Thoughts

After months of nothing on SportsCenter but baseball highlights (and I use the term "highlights" losely) The NFL kicked off it's regular season last night and it did so in style.

A rematch of last season's AFC Championship pitted the Indianapolis Colts against the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.

The game, for all intents and purposes, was on par with a Super Bowl as it featured many musical acts (spanning different genres) as a precurser to the game. This was not the first game of the year. This was truly an event. This was breaking ground on yet another year of professional football. The world's fantasy football obsessed sat down to their televisions and set their beverage next to their laptop computer which coincedentally displayed their fantasy teams. To those of you who can relate to this, you know Christmas comes early every year the Thursday prior to Week 1.

Business as usual was halted yesterday afternoon as preseason predictions needed to be prophecized to coworkers young and old. Tales of fantasy seasons gone by echoed through the halls. Friendly wagers may have been placed by the fans and fanatics alike.

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Whoever you are you, sat down to see Co-MVP from last season Peyton Manning take out pent up hostility against the team that knocked him out of another year of playoff contention. What you saw was not exactly the opposite, but also not exactly the same. Peyton did not look as strong as he did last season and even appeared to have something else on his mind as he struggled through this game. The man is talented, he has been surrounded by very talented players.

Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady played like a champion again last night as he dismantled a hesitant Indianapolis secondary. This does not mean that the Colts aren't up to par with the Pats. Consider two fumbles (James) and one INT (Manning) in the red zone...and you wonder why Rhodes is brought in as the red zone back.

Thanks to the hurricane we have pro football tomorrow AND Sunday. This will be a great weekend.

As it happens every year, Sundays until the end of January are now booked. If you wanna hang out, we're watchin' the game.