You thought I missed the NFL Season Opener right? Saints versus Vikings on Thursday night was the official opening of the 2010 season but I don’t buy that crap. The High School freshman and JV teams play on Thursdays, the Varsity on Friday, College on Saturday and the NFL on Sunday. Okay, so there is Monday Night Football but I don’t watch that either. Why? Because the other networks put my favorite shows up against the powerhouse NFL. Like the savages they are, they will sacrifice virgin TV shows to ratings obscurity. I don’t buy that either.
So the real kick off is this Sunday and the predictions are flying. Like opinions and lawyers, most people have em and they usually stink. I have no idea who will win the Super Bowl. Besides, I just watch for the half time show and commercials, like most people. But I am a fan, really I am, and I have a sense of humor. Being a Detroit Lions fan since I was kid I have to laugh or switch teams. I don’t switch teams, so I just laugh, a lot.
After the jump, in no particular order, my psuedo predictions for the season..
- Someone will get suspended due to off field shenanigans (tough one I know).
- The Lions will lose most of their games and embarrass the teams they do beat.
- Favre will retire, come back and retire again. He should follow a washed up hockey players lead and just come back for the playoffs.
- The Dallas Cowboys, you either hate em or love em, will still win the cheerleader contest.
- I will miss all my predictions and look like everyone else. Well at least it is football season.
Watch this video, this is why I laugh a lot and drink beer watching the games. The kid is tough and will make a fine QB but somehow, someway the Lions will screw this up too. Remember Barry Sanders? Hope in the preseason is dashed when the games count. Color me blue and silver sad.
When Paddy retired from high school sports, he hung up the mullet and invested in an armchair and remote. Now he’s the Gallery sports guy and still manages to run is own site, Paddy’s Wanderings.Editor’s Note – does he look like a murderer to you? I mean, not a serial killer, but maybe a rage killing or two? Is it just me? Don’t tell him I said that, btw.
A Lions fan? You have my sympathies, sir.
I can’t even compare that to my being a Pirates fan… At least the Pirates have won a couple of titles in my lifetime.
The last time the Lions won anything, cars were made of steel and had fins(1957). So yeah.. but at least I have hope, they are 0-0 right now and that is good.
Rage doesnt work. It is much more fun to ask for a burlap sack, a bucket of ice, and a pair of mice.. or if the ‘puter is acting out, setting a hammer next to it. Much more effective then rage.. 🙂
Thanks to Sangfroid for the artwork too!
Paddy let’s go out next Friday and find some high school game. The one where the kid who scores the winning touchdown will remember it for the rest of his life even though it wasn’t perfect and there weren’t large steroid crazed men chasing him.
The Pats rolled to an easy victory over the much improved Bengals.
……….high schools make sence.
EVEN IN AMERICA, folks!!
Lions should of had that game
They lost again but so did the Pats so crap!
Yeah, but not a bad game, the offense looked good. Still.. 0-2..