Are you ready for some Football?!!!

The NFL’s Hall of Fame game is this Sunday…That’s right baby, the NFL season is upon us!!!

For some reason it didn’t feel as long to me this year. Of course seeing as how my home team was the worst EVER last year, I have nothing to really look forward too, so there hasn’t been any anticipation on my part-which perhaps helped me get through the summer without any football. Regardless, it is upon us now so it’s time to take a look at what is going on, and boy do we have a lot of it.

We have a convict quarterback-Michael Vick-out on parole, reinstated (?!!) by the commish and looking for work. How Vick got re-instated I have no clue. The man is a felon, and in my opinion, felons do not deserve ANY job which permits them a stance in the public spot light. It sends the wrong message to our young people and tells all athletes that you can perpetuate heinous crimes and still, in the long run, “get away with it”. Call me conservative (which I’m not), but to me, that’s just wrong. Hopefully no teams will express a real interest in Vick and he will stay where he belongs: on his couch watching the games like the rest of us “normal guys”…

We have a soon to be convict, and former Superbowl superstar in Plaxico Burress, indefinitely suspended and facing what looks to be a minimum 3 and a half years in prison for shooting himself in the leg (hahahahahahahaha) with an unregistered gun. For some reason Burress, whom I hold no sympathy for after such stupid ass actions, is being head-hunted by the New York state attorney (where this crime took place). You would think that being a New York Giant, Burress would get a free pass for such stupidity but apparently the state has been looking to make an example of someone under their tough gun laws for a while now, and now they have the perfect victim. It’s just lucky for the Giants that Burress’s contract was up so they won’t suffer at the hands of his stupidity…

We had more drama around “TO” this off season, as we witnessed what we all expected-the bitter split between Owens and the Cowboys. Talk about a head case. Terrell Owens is another of those players who doesn’t deserve the stage he gets to perform on every year for 7 months. The man has an ego the size of Jupiter and thinks the NFL world revolves around him. I’m not sure if I should feel sorry for the Buffalo Bills-who signed him to a contract-or chastise them for picking up someone who is going to be an obvious cancer in the locker room. Whatever the Bills are paying Owens, he isn’t worth it. Owens’ skills have fallen dramatically in the last 2 seasons and it’s obvious he is not the playmaker he once was. He, just like that idiot “ocho cinco”, hasn’t been one of the elite receivers since he helped the Eagles get to the Superbowl 5 or 6 years ago. In sum, he needs to fade away and let others have some time in the spotlight, instead of hogging in all to himself through his selfish and stupid actions, and pathetic play.

Draft drama continues with the idiocy of Michael Crabtree-the standout receiver from Texas Tech whom the 49ers drafted 10^th this year. Apparently Crabtree is good friends with Terrell Owens and Ocho Cinco, because one of his “advisors” told the media this week that he, Crabtree, is willing to sit out the entire year and re-enter the draft next year, if the 49ers do not come up with a suitable contract offer for him. Are you kidding me?!! This kid is barely out of diapers and hasn’t proved shit to ANYONE at the pro level and his dumb ass advisors have the audacity to make a statement like this?!!! If I were the 49ers I’d let the dumb fuck sit on principle alone and for being stupid enough to hire such a moronic “advisor”. Give me a break. The guy is a great athlete, but he obviously is either prone to making bad choices as it relates to the people he surrounds himself with, or has an unjustifiably, over inflated opinion of himself…

2 time Superbowl champion QB Ben Roethlisberger showed he is not the clean cut perfect man every Pittsburgh native believes him to be when he was accused this off season of sexual assault in Las Vegas. Due to the time past, Roethlisberger won’t be charged criminally, but the woman is going after his money. This is another case of pro athletes making really, realllllllly bad decisions. I don’t know if “Big Ben” assaulted this women or not (though I doubt it, seeing as how she waited for, like, ever to come out with it) but he obviously put himself into some sort of sticky situation at some point which, in turn, created the environment for these accusations to be made against him. So far, he hasn’t been suspended, but it will be interesting to see if this plays out the way the Kobi Bryant case did a few years back or if there is really something there with this one…

Of course what would the off season have been without any Brett Favre drama. Will he retire? Where will he go? Who is interested in him? Good grief! It was enough to make my stomach turn. Worse, in my opinion, these stupid off season antics of his the last 2 years have tarnished his otherwise excellent perception in the public eye. Fortunately, Favre made the right decision finally, and decided to stay retired despite some obvious interest on the part of the (desparate?) Minnesota Viqueens (teehee)…

We heard residents all over New England sigh with relief at the return of an obviously healthy Tom Brady to the practice field a few weeks ago. This is a nice change to most of the idiot news we seem to get out of pro football these days. Not to build the guy up any more than he already is, but there is a reason why Brady is upheld as the beacon of all that is good and right about pro sports-the man doesn’t fuck it all off like so many others do. He always holds himself up with respect and pride, which carries over into his play both on and off the field. So sorry for the media though because this makes him rather boring to cover, but tough I say; the paparazzi need to get a life and stop hounding people just because they can. Needless to say, the American sports world needs more Tom Brady’s and A LOT fewer Plaxico Burress’s and Michael Vick’s…

And, last, but not least, we have my Let-Downs-the worst team in the history of the league last year (sorry, but I don’t think that point can be expressed enough). The pathetic Lions cannot be any worse can they? Actually, truth be told, they could be. Last year, they managed to win all of their pre season games, so, literally speaking, they won 4 times last season before going 0-fer in the regular season. As everyone by now knows, I never saw the problems with the Lions as stemming from Matt Millen, but from their owner-Moron Ford, Sr. That said, the Lions have made some good moves this year. I am not a fan of their draft picks-how they could draft 2 offensive players in the first round when they fielded the 2^nd worst defense in league history last year I’ll never figure out-but, apparently, those they did draft look pretty good in camp so far. The new coaching staff I like a lot, but, at the risk of sounding like the proverbial broken record, none of it really matters!!!! The Lions will always be the pathetic “let downs” because of their owner-who has no clue to run a business of any kind! Needless to say, I’m not keeping my hopes up that the Lions will pull off what the Dolphins did last year-going from worst to first in their division.

But, I digress…Whew…I know I barely scratched the surface, but obviously, as always in the NFL, there is a lot to talk about and a lot too follow as the season wear’s on-which is why it’s the greatest sport on Earth. So, are you ready for some football?