Who is Steele Jantz?

a) the cop played by Brian Bosworth in “Stone Cold”
b) the fake company Jennifer Garner worked for on “Alias”
c) the starting quarterback for Iowa State University.

NFC Divisions:
Philly doesn’t live up to the hype but against the overrated Giants and Cowboys and disorganized Washington they go 11-5.
The Packers are young and will be healthier. Vikings and Bears head down and the Lions aren’t there yet. GB goes 12-4.
Atlanta caught a lot of breaks last year. Most people are on the bandwagon for them to drop – go the opposite and win the division.
St. Louis emerges against inferior foes, Bradford is up and coming, Jackson has new life and they shock into a double-digit win season.
Wild Cards: Despite the crowd that loves the Lions… I love them too. 9-7, last man in. The Saints pull a WC game again.

AFC Divisions:
Patriots will play their game of valiant no-stars after their golden boy QB and hit 12 wins.
The Steelers – see Patriots, New England. Easier division-foe schedule helps them hit 12 wins as well.
Houston, in a make it or fire the coach season, hits double-digit wins while the rest of the division flounders.
San Diego, see Texans, Houston, overcomes their own coaching and early season frailty and wins the division title.
Wild Cards: Jets and Ravens are just bad enough not to win their divisions, but good enough to beat everyone else.

Playoffs:
Eagles over Lions, Saints over Rams, Texans over Ravens, Chargers over Jets
Packers over Saints, Eagles over Falcons, Steelers over Chargers, Patriots over Texans
Packers over Eagles, Patriots over Steelers
Packers repeat, over the Patriots 31-28.

MVP: Tom Brady
Offensive Rookie: AJ Green
Defensive Rookie: Von Miller
Coaches fired…Washington, NY Giants, Bengals, Jaguars
Next year’s draft order… Cincinnati, Seattle, Carolina, Buffalo, Tennessee, Carolina…

Did you see the Jags cut Garrard to save and not pay his $9 mil salary?
They will start the rotting corpse of Josh McCown at QB and make Blaine Gabbert come off the bench.

Interesting fact – 50% of the Jags roster didn’t know Josh McCown was still in the NFL, 49% mistook him for Cade McNown and the other 1% wanted to know why the team cut the guy who played Buck Rogers on tv.

Five years ago I give you these two choices.

a – in 2011 US citizens will pool their money and, after giving 40 million to charity, everyone gets a turn beating Michael Vick with a stick.
or
b – in 2011 Michael Vick will have a 100 million contract, with nearly 40 million of it guaranteed.

How many would select ‘b’? I imagine it would not be everyone.

Did the Big Ten name their splits ‘Lame Name’ and ‘Lamer Name’? And how are they grouped? There is no North-South or geographical split.

If you have ‘Leaders’ and ‘Legends’, does the new Nebraska entry become a leader? They should end up ranked higher than any other conference foe except Wisconsin. Then again, maybe they are a Legendary team. Who knows? Just tell me if tOSU and Michigan are in the same division.

Can someone tell me the difference between Anna Kournikova and Danica Patrick?

Both are good enough at their sport to beat the average person, but not good enough to be #1 against other professionals.
Both are attractive, but not so hands-down-gorgeous that they could stop passing traffic and win awards.
Both are pleasant enough, but not so compelling or engaging that you’d have time to hear them interviewed with regularity.

I’ve bowled – never been great at it and never loved it. I’ve watched bowling – never gotten a lot out of it. For some reason I always loved it when ABC ran the bowling shows on the weekends when I was a kid. Somehow they made this totally repetitious activity a fascinating event. I don’t even watch them now, but then it was so cool.

Not to take anything away from the World Cup, but why exactly are they down on the idea of the Golden Goal? They think the games will go for too long? I don’t think so. That’s why you have depth and fitness and training. Institute a golden goal and play a 30 minute half and if neither team scores award each team one more sub so they can bring in fresh legs again, then keep playing 30 minute periods with 5 minute breaks between. Who doesn’t love the excitement of the GG? Anyone can win on one slip, one mis-step, one broken pass.

Bring back the GG – solving by PKs may have an element of thrill but I firmly believe that you resolve the game in overtime the same way you play the game in regulation, regardless of the sport.

Why is it that some people can’t just accept a goal in the 122nd minute as a great moment? Do we need to immediately rank it? Are we required to compare it to every other great sports moment? It should be sufficient to say it was great and leave it be.

Was it the best moment ever? No. First, it’s in a quarterfinal game. The best moments almost always are in the last game.
Also against it – it didn’t win the game. It’s difficult to see anything that doesn’t win or lose the game as the best moment. You can really help yourself if the final shot/kick/catch/throw/run wins the game. Note to soccerheads – bring back the golden goal, will ya?
There’s always a rush to take the most recent action and rate it 10 times higher than it should be considered so check back with me in a month and see if anyone can give the names of anyone involved.

http://search.espn.go.com/uni-watch/

I love that ESPN actually features a page about changes, great and small, to uniforms in sports.