One of the biggest differences between college and NFL Football games is the ability to look at the college schedule and know that storylines and meaning exists before Snap No. 1. Go look at the 2010 NFL schedule and tell me what has you excited. The Falcons vs. New Orleans (twice) looks important and worth looking forward to locally. I know that the NFL East round-robin looks good. Donovan McNabb vs. the Eagles twice. Dallas vs. them all is good. Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore smells like a slugfest two times over. New England gets Indianapolis again in November. Vikings vs. Saints as long as Favre is playing (sorry, but love him or REALLY hate him, it is a completely different game to open the season if "love me please" Brett isn't under center).

I have my eye on San Francisco this year. The Jets are a blowhard attraction. Young QBs across the league (Bradford/Tebow/Leinart/Kolb/Stafford) ...

And by "around here," I mean here, there AND everywhere when it comes to the world of sports and its periphery.

From the curious to the unexplainable to outright stupidity of it all, I present to you some of the things that have me scratching my head:

1. He had the panties in his lap?

2. This whole thing -- if you are a Hawks fan, make sure you're
sitting down. And not eating or drinking.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arn-tellem/a-robust-cup-of-joe_b_635159.html?view=print

Highlights of this nonsense:

"With two defenders all over him, Joe Johnson, all 6'8" and 225 pounds of him, leaped, spun and chucked in a line drive. Three seconds later he stole the ball and was double-teamed in the low post with no escape route humanly possible. So Joe did something inhuman -- making a 180-degree turn and lofting a perfect lob pass to a teammate beneath the rim."

EDITORIAL -- "chucked in ...

It will not sit on a shelf next to the best works of Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Pearl Buck isn't worried that "The Good Earth" just got voted off the island.

I don't think "Call me Graeme" will replace "Call me Ishmael" in literary history. If Dickens was writing the definitive book on Pebble Beach 2010, it might have opened:

"It was the worst of times, it was the worser of times."

I have NO problem with a guy we know next-to-nothing about winning this tournament. That, by itself, might have been a rally-around type story.

 

First European to win in 40 years. Instant national hero. Dad in the house on Father's Day. Pub and drinking references everywhere. Hell, the guy was talking to the camera and the world as he was walking up to finish the most important hole he will EVER play. Wished me and you a Happy Father's Day ...

With all that is going on in the sports world -- College Football expansion and re-alignment ... the Braves' climb to first place ... NBA Finals and impending free agency, the "story" I'm thinking about the most is the 2010 WORLD CUP.

I mean it. I have NO idea how it will go. Don't know more than 10 guys playing in it. Can't ignore the world BILLION though. As in how many people will be watching -- maybe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/why-fifas-claim-of-one-billion-tv-viewers-was-a-quarter-right-438302.html

I think the thing that interests me most is the fact that the hero or goat of this whole thing will be known by most of the world -- fame or infamy on the line brings a heightened pressure to this whole thing. Winning for God and country raises the stakes to the ultimate.

Here's how I envision soccer; give me this and I am in.

Greatest Save Ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVb89Cmrtk&feature=related

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