All is right in the world – The NFL is back

  • Prognosticating is hard.
  • The John Mellencamp song “This is Our Country” is already over played.
  • I wish NBC would have chosen another intro song, but at least it wasn’t Pink singing.
  • Faith Hill looked slutty.
  • Jerry Jones has some funny commercials as of late.  Too bad he’s the most marketable Cowboy.  It was interesting to see Jerry, Tony Romo, and Wade Phillips all in a commercial.  Wade actually shown some personality.  I think a funny nickname for Wade Phillips is Wide Phillips.
  • I thought it was a creative idea for the Colts to come out of a huge replica of their Super Bowl ring rather than some inflatable something-or-another.  I’m sure every Super Bowl champion will  follow suit from here on out, but the Colts will always be the first.
  • I wonder if the NFL on Fox will change their graphics package.  The futuristic robot package with all the mechanical sound effects was cool when it first came out, but honestly, it’s old and it’s time for them to come up with something new.
  • I bet the Jimmy Johnson Barry Switzer segment will be entertaining.
  • Curt Menefee will be the host for the Fox pre-game show.  If Fox was smart, they would have signed Dan Patrick as soon as he announced he was leaving ESPN Radio to host Fox pre-game.  You have to admit, that’s a damn good idea I just came up with.
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Building a replica of Wrigley Field at 1/3 the size of the original

wrigminia2.jpgOver the last five years, Garkey has slowly constructed the largest replica ever built of Wrigley Field. With an obsessive attention to detail, this bespectacled insurance fraud investigator has worked nights and weekends, painting walls, mixing mortar and enlisting a small army of Cubs fans to help him in his quest. He has accounted for every last detail: the green scoreboard, the red marquee sign, the WGN press box – complete with the cartoon image of Harry Caray. Even a tiny copper penny has been positioned in the left-field wall, just like a penny rumored to have been pressed by bricklayers into the same spot at big Wrigley.

Known as “Little Cubs Field,” and located in a public park on the west side of Freeport, it has become a real-life field of dreams in Freeport, where many hope – with an “if you build it, they will come” logic – that the stadium will attract tourists and bolster the local economy in this town of 26,443 which over the last few decades has suffered through a drumbeat of factory closings and corporate consolidations.

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NFL Prognostication Week 1

I’ve seen segments on NFL pregame shows where someone predicts the winner of upcoming games and always thought that I could do better than those guys on TV.  So here it goes, I’m going to see how well I can predict games.   In all likelihood I will probably humble myself, but it should be fun nonetheless.

My predicted winners are in bold. 

Saints at Colts
Falcons at Vikings
Chiefs at Texans
Panthers at Rams
Eagles at Packers
Patriots at Jets
Broncos at Bills
Dolphins at Redskins
Titans at Jaguars
Steelers at Browns
Bears at Chargers
Lions at Raiders
Buccaneers at Seahawks
Giants at Cowboys
Ravens at Bengals
Cardinals at 49ers

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