NFL Week 1: Oh good God

[sigma7]

Well, I didn't show up for an opening-week game again this year. Neither did the Chefs. In their infinite wisdom, the Chefs cut Scottish kicker Lawrence Tynes and, out of the gate, missed their first field goal (hint: cutting a veteran kicker is a karma backlash waiting to happen; ask the Chargers and remind the Saints) and are now apparently playing with a draftee who'll be lucky to kick 'em through if he was standing on the crossbar. I watched one of my fantasy players, Eddie Kennison, catch a pass and, untouched, start hobbling toward the sideline after hurting his hamstring, and damned if that didn't set the tone for the day. Fumbles, interceptions and just some really awful play from KC -- Houston's one of the more beatable teams on its schedule, even with the Texans' off-season improvements. I didn't expect the Chefs to be great, but I didn't expect them to be this awful. They're about as bad as you can be and still have Tony "Maybe I should play QB" Gonzales and Larry "What's a training camp for without mah money" Johnson. It'll take a clever and devious coaching staff to make this team a contender in a tight AFC West, and Herm Edwards and Gunther Cunningham are not it. Final: 20-3, Texans, and this is just one installment in what's going to be as long as a sixteen-game season can get (yes, it will only be sixteen games long).

Hearing "Turn it On Again" in a GMC ad was just a startling experience. I think that's the first time I've heard Genesis used in a commercial in twenty years....