The first weekend of NFL action seemed oddly familiar to when I went and saw “Get Smart” this past summer. Going to see that movie I knew exactly what it was going to be like, another stupid Steve Carell movie with Anne Hathaway playing the ugly girl that gets a makeover. (Refer to “The Princess Diaries,” and “The Devil Wears Prada”) Coming out it was not what I expected at all, it was completely opposite in fact, but was still thoroughly entertaining. “Peyton Manning will be just fine, the Colts offense will not lose a step.” “The Bengals are going to shut down rookie QB Joe Flacco.” “The Patriots are going to prove they can make it back to the Super Bowl again.” “The Chargers are going to prove they are contenders as well.” All of these phrases were uttered more often than not in some form, but none of them were even close to what happened. Whatever predictions you had for this year, throw them out and consider these revelations:

Peyton Manning's usual audibles at the line fell upon deaf ears on Sunday.

The Colts Aren’t the Same Without…Jeff Saturday ???

The Indianapolis Colts opened their season in a brand new stadium that they could fit their old shoe box of stadium RCA Dome inside of. All night long the announcers kept saying, “That’s the first catch in Lucas Oil Stadium,” and “That’s the first touchdown in Lucas Oil Stadium,” and in the end it was “That’s the first loss for the Colts in Lucas Oil Stadium.” (I promise I am in no way plugging Lucas Oil…) Everybody was concerned with Peyton Manning not taking a snap all preseason and rightfully so the offense was stagnant at best. But I wouldn’t put the blame on Peyton; it was the absence of Peyton’s only bud that will allow him to touch his rear in a fashion other then a bum slap, and that’s his center Jeff Saturday. Saturday, who has snapped the ball to Manning since 1999, is out 6-8 weeks with a injured knee. When you take time to reflect on the center, it’s an integral part of anything. Take an Oreo without the white stuff in the middle, then it’s just two crappy pieces of chocolate cardboard stacked on each other. Or you can compare it to a Twinkie without the creme filling, take that out and it’s just another sponge. Saturday was the main interpreter to the line of Peyton’s infamous audibles, which he calls in droves on every play. I can only imagine what was going through that center’s head, “What the heck is he saying? Seriously man! Just say “HIKE!””

In one split second the Patriots season may have turned for the worse.

The Patriots are in Deep Sludge 

No other team has had more talk around them since last year than the New England Patriots. They took a chance on Randy Moss and put him in the record books for most touchdown receptions in a season, they skirted the integrity of their franchise with the New York Jets’ accusations of them taping their defensive signals and then “Spygate,” and they almost matched the ’72 Dolphins as the second team to go undefeated in a season until they blew it in the Super Bowl. However; it’s a new season and the Patriots  were out to prove they could make another Super Bowl run until Kansas City Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard awkwardly bumped Tom Brady’s knee and put him out for the year. Some fans are calling the hit dirty, while the more realistic ones are calling it like it was, a clean hit and a fluke injury. Just to suppress the livid Patriot fans, we’ll call the injury “Chiefsgate” and start a petition for the NFL to investigate. In an instant we were all introduced to Matt Cassel (no relation to Sam Cassell, but close).  Cassel was at USC behind Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart, he never started a game in college. That will mean absolutely nothing come Sunday when he starts his first NFL game. After the Colts lost and the Patriots lost Brady, the Pittsburgh Steelers started licking their chops. Even more crazy is the talks of Brett Favre and the J! E! T! S! JETS JETS JETS now being a contender. Tom Brady has single-handedly (or single-kneedly) sent the AFC into a whirlwind.  

Frank Gore and the 49ers are looking their normal selves in '08.

Yes, the Raiders and 49ers Had Their Gatorade Spiked With ‘Suck’ Again

Let’s all just get one thing straight, the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers are awful. There is no point in getting excited about the chance of them improving because they will inevitably fail and disappoint us all. Until they start winning, there is absolutely zero reason for us to suppose they will get better. It seems the one thing that both teams have been desperately looking for is a quarterback and a leader. The argument can be made that neither team has been worth a lick since Rich Gannon and Jeff Garcia (or Steve Young if you want to go that far back into history). As I was listening to ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd, he mentioned that the problems in the Bay run deeper than the players and the coaches, it’s correlated with the owners. Head Coaches Mike Nolan of the 49ers and Lane Kiffin of the Raiders are hoping that sound byte will make it’s way to their respective front offices, it might help them avoid the firing talk for another couple of weeks. A couple wins might help them as well.

