Week 03 – 2004/2005

The past couple of weeks, there’s been a piece of paper on every table with the point spreads listed for every game. It’s probably not a good sign for the Steelers when they’re 1-point dogs to a team on which half of the players have family members in shelters. And speaking of the tragedies in [...]

Week 02 – 2004/2005

Week 2 is off to an inauspicious start. I get to the place at 10 ’til noon, a full hour and ten minutes before kickoff, and there are already douchebags occupying my table. Not cool. I could deal with it if the table was full of guys who were excited about a particular game and [...]

Week 01 – 2004/2005

At first, I didn’t like the idea of the NFL opening on Thursday night. It was important to me that the first NFL Sunday remain special and pure. It’s the same reason that you don’t listen to the band’s CD right before you go into the concert. You want the real thing to hit you [...]