Skin Chooser
| Insomniac's Corner - A July Thing |
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| Written by Tom Dugan | |
| Sunday, 08 July 2007 | |
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Not much is happening in the NFL. It’s a July thing. NFL Europa went belly up and I’ve yet to poke fun. Could the problem have been the “a” they latched on this season? The additional syllable added huge marketing expenses? Perhaps the league just couldn’t take all that pressure from the adoring German fans. Things seemed fine, but suddenly the league was drunk on the bathroom floor trying to eat a cheeseburger. Although The European League was a lousy entertainment product, it had developed into a decent developmental league. Its demise creates a great opportunity for the Canadian Football League, where the quality of play is already superior to the European league. Unfortunately, Canada won’t bite. The CFL already draws about 30,000 fans a game, and they don’t want to be thought of as a minor league. That leaves the door wide open for a NFL collaboration with the Arena League in 2008. I was playing around last night and found one of those sites that gives the number one song on any day in history. I punched in my date of birth and it turned out that the top song was Paul Mauriat’s “Love is Blue.” I’m so old that the number one hit on the day I was born was played on a harpsichord. This is the first year in about six years that I’ll be without the NFL Sunday Ticket, and I’m not all that convinced I will miss it all that much. Trying to watch all the games at the same time is often more stressful than fun. I tend to spend too much time trying not to miss anything. It’s a little like trying to juggle live chickens. I haven’t had the NFL Channel for a couple of weeks because Comcast recently won a court ruling allowing them to make the network part of a premium sports package. I don’t really miss the channel yet, but sooner or later I’m going to have to wait on hold for the next available representative. I’m irritated with Comcast, but it really has little to do with the additional fee. I’m disgruntled because, in order too change my programming, I’ve got to call in and speak with a real person. Darn humans. I miss DirecTV already. I heard Whiz newsman James Bebermeyer, Jr. was suspended for the first four weeks of the season by the Whiz front office for violation of the site’s condiment abuse policy after he allegedly put ketchup on a hotdog on the 4th. Bebo plans to appeal the suspension, claiming some fries were in the area and the alleged misuse of ketchup was due to bad aim. The Falcons signed Noriaki Kinoshita, the Japanese Wide Receiver who played the last three seasons with the Amsterdam Admirals. I want him to make the team so NFL.com can make a sequel to the TJ Whoseyourmamma commercial. “Biggest pick of the draft. Fifth pick, sixth round, Norelco Kawasaki. Lock it up. Chaaaampionship” Former Chief and current FOX broadcaster, Bill Maas, was arrested in Illinois during a routine traffic stop on July 6th for the alleged possession of cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana and a handgun. Bill must have forgotten that he’s no longer a NFL player. A 27-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was also arrested. Unfortunately for Maas, it was not Julie Romanowski. |
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