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Running back LaDainian Tomlinson would be a wise choice with your #1 pick.

The NFL season is upon us which means that one more thing is inching closer, the beginning of Fantasy Football. What started out as a fun game, has turned into a revolution. Fantasy Football with the NFL has become as synonymous as blackjack with Vegas. The interesting thing about it is that much like blackjack, there is skill involved, but whether you win or not is based more on luck. What was obscure a few years ago is now out in the forefront with numerous sports websites that promote starting your own fantasy team and league with friends. Not only that, but there are also websites and TV programs dedicated to lending advice and strategy about Fantasy Football. 

The most crucial part of Fantasy Football is your Fantasy Draft. Just like those nerds we all make fun of that play with Magic cards and have an assmebly of favorite Pokémon, Fantasy Football participants can draft their favorite players and assembly their own dream team. When I participated in my first draft I felt like a real general manager assembling my own ultimate team, I was that into it. I learned that maybe it’s not so easy to be a general manger. In a typical fantasy league you will have:1 starting quarterback, 2 starting running backs, 2 wide receivers, 1 starting tight end, 1 placekicker, 1 optional offensive starter and 1 defense. Each position is awarded points for certain stats. Common advise is to take a running back with your first pick, but I went against the grain and selected a quarterback. I thought I drafted a pretty decent team, but my starting quarterback stunk, and one my starting running back got injured. To add to my humiliation my place kicker earned the most points on my team. Needless to say, I didn’t compete in my league. 

Fantasy Football is ingenious! If it’s purpose was to attract new fans and increase ratings then it had succeeded. If you ever hear a fan rooting for their arch-rival team to do good, you don’t need to ask them what they are doing, you will already know….Fantasy Football. 

Start You Own Fantasy Football Team: NFL.com /  ESPN / Yahoo

Fantasy Football Tips: Tipcentral / Fox Sports / FF Toolbox

The NBA and MLB have their respective All-Star Games, and the NFL has the Pro Bowl. The NBA and MLB have theirs in the middle of the season, the NFL’s is at the end. There is only one of them that has got it all together to have meaningful and entertaining All-Star festivities.

The late Sean Taylor and Chris Samuels at the '06 Pro Bowl. "Aw man! Do we have to play football?"

The NFL struggles the most with it’s Pro Bowl, which is held in Hawaii every year. Not only is viewership down in the company of the PBA and the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest, but it is just difficult to watch. The offensive sets that each conference uses are very basic, much like the ones run in your local pee-wee football league. The defenses are about the same, except for it doesn’t take a pack of them to tackle one player, just two or three. What the Pro Bowl needs is some sort of challenge involving top quarterbacks, just a little something to spice it up. I remember watching one quarterback challenge in particular with Brett Favre (pre-Wrangler endorsee), Warren Moon (Pre-annual DUI suspicion arrestee), and Steve Young (pre-bald spot in the back of his head). They had competitions testing accuracy, quickness, and strength. My favorite was the motorized carts with wide receiver cutouts attached to them. Three or four would cross each other at a time and the QBs would have to hit them with footballs that had paint on the tips. The slower/closer carts were less points then the ones that were faster and further away. As it stands, the Pro Bowl is a dried baked potato that’s been sitting under the heat lamps at Wendy’s; no butter, no chives, no cheese, just plain and stale. The Pro Bowl is nothing more than a congratulatory vacation package to Hawaii for the players and cheap entertainment for the fans.

Amare Stoudamire and Tim Duncan arguing over who has to guard LeBron James.

The NBA has got a good thing going with it’s pre-game entertainment. The new Skills Challenge (designed to test passing accuracy and quickness of guards) fits in quite well with the Slam-Dunk Contest and 3-Point Shootout. Now all they need is a competition for the centers…hmm…maybe they can have 20 elementary school kids all shooting at the same time and see who can reject the most shots. Entertaining and fun for the kids, I think we have a winner! The All-Star Game on the other hand is quite a snoozefest. What the game includes is a bunch of “All-Stars” showboating and not playing defense, not to mention as many flubeed alley-oop attempts as you’ll see with a couple of 12-year olds playing on a 6-foot hoop. The past few years, it has also turned into a ‘runway’ for Adidas to show off some new funky uniform. Here’s a gallery of All-Star uniforms through the ages:

