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Are you ready for some football? 

So am I.  The buzz is at an all time high as the same ole stories are breaking, and all sports reporters are salivating dangerously close to Michael Vick. 

Let's take a look at the stories that are sticking points right now, and let's face it, barely connected to football.



5.  The toe heard round the world:

Well, it has begun.  I knew that TO would start making news, negative news, but I thought it would during the season.  The Niners, the Eagles, the Cowboys, the TO show, his daddy, his grammy, all of that, and it's a toe that sidelines TO.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he break a bone two weeks before the Super Bowl with the Eagles, and still played in the game?  This is TO being TO, and being a Cowboy fan, I sent apologies to all my friends in Buffalo.  He was going to pull something sooner or later, and here it is.  TO did this in almost every camp.  He believes that he is ready to go, and will do anything he can to skip the preseason.  This is not a team player, this is a guy out for himself.  If you need info to back up my last statement, check out the TO show.  Then I want you to do a book report about the contents of the show.  No?  Let me do it for you:  It's all about him!  Case closed.  Sorry Buffalo, at least you've been to 4 Super Bowls.


4.  Domestic Abuse in Raider Nation:


Randy Hanson went to far.  He spoke up and pissed off his boss Tom Cable, so Cable did what every overweight, redneck reject from the TV show "Cops" would do, he hit him.  Said Cable, "Nothing Happened."  Nothing happened?  Did he get that right out of the wife beater playbook?  Pretty soon we're gonna get a quote from Hanson stating, "I, um...tripped on a banana, and broke my jaw."  Or, "I ran into a door."  Yeah, if the door was Cable's fist.  Listen, domestic abuse comparison aside, maybe that's exactly what the Raiders needed.  A coach that was going to take matters in his own hands.  I say punch that guy if he's outta line, and when he hits the ground, kick him in the gut.  Make an example out of him.    No other coach is going to get out of line now.  And if the coaches are afraid of getting bitch slapped, then the players will take heed.  (I doubt any football player would allow his coach to punch him and not retaliate, maybe a kicker)  Props to the bully Cable, too bad he may be in jail by the time the season starts.


3.  Rex opens mouth, inserts both feet:


New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is blowing up at the mouth lately.  And it doesn't even matter to him that he has yet to win one game.  Said Ryan, "He's (Belichick) got the same position I have.  How much more motivation are they going to get by putting a quote from Rex Ryan on their wall, saying I believe in my football team and that I'm not going to be intimidated by a coach or anybody else?  If that's where you're going to draw motivation from, hell, we're probably going to kick your (butt) if that's the case."  Wow, remember, still has not coached in the regular season.  Spoken like a true idiot.  If you have to say, out loud to the media, that you're not intimidated, guess what, you're intimidated, and it shows.  Too bad Tom Cable isn't in New York.  This guy needs a shot straight to the chin.  But then again, what did you expect from the idiot son of Buddy Ryan.  Now there's a guy that shouldn't have been allowed to reproduce.  Hey Rex, WIN A SUPER BOWL, and then, if you're still not a professional, then call out your former boss.  It doesn't work the other way around.  If both feet were in his mouth, where do you think his head was?  Quite a trick.


2.  Another convicted criminal is allowed to play:


That's right, the commish is at it again.  Why are you saying (Roger) that our players are role models, and must be held up to the highest standards, and then you allow a felon to rejoin our beloved league.  F U Roger, go back to being a mail clerk, you jerk! 

More reason to hate the Eagles, solid team, good coach, dog murdering second string QB.  I don't care what you people out there think.  He is lower than lower, the scum of the earth.  And he's paid his debt to society, but it was not enough.  Think about it, if it were you or me, we'd still be in jail, but because it was Michael Vick, a talent like Michael Vick, he's out and earning millions.  Yes, he's admitted to wrong doing.  He's stated that he'd cry himself to sleep at night, in jail, at the knowledge of his crimes.  I guarantee you the reason Vick was crying in prison was not for the countless dogs that he viciously killed, but for himself.  He cried like a bitch on that bunk, realizing that he was living the life, and all of a sudden, he's not.  That's why he cried.  Because he was rich, and then he wasn't, because he had women left and right, and now men.  And that is something he can try to hide, but I see right through that.  What I love about this whole thing is the countless morons out there that are eating up his lies.  Scoop it up pigeons.  You're all like the Randy Hanson's of the world, "He didn't mean it, he's really a good person, it won't ever happen again."  Chumps.

Aside from the circus of Vick, is the fact that he can straight up play.  To put it more to directly, he can run.  Put him in the backfield, use him in the Wildcat, but don't let him throw.  He's not a smart QB, but he can be used as a WR because of his speed, if he's still got it.  The Eagles are more dangerous with Vick. 


1.  The old man will not go away:


Three or four weeks ago, I was so happy.  Not because training camp was coming, not because the start of the season was on the way, but because Brett Favre was fading into the background.  It was supposed to be the first gear up to the season without the melodrama that is "Will he or Won't he?".  He didn't and I was happy.  But in the back of my mind, I knew, as did most of you knew, that he would possibly pull another rabbit out of his ass.  And sure enough, as if we're living in some Wizard of Oz world with midgets and lolly pop kids, here he is again.  He just will not go away.  Will Brett Favre still be playing football in my 60's?  His cap looked as old as he did in his press conference yesterday.  And what is up with the tears?  Brett is crying, TO is crying, Vick is crying in prison, guys please, MAN UP.  This is Football, there's no crying in football. 

Please join me in signing a petition, that at the end of this year when he retires yet again, that he will sign a contract that will keep him out of the NFL for life.  Will anyone sign that?  I know for a fact that everyone out in Green Bay country are on board.  And that's another thing, I feel for those guys in Green Bay.  Let's face it, he didn't come back for the money, Brett's rich.  He didn't come back for the records, he owns them all.  He didn't come back for the love of the game, ok maybe.  I believe, he came back just to stick it to the Packers.  Why else would you go to the Vikings?  Arch rivals of the Pack.  The only thing worse is if he came back to play for the Bears.  I know it, Brett knows it, and Childress knew it and that's why they dished out 25 million.  He wants to stick it to the Pack management as hard as he possibly can, and his Tin Man body will probably last for about 3/4 of the season, but just enough to beat out the pack.  He's back, and this time it's personal.