after spending an afternoon and part of a night explaining american football to two of my four favorite colombian women (cat and her mom; the other two are cat's grandmother and shakira), i have come to the conclusion that it is a strange and complicated game ("it" being football, not explaining football to colombian women). i feel about it the same way i feel about the english language--glad i'm not picking it up late in life, but enamored of its rough, sprawling splendor (if i may wax grandiosely silly).

yell "go pats" with me,
TR

p.s. the debate over the instant replay rule has quietly been settled over the past few seasons, and the fact that nobody debates it anymore testifies to its efficacy. the nfl continues to be the best league out there, and football the best sport.

also, go pats.