1990ish / 1995 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 West 2007 East / 2008 West 2008 East

The NBA has been criticized for its All-Star Game because of it’s selection process and the fact that half the players do not deserve to play. In 2007, Shaq played a whole 10 games the first half of the season, yet started for the Eastern Conference team. Allen Iverson sat out almost the whole first half of the season with the 76ers (in the Eastern Conference), and was traded to the Nuggets (in the Western Conference) and was consequently a starter for the West team. Then there’s the stigma around Yao Ming, how is he voted the starter every year? oh yeah, he has a billion votes pouring in every year from China alone. A more fitting name for the game should be the ‘Market’-Stars Game.

Josh Hamilton hit a record 28 home runs in the first round of the '08 Home Run Derby.

Lastly, there is Major League Baseball, the only league to get things right. The one things that makes the MLB All-Star Game the cream of the crop is that it is meaningful.Come October there will be plenty of baseball fans who will wonder, “Who won the All-Star Game?” That is the case because the league(National or American) that wins that All-Star Game gets home field advantage in the World Series! In the NBA and NFL next to nobody cares enough to remember who won because it doesn’t matter! in the 2008 MLB All-Star Game, the American League won in the 15th inning, capping the most watched All-Star game for MLB since 2002. Similar to the NBAs dunk contest, MLB has the Home Run Derby, which adds to the excitement and entertainment value of the All-Star Game. It is a glorified batting cage for the players and a spectacle to watch. This past derby featured Josh Hamilton hitting a record 28 home runs in the first round. Let’s be honest though, if my grandpa was throwing me fast balls like 71-year old Clay Council was throwing Hamilton, I’d be hitting that many too.

(1)New Orleans Saints

In 2006 they were the feel good story of the NFL after Hurricane Katrina. In the Monday Night Football opening game, the Saints beat the then Michael Vick Falcons and that was the start of their fairy tale season. Behind the MVP-like performance of Drew Brees, (who was let go by the San Diego Chargers for fear of his durability after a shoulder injury) the tough running of Deuce McAllister and breakout season from late round draft pick wide receiver Marques Colston, the Saints put up lots of points and their defense was nothing short of stellar. In 2007, going into the season, there were high hopes for the Saints to go far in the playoffs. Some experts picked them for the Super Bowl. I even drafted Brees as my starting quarterback on my Fantasy Football team! Needless to say, the Saints disappointed many and left a city once on the top of the hill, ready to break out their old garbage bags to put over their faces. So the question is which season was a fluke? This year we will find out!

Can Reggie Bush and the Saints recover from an upside-down '07 season and prove '06 wasn't a fluke?

(2)Cincinnati Bengals

Will someone please give Keyshawn Johnson Jr.(Chad Johnson) the damn ball?!?!  For a few years now we have yearned to see the Bengals break away from the shadows of their horrific past in the 90s. They showed moments of brilliance in 2005 and sporadically throughout each season after, but a shaky defense and an oft-injured Carson Palmer, coupled with some apparent team chemistry problems with his receivers, have kept the Bengals from making that move from decent team to playoff team. They have become the lovable losers with those one of a kind uniforms and host of players who practice more on what they will do when they get in the end-zone instead of how to get there. 

(3)Cleveland Browns

 My earliest memory of the Cleveland Browns was their last game ever before being “deactivated” for three years in 1996. It wasn’t pretty, middle-aged men in dog masks and football helmets with bones through them tearing apart the benches of the stadium. They were ticked, and seemed to have remained so through 1999 when the team was reactivated and then up to 2007 when their team rose from their dismal run of 13 years without a 10+ win season. Quarterback Derek Anderson and running back Jamal Lewis lead a surprisingly good Browns offense to finish 8th in the NFL in total offense. The Cleveland Browns were quite simply the 2006 New Orleans Saints, the question is will they follow suit of the 2007 Saints or will they keep the good stuff they have rolling, keepng their loyal fans in the Dawg Pound wagging their tails. Is it a coincidence that the dog is the most loyal animal and recently a poll ranked Browns fans as the most loyal in the NFL? I think it was rigged.  

