Opening Kick-off Part Deux

The French is a ploy to impress girls...

So for everyone who read the first part of my football preview, that was all sarcasm… I know it doesn’t translate well for reading. Everyone loves football, so much so NBC calls it’s pregame coverage on Sunday Night, Football Night in America. Ironically it sounds very similar to CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada… I feel pending lawsuit on our hands.

Anyways, in 2008 America, football is the most popular sport around. Views change, granted fifty years ago, baseball was the best thing in town, everyone knew the starting lineups of very team in the N.L. and A.L. Now, there are kids who probably know every starting O-Line in the league. Needless to say I never bothered with that growing up (unless it was Orlando Pace from The Ohio State University).

Thomas Boswell once wrote an article explaining 99 ways baseball was better than football. George Will once said that football dealt with the “two worse things in modern America; violence punctuated by committee meetings.” He really topped it off by asking, “who wants to grow up as a third and long yardage pulling guard.”

I can’t help myself from agreeing with that. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love football’s athleticism, but I think as a nation we placed football and the National Football League’s success on such a high pedestal. Many, especially people my age, fail to remember how weak and vulnerable the sport was twenty-five years ago. There have been collective bargaining issues, work stoppages and even franchises that have faltered, something seen in every sports league. Replacement players did not just happen in the 1994 MLB strike, the NFL had replacement players.

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Okay so while watching the Bills-Seahawks game (thank you local coverage), my spank bank was filled. Sideline reporter Charissa Thompson was dressed in a nice sweater, glasses combo. She was official the best looking girl in Buffalo Sunday. She is really setting a decent bar for the women, now if only her sweater would blow open...

Sal Says: If only her sweater would blow open. I'm into that kind of thing... does anyone have any money, I need to buy booze.