Anticipation

LT scores a couple touchdowns last season and people start piling on to the bandwagon.

ps.  wheres the sarcasm font when you need it??  Its quite hard not to enjoy watching the chargers play. Between LT, rivers and merrimen, you got yourself a highlight reel every game.

much either but the last I looked Landry benched Staubach because he was wearing down due to age.

year watching football.

Hope you're right!  I too think he'll be the man this year, and frankly though once Oden comes into his own he'll probably be less replaceable, LMA will probably always have the advantage on PPG.  That said I'm not holding my breath on 22-11 and 2 blocks per game, but I don't think he'll be that far off... if he can average 20-10 and 2 blocks per game that will exceed my expectations... I've been thinking around 18-10(hopefully) and 2 blocks.

I have a good friend named "Dave"--a.k.a. "Big Dave", "Photographer Dave", and "Why Are All of Our Wives and Girlfriends Staring at Him Dave"--who is a huge Chargers fan.  He also has a spouse who is less than happy about the idea of them getting a satellite dish, seeing as how he's still a full-time student.  However I, not being a full-time student anymore, have a dish.  So last year we put our heads together and figured between us we could probably afford the NFL season pass, even with his main employment being begging for loose change from undergrads in the commons.  He said, "I have an NFL team but no NBA team."  I said, "I have an NBA team but no NFL team."  The chocolate and the peanut butter merged and so far the hybrid Chargers/Blazers union is working out just swell.  The first year I rooted for the Bolts they made the playoffs, had the league MVP, amassed an amazing number of wins, and became heralded as the Most Talented Young Team in the NFL.  The first year Dave rooted for the Blazers saw the advent of Brandon Roy, the hiring of Kevin Pritchard, and the 1-in-20 critical hit roll that brought us Greg Oden.  The Blazers are shortly going to be heralded as the Most Talented Young Team in the NBA.  I'd say we both got a pretty good deal.

--Dave

my second favorite team.  Might have something to do with the fact my dad commuted between GB and DC every week for 12 years.  I painted my football helmet yellow and green and attached the Green Bay decal to each side.  I wore Ray Nitchkie's #66 and have an autographed copy of Jerry Krause's book.  When Vince Lombardie came to coach the Redskins it was like the second coming of JC.

When I was growing up in Southern Oregon, the Steelers/Cowboys were going head to head.  My best buddy down the block had the Steelers helmet and gear (I think it was because his pop used to coach Lost River High School and they had the same colors) so I gravitated to the 'boys and it stuck ever since. Super Bowl 12 remains my favorite to this day.

doesnt even sound like dave...dont throw us off the track fatty, back to the normal fatty please..

that there's no sex in the champaigne room.

I had no idea.  I thought it was like golf or tennis, year round races and crap.  Unless golf n' tennis have a season I don't know about also...

Nascar is awful.  I can't imagine why someone would like to watch it, live or otherwise.  But oh well, it's not the only activity that's beyond by comprehension.  I never even noticed it as a youngster growing up in the west, but my fiance is from the South and when staying there I am continually amazed how big it is.  I mean, I knew it was popular, but it's up there with football down south...

Nascar fans down there though have a hard time imagining someone not liking Nascar, so I am just as wierd to them.  But I'm the one who is right in thinking they are wierd for liking Nascar and are also extra wierd for thinking it's wierd to not like Nascar.  It's not even fun to play Nascar in video game form.

I've been to a few Dodger games this season and it was fun, but I can't watch baseball on TV no more.  Too too slow.  When I was a kid, however, I could watch any pair of baseball teams play and have fun watching it; now I can only do that with NBA basketball.

My attention span has gotten worse I guess, which isn't the norm (I think).

Hockey is fun in person as well, but I wouldn't even think of watching it on TV.  I'd rather watch a Devil Rays spring training game than hockey, thank you very much.

Just like the shorter days and colder weather, football arriving subconsciously signals that creamy NBA goodness is upon us soon.

Football seems much more fun on TV watching with a crowd than in person in the cold, but maybe a hardcore setting like Green Bay or (insert hardcore fan city) and the energy from the fans would make up for the loss of multi camera slow mo instant replay coverage the televised NFL games have... it's just a sport made so much better through the medium of television, it makes seeing a game live underwhelming.

That's my take anyways.  Aside from your brief Nascar comment, I have said nothing that relates to your post.  Except perhaps this question that aches in my soul:

Who is more popular in Egypt: Abdelnaby or Rick Fox?  I hope they burn Fox in effigy for being such a horrible ambassador of Egyptian NBA action.  He gives the word "greasy" a bad name.

And are the Celtics the team to follow for Egypt?  They had the only two Egyptian NBAers I can recall.

I trust you are an expert on these matters and I shall eagerly await your conclusive response.  Thank you for your time.

Mortimer

PS: If Rick Fox is, in fact, NOT of Egyptian decent, I apologize heartily for my mistake.  No country wishes to claim him as their own; he is a man without a home.

Barrett and Rice lip-locking on camera.  I mean, I know Mike Rice voted five times himself but who's the other vote?

--Dave