Warriors glory, 76ers iniquity both run through Staples Center

Whether Bill Belichick’s motivation for not wearing those ridiculous military style coaching getups is his respect for the military not to play dress-up soldier, his disdain for the NFL’s cheaper panderings or because he looks like crap in khakis, I wish to say this:

Bill Belichick is my new idol.

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I’d like to feel lousy about this story (Forbes, behind a pay wall, so here’s a summary) but I’m stuck with the vision of a happy Dean Spanos and Mark Davis, or an even happier Stan Kroenke, and the phrase “screw ‘em” comes immediately to mind.

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The Warriors have not yet lost (although Tuesday against Toronto will be a challenge without Draymond Tiberius Green), and the 76ers have not yet won. But PredictionMachine.com (a fantasy site in the we-play-the-same-program-50,000-times-to-see-whatcould-happen-in-the-50,001st attempt) has concluded that the Sixers have a decent chance of beating the Lakers on December 1 (they nearly beat Dallas Monday night, if that helps) while the Warriors have only one game in which they don’t have at least 75 percent chance of winning before Christmas. That would be Thursday in Los Angeles against the Clippers.

In other words, the roads to glory and iniquity both run through Staples Center. As we suspected.

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Speaking of which, 62 of the required 80 college football teams that can be put in a bowl game are bowl-eligible, meaning that 18 spots remain available, and only 17 teams have five wins. On the assumption that they won’t all win their final games, there is an excellent chance that some more losing teams could get into the racket this year (although there are 11 four-win teams that could win out and become eligible).

The point? You don’t have to watch all 40 games. Honest. You really and truly don’t.

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A Dennis Allen sighting! The man least likely to be confused for Rob Ryan has replaced Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator of the New Orleans (What The Hell Do You Mean Washington Scored 47 Points On Us?) Saints.

Raiders fans may smile . . . but only for a second. I mean, it’s not like their heroes are defending the goal line with any particular verve.

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Chelsea’s difficult season was summarized by one of its players, Cesc Fabregas, on the record for the Spanish paper Marca in this way:

“Things aren’t working out and the results aren’t doing our performances justice. We’re playing better but aren’t having any luck. When things are going your way, you flick the ball with your heel and it flies into the top corner, whereas now every piledriver is going off target. Either way, we need to get back to winning ways sooner rather than later.”

But that was after he answered the question this way:

“The season is f-----.”

Also on the record.

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Speaking of which, you may now add St. Louis’ Nick Foles to the list of NFL quarterbacks who have been clipboarded and it is increasingly clear that the best quarterbacks in the NFL are really, really old.

In other words, the NFL has managed to turn on itself and are now one intrepid coach from going back to the single wing.

Now that would clear up all that concussion debate – because everyone would have one.

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And finally, after pressure from mothers and chefs across the nation, the NFL has admitted that an error occurred and it never should have scheduled Eagles-Lions on Thanksgiving morning.