Why do I get the feeling weakll be doing the same thing with Big Ben in ten years we're doing with Favre (French pronunciation is FA I V.

Favre Plays Us All...

Tonight's Thursday Night PreSeason game was highlighted by something. It wasn't the game. It was a very Best Buy looking commercial brought to you by Sears featuring the old, grayhaired Brett Favre...

Hilarious is all I have to say. Favre stood pondering a decision on a TV as the sales dude said people just can't make a decision, referring to another customer... he said, "you know, some people just can't stand those guys.. Waffling over a decision."

Favre says: "I just can't stand those guys."

Saturday Night Live could not've done it better.

Good for you Brett Favre. I went from being annoyed by you to being a bigger fan of yours than I ever was. You have played the world (at least the world that cares about NFL).

And kudos to Sears... I hope your stock reclaims it's 13% loss from today.

Monday Night Football: We'll be watching tap soon

Soon we'll be watching tap football and we'll have to clap for our opponents when they score or make a nice play because, well, because it's just an awful darn nice thing to do!

No celebration?

No in your face? What in the wild world of sports, as Slim Pickens said, is the sporting world coming to? We're red meat eating Americans, right? Jake Locker can't throw a ball in the air and Tom Brady is not allowed to be injured and soon Peyton Manning will get done for the season too- but not if the refs have their way. Last night a Bears LB got a fifteen yarder for a love tap on Peyton's head. It didn't matter as karma kicked in and the Bears one for having an awesome D and an O that could occasionally make plays... (did I say Defense Wins Championships? I think I did (see previous post)

Anyways, get ready for a good game after this Minny/vs/Packattack game with an effective O vs an effective D once again. If you can have one or the other, pick the D.

Anyways again-the NFL is going to do it's best to protect marquee QBs this year. There are fewer and fewer left. Tony Romo almost got knocked out against the Browns and Peyton is being held together by safety pins and Farveee is just Farvee and he doesn't get hurt- or he just takes pills so he can play the next game (don't worry prescription drugs will only kill your liver while marijuana will only cure your gloucoma).

Ch-Ch-Changes

Football is still fresh and creating this year's identity. I won't go over college right now because if you're reading this you already know what happened and that's what those links up on the right are for. I need a hug after this weekend's football but what is becoming an apparent theme this weekend as I sit here typing along they flash to Peyton Manning riding the exercise bike on the sidelines and the talk of Tom Brady's wounded knee.

Those guys are my age and while I'm not old, I've been working at my profession for nearly ten years and so have they and while I've learned quite a few tricks I will continue to get more experience but those guys, I don't think they have too much left in the tank. Brett Favre looked good today but he's only for or so years older than those two so it's not like he's 100 years old or something but football takes it's toll. You can make your muscles stronger by lifting weights and get faster through speed training and you get smarter through film and other mental gymnastics but the bones and the tendons and the joints cannot simply be trained to get stronger. They can only withstand so much pulling apart and getting put back together and as a quarterback in football the average fan has no idea just how exposed these players are. The sport is very cruel to that position. They get to stay stationary somewhat while many are just trying to hurt them.


And Another Thing About Quarterback....

The average fan sees all of football as though they are the quarterback somehow and thus all of football is seen through and "offensive eye-piece." For instance if team "A" beats team "B" by 20 but allowed 30 points, it just seems more impressive than team "C" who beats team "D" by one touchdown less but only gave up 1 touchdown as the defense was suffocating. It is often said that defense wins championships. It's like baseball. Pitching wins gams and th big hitting teams always end up losing the big one. So here we are all over again. Offense totally gets people over excited while stifling defense just bores people. The teams with the flashy offenses always get people excited but those offenses can have a bad game or go up against a strong defense and not seem quite as good.

Deion Sanders Disses Mike & Mike

Deion Sanders refused to discuss Brett Favre with the radio program this morning on grounds that it violates something contractual with the NFL network and said to the effect, "Come on guys, you know I can't talk about that stuff with you," basically rubbing their noses in the fact and being very non-Deionish. Greenberg's nose was noticeably bent out of shape about it. Deion went against his own rule and commented on it anyway by saying it was a lateral move and he wasn't a big fan of the move.

His job was to discuss the stupid ass Madden Palooza taking place at the Rose Bowl tomorrow or something. Of course Brett Favre is on the cover of Madden in a Packers Uni this year but who really cares.

Off to raise my Q-Rating

There are five zillion links on nfl.com with videos of what everybody thinks of the filthy BF going to play for a crapper of a team. My opinion doesn't count but it only seems like he's just going to get more media exposure and maybe he won't be stuck simply doing those latently gay pickup football games in the tall wheat grass for Wrangler anymore. He can be shirtless on the cover of vogue like some old man's Tom Brady.