Published 1/19/2009
by Mark Hebert
at Bleacher Report - NFL
As an Oakland Raiders football fan, my hopes of a Silver and Black Super Bowl are over as fast as they start lately and I have to find other things to key in on during the NFL season to keep me interested...Al Davis showing overhead projections just doesn’t do it for me.
Fantasy football goes a long way in the regular season to keep me interested, and football for football’s sake is a good of reason as any to post up in the La-Z-Boy and down adults beverages and pretzels.
But as the post season rolls around and teams start to get eliminated, I start to key-in on some of the smaller subtleties of football—from announcers to glitches in the games—that keep me tuned in, for the most part.
Yesterday’s conference championships gave me plenty to think about, besides the fact that for the most part that both games were entertaining, so I made notes and today I will Monday morning QB about aspects of Sunday’s events that, to my beer-filled mind, were ...
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