(4)San Francisco 49ers

My second Fantasy Football blunder of 2007 was selecting quarterback Alex Smith to backup Drew Brees, I thought I was a genius! Smith was heading into his 3rd NFL season with Jim Hostler as his new and improved offensive coordinator and an offense that was stacked with good targets and a stellar running game to open up the passing game for Smith. Fast-forward to the  end of the season, 49ers fans were calling for Hostler’s head, and Smith only ended up playing in 7 games, throwing for 2 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. Going into his 4th NFL season, and a proven offensive guru at the helm in Mike Matrz, the 49ers have a lot to prove. Not to mention they play in the NFC in which wins are much easier than in the AFC to come by. Smith needs to step up this year and show why he was the #1 pick back in 2005 Draft. If I were a diehard 49ers fan, I would also be sick of knowing the last decent quarterback they had was Jeff Garcia, and he talked with a lisp.   

(5)Minnesota Vikings

Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is one of the newest spokespersons for Vitamin Water, along with knock you down to Chinatown linebacker Brian Urlacher of the Chicago Bears and hit the baseball halfway to the moon batter David Ortiz of the Red Sox! Then again, so is country singer Carrie Underwood so not much to be gained in the toughness category there. Peterson’s Nike commercial with LT however does validate him as an up-and-coming star in the NFL. Last year, on his way to winning Offensive Rookie of the Year, Peterson set an NFL record for most rushing yards in a game, 296. Along with Peterson as a weapon on the offensive side of the ball, the Vikings defense is a collective weapon, finishing 2007 first in the NFL against the run. The Vikings started 2007 very poorly but finished strong. Can they start strong and make a push for the playoffs for the  first time since 2004? Stay tuned!  

3 NFL Teams Who Can’t Prove Anything in 2008

(1)Miami Dolphins

The Dolphins made the right decision to draft offensive tackle Jake Long with their first selection. The only downside to Long is that he can’t block 5 players from sacking the poor quarterback(still to be determined). It will be interesting to see how the next few years do shape out in Miami with the ‘Big Tuna’ Bill Parcells heading football operations. Maybe tuna with dolphin isn’t such a a bad thing. If their union is a success, expect PETA to get involved.

Boy, doesn't he look happy that he gets to play for the Dolphins?

(2)Atlanta Falcons

The worst decision ever made down in Atlanta was making Joey “Heisman” Harrington their starting quarterback. Their has never been a more frightened pocket passer that I can think of, every time he drops back you can see his eyes screaming “GET ME THE HECK OUT OF HERE!!! WHERE’S MY RUNNING BACK TO DUMP THE BALL OFF TOO?!?!?!” Hopefully rookie QB Matt Ryan can rise to the challenge and dethrone him. Call it “The Curse of Michael Vick,” call it “The Curse of Bobby Petrino,” or call it “The Curse of the Falcons Stink,” whatever it is, the Falcons imminent future is not looking bright.  

(3)Arizona Cardinals

Every team the Cardinals play are what they think they are, which is better than them. (Refer to coach Dennis Green’s post-game press conference after a loss to the Chicago Bears) Cardinals have tried everything to win, they have tweaked their uniforms, they have built a new stadium, they have tried to insert old players that were once great (running back Emmitt Smith and QB Kurt Warner), and they’ve tried playing in Mexico. Simple fact of the matter, the Cardinals have proven every year that they can’t prove anything except that they aren’t good.

The NBA has been able to achieve what few other sports have, and that is keeping themselves visible and newsworthy practically all year round. The fact that they have extended their playoffs into June has definitely helped. Only weeks after the NBA Finals concluded, there is the NBA Draft. After the NBA Draft there are summer leagues, and the crazy second season of the NBA (free agency signings and trades). This year they have another luxury, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, featuring the ‘Redeem Team.’ By the time you know it another season is practically rolling around. 

The NFL, although much more anticipated I believe, seems to disappear from our minds for months in between seasons. Between the Super Bowl in February, the NFL Draft in April, and the select few players that feel it a necessity to be arrested for countless offenses, not much happens to fill the void between seasons. But wait, what about that one crazy indoor football league during spring and summer, the AFL? Although the AFL has been marketed much more the past few years, I’m not all too convinced that it is for the hard-core NFL fans.

Like every sport, the AFL has it’s pros and cons, I will present those and let the people decide what they think about the AFL.

Pro- The AFL football is magnificently designed with a gold base color and black ‘racing stripes’ to make you think that the quarterbacks throw it faster. Also, all balls that go into the stands are allowed to be kept by the fans.  

