NFL Kickoff 2010: No Line Needed

Finally, some real football. After suffering through the Summer of No Hitting (and less Steroids) in baseball, it's about time that the NFL showed up. Let's all enjoy the last year of the collective bargaining agreement, and what may be the last year of the current NFL as we know it. They're already screwing up overtime because Brett Favre decided to end another NFC championship game with a horrible interception. Thanks, Brett! All we need now is for the Vikings to finish 11-5 and miss the playoffs while the NFC West winner goes 7-9 and gets a 4 seed. What will they do for Brett after that? Maybe they'll rearrange the playoffs on a BCS style system, where Brett Favre becomes Notre Dame and just has to win 6 games to make it into a BCS bowl game.

Don't mistake this as an anti-Favre rant. I've loved watching him play over the last 34 years of my life. And sure, the Favre drama this summer was substantially less than last summer, but that's just because of The Summer of LeBron and "The Decision" (an entire blog rant of it's own).

Anyways, Dre and I are kicking off Year 22 of NFL picks this week. Which means one thing:

We're really getting old....

I am not even waiting for the line on this game. I know I'm letting Dre off the hook by agreeing with his self-imposed Favre Rule, but I have a feeling the Saints are going to try to finish the job they set out on in the NFC Championship game: retire Brett for good.

Saints squoosh (squoosh is an official IMLD term for "whoop the other teams' ass")