And lo it was good.
The NFL schedule release is basicaly like the Oscars, Grammys, Council of Nicea, and AVN awards all rolled into one magical night. Its enough to get you salivating if your the Seahawks but its kind of like finding out your executon date all over again if your a Raiders fan.
As Cleatus descended the mountain top once again with the tablets a few note worthy dates literaly jumped off the calendar at me: The NFL is so powerfull that they get to rearrange the days of the week whenever they want. Cases in point: The Sunday night football game played on Thursday, September 10th, The Thursday night football game played on Saturday, December 26th, and The Sunday night football game played on Thursday, November 26th. Goodell has built the league into such a juggernaut that he has the Gregorian calendar eating from the hand of it’s corporate partners.
Other important things to note:
-No one scheduled Bama. Why they scared?
-The Tennessee Titans have allready been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention
-Week 12 release of the Ted Wells investigation into whether the Patriots deflated a football in January
-Sign of the times: Its the first season the NFL didnt publish the phone tree for fans to let each other know in case of a rain out
-The NFL gets it right once again by not scheduleing the Redskins on Columbus Day and avoiding the dreaded PC Police double whammy
-Thursday, Novemeber 19th: The Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars are contractually obligated to make us spend one Thursday night per year with our familys instead of getting to watch football. Thanks for nothing NFL.
-Monday November 30th: The Browns get a Monday night game at home verse the Ravens which is basically back to school night for Baltimore. The Ravens get to see all the new Browns players and see all the old fans and loosers who never left there hometown, and then pretend to be impressed with all the dumb plays and art projects they have hanging all over the walls and on the field.
-Peyton Manning and the Broncoes are going to lose against the Patriots again
One things for sure- its time to start pregaming already folks,its going to be one hell of a season.