all football all the time

thankfully, being crazy broke coincides with the most exciting two days in football. so we are gonna wrap some stuff in bacon, drink up the remenants of the new years eve stash, and get ready for a long football weekend. before i pick my teams i just want to point out, the nfl spends the last four weeks of its season reliving past glory like no other pro sports organziation. all you have to do is turn on any one of the espns, at any given moment, and you are almost sure to come across one of their nfl films odes to the greatness of football. and those nfl films people have a way of making it all seem like you are watching something miraculous, as joe montana negotiates his team down the field, or john elway pulls a victory out in the last moments of the last playoff... it's like any minute they'll do a run-up, nfl films style, of the birth of jesus. and the nfl films guy, in that nfl films voice, will go "it looked like they were out of chances...until they found the stable. and then, everything changed. what happened next would go on to become the most famous birth in history. but first john elway would have to mount a drive the likes of which had never been seen before. It would come to be known as, "the drive".

that's one of the four billion things i love about football. the fact that they name things "the drive" or "the kick" or "the catch".

anyhow. i'll be watching alot of football highlight shows. in fact, as long as nfl films is involved, i'm there.

here are my picks(now that there are only four teams left, i'm not too lazy to decide who i like):

Colts/Ravens: Colts. Go Peyton! "They're not saying boo, they're saying moooo-vers"

Raiders/Eagles: I don't know where this comes from, but I loathe the eagles. And you can't hate the saints this season, so there. decision made. also, for some reason i haven't had the opportunity to see many actual saints games, so i look forward to checking out reggie bush, who ab still contends should be the rookie of the year(holla at your vince young. hook 'em horns)

Bears/Seahawks: you know, there are few things i could care less about more than the outcome of this game. the bears, for all their hype, i find to be a snore. multiply that times a thousand and you have how i feel about the seahawks. in fact, to sound like a total girl, the only appealing thing about the seahawks is the color combination on their uniforms. whatever. I am gonna go with the seahawks. and i take them cause their uniforms are cool. fuck off.

Chargers/Pats: ah yes, the piece d' resistance...the chargers/patriots. this one is nearly impossible for me to call, since my football knowledge is still pretty limited, and both these teams seem about even to me...i thought the patriots were a bit shaky until i watched them run mercilessly over chad and the jets last weekend. and granted, it was chad and the jets, but holy christ. after halftime they might as well have jumped in a tank and started moving down the field in it, cause there was no stopping them. i would still like to see the chargers do it, so i am picking san diego. go chargers.

whoot whoot. well, if i make it through the weekend without some sort of bacon-induced cardiac event, i'll report back when all is said and done. also, i wanna just go ahead and apologize to the chargers for potentially incurring tom brady's wrath...i think we all remember what happened the last time i bet against tom. he broke brett favre over his knee like a pretzel stick.