all those aboard will live to tell about.