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[sigma7]

The NFL unveils some 2006 schedule highlights. Two bits of awesomeness:

-- A Monday night doubleheader (!!) on Sept. 11 (...?), Vikings at Washington the early game, Raiders at Bolts the late (starts at 10:15 Eastern!).

-- A Thanksgiving tripleheader, as the Chefs join the traditional Lions and Cowboys as Turkey-Day hosts, hosting (respectively) Denver, Miami and Tampa Bay. The bad news? Broncs-Chefs game is on NFL Network only. What the hell?

Two steps forward, one back. Meh. At least I know which icon to use.

Comments

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Um...how many enthusiastic 9-year-old NFL fans on the east coast are going to be pissed come September 11?

That's idiotic that the Chiefs/Broncos game is only going to be on the NFL Network.

Lions/Miami? Pillow fight. The only reason I watched Detroit last year was because me and my cousin were having a battle of the Fantasy Football teams.

Dallas/Tampa Bay? I've ALLLLLLWAYS hated Dallas--it comes from living there for 12 years during the Aikman/Irvin/Sanders(Deion, not Barry)/Smith we-win-the-Super-Bowl-ever-year era. I liked Tampa when they had Gramatica and now...they're regular contenders for last in their league.

Next year is the Colts year, mark my words.

I'm just ready for August and college football to start up again.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Unforgivable: buying the team, firing Tom Landry and replacing him with your college roommate. Could never like Aikman or Emmitt. And don't get me started on Michael "Human Pharmacy" Irvin or Deion, whom I abhor and loathe. Even Terence Newman isn't enough to wipe the taint from that team.

I miss Martin Gramatica (and I miss teasing one of our copy-editors about her quasi-romance with the excitable kicking man). But all hail the Colts for jumping Vanderjerk. "Idiot kicker" personified. Well, not as bad as Sebastian Janikowski, but any civilized country would put him behind bars.

I concur, though -- even sans the Edge, how can you not like the Colts next year?

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

Igh, it's always a scary day when the Raiders come to town (not for the football, necessarily, but for the obligatory parking-lot fistfights, grandstand riots and occasional knifings that come with such a visit). Having them come on a day like 9/11, though? It's been a while since I did any research into omens and portents, but that's just flat-out unsettling.

For how many consecutive years must the Lions suck before they stop getting Thanksgiving games?

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

But you see, this is why you come down to visit, because some of us HAVE the NFL network.

Awwwww yeeeeeah.