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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Are you ready for some football? Friday, September 09, 2005 Are you ready for some football? I was, after losing interest in baseball several months ago, and pretty well ignoring the entire NFL exhibition season. And the season started off the way last season ended; with New England outcoaching and outperforming a team with a superb wide receiver and lots of talent, but not enough smarts or heart to win the game. NE won 30-20, and like most New England games I've seen during their run of dynastic success, the final score was a lot closer than the game itself. I never had any doubt they'd win, at least not after the first quarter when NE made defensive adjustments and ended Oakland's offensive success cold. I certainly wasn't going to skip Kali to watch the first game of the year live, but that's what VCRs are for, right? As always, taped games are superior to live ones, since they require 1/3 of the time to watch, and you can avoid most of the inane announcer chatter and all of the commercials. I was well into the 3rd quarter of the Raiders vs. Patriots game before I remembered John Madden was bloviating away on the audio, and that was about my happiest moment of the evening, until that point. I also enjoyed the Raiders' loss, since as was the case last year, my best hope for watching some quality football past November is to hope SF and Oakland suck ass so badly that they fail to sell out their home games, thus triggering the NFL's idiotic local blackout rule, thus allowing the local channels to show other games instead of the crappy home team games. I knew I could count on SF to bumble their way to another disaster of a season, but I had some worries about Oakland, and since the other NFC west options aren't much better than SF, it's Oakland's lack of success that I'm most rooting for. After all, when the Raiders get blacked out I usually get to see San Diego play, and while I fear the happy joy of last year's 12-4 season is going to soon be just a faint memory, at least I can name perhaps a dozen of their players, which is a good half dozen more than I can name on Oakland's and San Francisco's rosters. Combined. As for NFL predictions this year... I have none. I've read some of the preseason pics on various websites, but I paid no attention whatsoever to player movement, new coaches, draft picks, etc, during the off season, so I'd do nearly as well with analysis as I would by picking team names from a hat. As with everything else, I can't really imagine how people have time to do all of that sports reading and research, much less watch the games on TV and suffer through the increasily-lame SportsCenter. Don't they have video games to play and fantasy novels to write? Who has time to memorize the names of offensive linemen? Or cornerbacks? Or look up how good player X was in college? It's a shame too, since I was super into following football and digging through the stats and player records and such fifteen years ago, before there was an Internet to support my interests with statistical analysis and indepth reporting and such. If I were in my teens now and had the Internet for info and satellite TV to watch every game on, I'd do nothing but football year round. It's probably for the best that I didn't have that option though, since I know I would have grown as bored with that as a career as I did with my decade-past web designer aspirations. Posted by: Flux # 5:06 AM Comments: Looking ahead to the weekend, the Bay Area will suffer through Tampa Bay @ Minnesota and Denver @ Miami in Sunday's early games, with the scintillating StL Rams @ SF 49ers late. TB @ Minn isn't a bad matchup, but it's far from great, and the other two have to be among the 3 or 4 worst games of the week. I was going to list the games on in LA this weekend and put in a joke about how it might not be so bad to live in a city without pro football, but the TV listings online for LA just have 2 undetermined FOX games on that day, along with TB @ Minn, so there went that. Odds are they won't be suffering through the worst and 2nd worst teams from last year in the same afternoon, though. Oh well, at least it gives me plenty of motivation to do other/better things than sit on the couch watching football, and Sunday's late game and the Monday night game are both good, so I can't really complain. #: 5:37 AM posted by Flux At least the Sunday and Monday primetime games look like they'll be interesting. #: 9:12 PM posted by Vik Oh yeah, next weekend's games look a lot better: 10:00 AM: Patriots vs Panthers 1:00 PM: Chargers vs Broncos Though there still will be the 49er game on the other network and the night game will be Raiders-Chiefs. #: 10:57 PM posted by Vik Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 August 2010 February 2011

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