Con- The AFL is a pass-happy league. It is much like the old Madden football video games where you would only pass the ball because the running backs were slower than the offensive lineman. The AFL’s all-time rushing leader is Michael Kelly, he rushed 1,617 yards in his 12 years in the league. That’s an average of 134 yards per year, an average achieved by some NFL players per game. Much like the old Madden video games, the scores are inflated, which becomes nauseating after a while. 

Pro- The field goals are much more exciting with the post being half the size of a NFL post . The AFL posts also have nets on each side so a missed field goal can be rebounded and returned by the opposing team

Con- Nobody hardly makes field goals…

Pro- The field is surrounded by walls which provide exciting collisions and bring the fans at the games closer to the action.

Con- The walls make harder hits than the players.

Pro- No matter what your favorite team’s record is, they will most likely make the playoffs. Last year the Utah Blaze made the playoffs after posting a 6-10 record. 

Con- The playoff race isn’t that exciting if everyone gets in. It’s almost as exciting as you favorite school in college football playing in the Whatcrappybowlwilltheycomeupwithnext.com Bowl.

If you are at all enticed to watch an AFL game now, you will have to wait until next year. The ’08 season ended with the Philadelphia Soul (which is partly owned by singer Jon Bon Jovi) defeated the San Jose Sabrecats (which are not owned by anyone cool). Give the AFL a try, you just might like it, or you just might think that it is nothing more than a NFL Development League, on crack. 

I don’t know what is worse: having to wait 2 weeks for the Super Bowl, being a sports writer that has to find a Super Bowl topic that hasn’t been beaten like a dead horse, or the innocent public having to read the crap that the sports writers put in front of us. Today, all 3 have joined forces, in the form of the crappiest article ever written on espn.com. David Thorpe of espn.com posted an article this morning entitled, “Best football players from NBA rosters.” In this article, Thorpe goes through a football roster and plugs NBA players into every position. In his opening paragraph he wrote, “take a second to imagine the kind of havoc some of these guys would wreak on the football field.” This has to be the most ludicrous notion I have ever heard, that basketball players can make a switch to the NFL. I don’t think Thorpe has even watched any of the fights this season, none of them can even land a clean punch. Heck Thorpe, the golf season just started, why don’t you write an article on best women’s golfers in the NBA, that would for sure involve Mike Miller, Mike Dunleavy, Troy Murphy, and Adam Morrison (he wouldn’t be the first LPGA golfer with a moustache). How about the best basketball players from soccer? I can see David Beckham running the point and Freddy Adu throwing down some LeBron-esque dunks! Ooh, what about John Daly on the pitcher’s mound? Hey, if David Wells can do it, anybody can. Better yet, what about professional wrestlers in baseball? They would fit right in with the steroids and all; however, their flopping abilities may be better suited to the NBA. If you are not an insider subscriber to espn.com, I’m terribly sorry you cannot participate in reading this laughfest of an article, maybe there is a reason they make you pay to read that stuff, it’s that bad.

College Basketball
This past spring brought it’s usual and now expected craziness of upsets, buzzer beaters, and amazing comebacks in what we like to call “March Madness.” The craziest part about it was listening to Jim Nance’s post-game interview with some of the newly crowned champion Florida Gator players. Jim Nance asked center Joakim Noah about what the Gators did to win the game. In amazing fashion, Joakim Noah testified of the quality of his education at the University of Florida by saying, “Me and my boys brought it, and when I say we brought it you know what I mean? No you don’t know what I mean, but my boys know what I mean.” It seemed as if Jim Nance was pushing a panic button that flashed the words “COMMERCIAL BREAK! COMMERCIAL BREAK!” on the producer’s screen up in the video room. It didn’t stop there, Nance went on to interview a couple others which only buried the academic validity of Florida athletes. It seemed as if none of them had any formal schooling or had been taught the English language from a book. I don’t think the Florida officials shed a single tear when four starters chose to bypass their senior seasons and declared themselves eligible for the NBA Draft. Those five players’ decision to leave just might have doubled the school’s average GPA.     

