TMQ: Black Friday has come and gone, Black Monday arriving early

Two new running items: Coach Cashiering Creep and the Parking Lot Theory of Officiating

Back in the day Tuesday Morning Quarterback railed against Christmas Creep. Then the world voted overwhelmingly in favor – Christmas radio stations playing before Halloween, Christmas decorations in stores in August heat, and so on. Each year the War on Christmas ends with unconditional surrender of attacking forces.

Christmas Creep is so bad one of your writer’s fav holiday traditions – the 1964 stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with Burl Ives voicing Sam the Snowman – aired on CBS last night. A Christmas special before December!

Incompetent NFL owners who need a coach — call Comet’s agent.

Maybe the Panthers can hire Comet the reindeer coach from the special. He’s the one who’s such a doofus that when Rudolph displays special athletic gifts, Comet kicks him off the sleigh team, declaring, “We won’t let Rudolph play in any reindeer games.”

This understanding of sports would be a perfect fit for the odious billionaire David Tepper (see below).

When Christmas Creep became ubiquitous I gave up on tracking it and proclaimed a larger Unfiied Field Theory of Creep -- that we’re jumping the gun on everything.

Now TMQ senses impending Coach Cashiering Creep.

Already two NFL head coaches, Josh McDaniels and Frank Reich, have been fired midseason, plus three coordinators fired.