Well the NFL Playoffs are getting hotter and hotter as we get ready for a Conference Championship weekend that should be one of the best in years. Whoever claims they know what is coming is obviously not paying attention. All four teams have surprised a lot of people, and what happens next is anyone's guess. I highly suggest that if you are a fan, you get yourself some good seats. Whether is Philadelphia Eagles tickets, Arizona Cardinals tickets, Baltimore Ravens tickets or Pittsburgh Steelers tickets, you cannot pass up a chance to see your team go for a shot at the Superbowl.

While the NFL football season is in full swing right now, many of our visitors are into College Football, which is entering the final stretch right about now. Its been a great year for college football fans, and with this crop of teams it should be a very interesting bowl season. I wanted to let you know about this BCS Championship site. If you are into college football, you should definitely check it out because it has a ton of good info.

Here is a quick look at what I think about the first 4 weeks of this young NFL season:
1. Brett Favre has not lost any passion for the game of football. 6 TD's last week...c'mon, that only happens in Madden games!
2. I do not see the Patriots being very good without Tom Brady. I just dont see that "it" factor with Matt Cassel. Cassel's stats look like this through 3 games: 448 yards passing, with 2 TD's and 1 INT. Cassel MUST get Randy Moss the ball. BYE week came at a great time for the Patriots!
3. Trent Edwards has the Bills in a great position in the AFC East. He very well may lead this team to the playoffs.

As a long time Colts fan that can remember the days of an empty RCA Dome, a starting QB named Jeff George, and a dropped Hail-Mary in the1995 AFC Champion game, it’s hard to find much to be picky about these days.

The Super Bowl Victory over the Bears following the 2006 NFL season was a long time coming, and in many ways an end to a journey that began years ago following a late night truck ride from Baltimore to Indianapolis. The Irony behind the victory on that rainy night in Miami is that most ‘true-blue’ Colts Fans probably weren’t dancing in the streets and celebrating their firm grasp of the elusive Lombardi trophy, but rather, like myself, sat isolated in their homes taking deep, deep sighs of relief (up and until the parade of course), and thinking “Finally!” You see with success comes expectations, and even most Jaguar Fans would have to admit the Colts have been an extremely successful franchise since Peyton Manning’s arrival in Indianapolis following the1997 draft.

When Vince Young was asked by Jimmy Kimmel if he was scared of the Madden Curse, Young replied "I prayed about it and we will see what happens."Has the famous Madden Curse struck again? Vince Young injured his quadriceps running out of bounds against Tampa Bay. I was curious about the other victims of the curse so I found out...

2000: It all started in 2000 when Barry Sanders and Dorsey Levens were on the cover. After this cover was released, Sanders surprisingly retired after only 10 seasons in the NFL. Levens only rushed for 224 yards after he was on the cover. He ran for 1,034 yards in 1999.

A few thoughts that may interest you...or not. I just hope you enjoy reading.

-Tom Brady will be in the top three best QB's to ever play the game of football before it is all said and done.

-Vinny Testaverde can still sling that football at 43 years old. He became the oldest starting quarterback to win a game in NFL history. He has thrown a TD pass in 21 straight seasons. Simply mind-blowing!

-Adrian Peterson is the real deal. 224 yards and 3 TD's today against Chicago. He will be Rookie of the Year.

-Is there anyone playing worse than the Rams right now? They are 0-6. Where are you Jax?

Tennessee Titans vs. Atlanta Falcons October 7, 2007

This might be the ugliest game I have seen in years…and at the same time one of the sweetest. Along with there being 14 penalties for a total of 106 yards, there were 7 turnovers. Tennessee had 5 and Atlanta had 2. Guess who won? Chances are you are incorrect. Tennessee ended up with the W in this one winning 20 to 13.
Vince Young did not have one of his superior games. He went 20 for 33 for 157 yards and 3 interceptions. From what I saw, he did not look comfortable all day. It may have to do with the Titans coming off a BYE week and they were not in the “groove”. The Offensive line blocked great for Vince, but he was making bad reads all day. When he completed a pass it was always for short yardage. He averaged 7.8 yards a completion. To be successful in the NFL, this stat will have to rise. Young’s best play of the game came on a 20 yard run. Also, it was disappointing to see Young run a poor 2 minute offense. I have seen Young run a good HUO, but not today. Again, maybe it was mental mistakes due to the BYE week. A good clock manager is an attribute that will come in time for Vince Young.

What is wrong with LaDanian Tomlinson and Larry Johnson? Want to hear some mind-blowing statistics from this season? Let me entertain you for a minute! In three games, Tomlinson has a total of 130 yards rushing and is averaging 43.3 yards a game. His longest run of the season is 11 yards. Even Matt Leinart, which is known as a stationary Quarterback has a twenty yard run this year. Last year, L.T. had more rushing yards in his first game vs. Oakland (131 yards) than he has in 3 games this year. Simply stunning! Lets take a look at Larry Johnson. He has a total of 140 rushing yards thus far.

"This world is big and wild and half-insane" sang the Kinks' Ray Davies, way back when Football Sherpa was just a lad. All these years later the world's still the same, just not quite as big, but even wilder and more insane, thanks to transportation and information technology, plus a little sprinkling of bonkers-dust, dropped from on high by strange beings only Football Sherpa has truly seen, up there in the high altitudes of Football Sherpadom. Even a legendary party animal like Davies failed to scale the heights required to catch a glimpse of what went on way up there. In fact, most rock 'n' rollers probably wouldn't have the stomach for it, with the possible exception of that crinkly-faced geezer who used to be human and still plays for the Rolling Stones. In fact, Football Sherpa says Keith Richards reminds him of his great-great-great-sherpa-grandfather, who lived at sub-zilch temperatures way up in the Himalayan ethers. But he had an excuse.

Ray Davies was a limey, like me, though, a fan of Arsenal Football Club, the game we think of as "real" football. But we limeys are forever captured by the nature of the game Americans also call football. It is the most straightforwardly linear affair we have ever seen, and not completely different from rugby, but different enough to warrant guffaws and scowls at the very least. But through it all, I wondered what it felt like to attend an NFL game, to actually have tickets to NFL games, and to sit in the bleachers, to discuss the NFL schedule, the various NFL team rosters and yardage with other American Football fanatics. Through the rare altitude of Football Sherpa's diamond-like mind, I was introduced to the glistening facets of NHL and its mysteries.

Speaking of altitudes containing rare beings, one glance at a photo taken from the plush interior of the Goodyear Blimp's hanging sky-lounge (I know, it probably sucks, but I like to picture the lounge as a very ornate chamber, a thickly carpeted room with antique settees and a rather fetching cocktail cabinet, from which media personnel take cut glass decanters full of whisky and gin and drink themselves into a crazed, howling frenzy, exhilarated and terrified by the sight of a packed American football stadium, while hanging from the belly of a gigantic helium-filled death-sausage) reveals a playing surface which is much longer than it is wide - reflecting this linearity of thought inherent in the American football philosophy. In short, an American football field is long and thin, and to be honest it really isn't all that long. I am tempted to suggest the helium-filled death sausage is as long, but that might be taking things too far.

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