Pro Basketball
Can anybody out there look at me straight faced and tell me without even smirking that NBA officials do not show favoritism and that the NBA is free from conspiracies and inconsistencies? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Case and point, I went to game 4 of the Western Conference Finals between the Jazz and Spurs. Steve Javie, the head referee, is a ruthless tyrant that reigns with terror on teams he doesn’t particularly like. Just as Joey Crawford would like to pick a fight with Tim Duncan, I don’t think it would be far fetched to say that, if given the chance, Steve Javie would love nothing more than to line up every player and coach on the Jazz roster and kick them square in the crotch. Although he didn’t do it physically, he did it mentally with the horrendous way he and his crew handled this game. Not only did he kick out Derek Fisher, who has been in the top 5 for “Sportsman of the Year” every year for years, but he also refused to call fouls on the Spurs. Riddle me this Batman, how did the Jazz lose by double digits despite having fewer turnovers and shooting over 53% from the field? I’ll tell you how, by the officials giving the Spurs 20+ free throws in the 4th and the Jazz 2. Here’s an interesting fact, the officials called fouls 90% of the time that the Spurs drove to the basket, and 10% of the time the Jazz did the same. Can you tell me there was that much difference in the physicality on both ends? I think not. Do you really blame the fans for getting a little boisterous and chanting “REFS YOU (OPPOSITE OF BLOW)! REFS YOU (OPPOSITE OF BLOW)!”? Good thing Jazz fans don’t consume as much alcohol as other NBA fans or there might have been another Palace Brawl.

NFL
**NEWSFLASH** JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A FOOTBALL PLAYER YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO BREAKING THE LAW! It seems like there are more convicts in the NFL than there is in every other professional sport combined. It will be interesting to see if Commissioner Roger Goodell throws the hammer down on Michael Vick for his dog fighting regime. Vick danced his way around alleged possession of marijuana, so I don’t see anything coming of this current case. I hope Vick hires a good legal counsel or he might say something stupid on the stand like, “Your Honor, I thought that dog fighting is legal where cock fighting is legal……cock fighting is legal right???”

Baseball
I’d now like to take the time to make a personal announcement. I have meddled over this decision for many, many years. While my parents don’t like it, and lot of friends don’t support it, I feel I will receive enough support from others to sustain and validate my decision. Here it goes, I am attracted to baseball! I’ve never been a supporter of baseball and never had a team, although I would secretly watch the World Series every year growing up in my room with the door locked so my parents wouldn’t know what I was doing. I am strangely attracted to the competitiveness of the sport and having “a team” to root for. Not only am I coming out as a baseball fan, but also a San Francisco Giants fan. Why San Francisco? Well, I think it’s fairly obvious, but for those who don’t know let me give you the rundown. First, Barry Bonds is awesome. I’ve always liked him and have never wavered on my support of him through this ridiculoius steroids investigation by MLB. Will he beat Hank Aaron’s homerun record? Yes. Should it be in the record books? Yes. Should he be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Yes! You can’t tell me “steroids” gave Bonds the fluid motion of his swing. Second, what’s cooler than home run balls landing in a bay to be had amongst the person with the swiftest swing of a net or strongest swing of an oar in the general direction of the other people going after the ball. And third, I like the 49ers, so it only makes sense to like the Giants too, right? Because I’m new at this baseball thing, I reserve the right to change teams if “my team” is really bad. Expos fans reserved that right and shipped their team to Washington DC.

Brett Favre – Please Retire NEXT Year

Brett Favre has more than accomplished what he set out to do in the NFL. When Favre came into the league, there were droves of people that pronounced his name “Fav-ray,” I still do. Favre brought back a Super Bowl title to the Green Bay Packers, has won 3 MVPs, brought tears to many frozen cheeseheads, and was behind the scenes in the now infamous “Lambeau Leap.” Didn’t you just love how hard the Broncos tried during their Super Bowl runs to make their “Mile High Salute” just as/if not more popular and failed miserably? Favre has also made his mark on the record books, he holds the NFL records for most consecutive starts (237) and most consecutive 3,000 yard seasons (15). Favre needs just 7 TD passes, 2 more wins, 3,900 yards passing, and 5 interceptions to become the NFL all-time leader in each of those respective categories. With that said, I can understand why he would come back for one more year, but anything after that will just be another sports star at the slaughter, like Michael Jordan with the Washington Wizards. Watching “His Airness” dunk those last couple of seasons was like watching Oliver Miller dunk…in slow motion. It’s been a good run Brett, you have your spot in Canton, so just play your last season, retire, and move on with life. Your now gray hairs will always be remembered and your legend has been solidified at the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field!