>>>After enduring kickball and stickball and good walks spoiled -
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>>>The Browns and the Packers at Lambeau Field - THE NFL IS BACK !!!!
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>>>God's in his Heaven. All's right with the world.
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>>The NFL should hire you to work in the PR department ;-)
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>>Actually that would be a spectacularly inspired arrangement, as off the wall a thought as it was. Win-win, as the hoary cliche goes. (It just came out that way, Charles, don't go there, lol). I am not holding my breath waiting for it to happen. You pride yourself on not having had a boss in however many years or decades -- kudos -- and the cultural fit with the corporate, buttoned down NFL might not be quite perfect, ahem. If all that stuff were off the board you would come up with some visionary ideas for them and would be well renumerated. Oh well. Besides, the jobs are probably already filled by the nephews and grandnephews of owners ;-)
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>>Probably one of my sillier ideas. The NFL is big business and they undoubtedly have non-legacy PR help to the tune of bazillions a year. That's part of how they find themselves with their fingers on (up?) the pulse of American spectator sports. There is no question the NFL is the leading spectator sport in this country, and that wasn't true until recently. It just keeps pulling away.
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>>I'll be watching, too, once the real games start ;-) I draw the line at exhibition games. Oh, sorry, they're called preseason games now, the work of an earlier marketing savant. And season ticket holders are obliged to pay for those games along with the real games, at the same price. Quite amazing.
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>>PS -- It may amuse you to know the spell checker keeps trying to change "renumerated" to "remunerated" ;-)
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>PSSST. Seattle's defense is looking quick again this year.

Maybe they are! Go, you fighting Seahawks.

Same as the Bears' offensive line.... They have been so bad the past few years the hope is Jay Cutler -- a whole other series of questions there -- doesn't wind up a grease spot. One never knows where the blow may fall. (Surely Graham Greene did not have American football in mind when he wrote that sentence).