After several years of opening its season on the Thursday
before the second Sunday in September, the National Football League schedule
begins on a Wednesday for the first time tonight.
At least that I can remember without bothering to look it
up. So, close enough. Apparently, some guy is giving a speech of some sort on Thursday that the network types believe is more important than football.
Regular-season games have been played on previous Wednesdays, but not since the days when games were broadcast via Morse Code and the losing team's mascot was sacrificed in an ornate post-game ritual.
As a special treat for Bills fans, the inaugural real game
of 2012 features the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, the Joker and Penguin
of Buffalo football nemeses.
Unfortunately, one team almost has to win. And since the
Cowboys have demonstrated a remarkable ability to lose close games in prime
time on NBC, where they are zero for their last seven, that will probably be
the Giants.
Let’s say 34-31, when trying to run out the clock with a
four-point lead, Tony Romo gets stripped of the ball, picks it up, gets spun
around and runs the wrong way to his own 1-yard line, where he fumbles again,
this time directly into the hands of Osi Umenyiora, who runs him over to score
the winning touchdown.
In the interest of encouraging envious loathing, here are a
couple of examples of why you hate the Cowboys and Giants. Or, conversely, why
you love them. If you are some kind of pervert.
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