NFL Week 1 - And so it begins

There are three days in the NFL Season that gets “The Hoch” all hot and bothered – the trade deadline, the Super Bowl and today, the opening game of the season. This is a time when everything is new and we all prepare to watch our teams start their trek to February.

This is a day when we look at our favorite squad through a different pair of glasses then last year. Maybe we are happy that they made that signing or we are devastated that we lost that future Hall of Fame Left Guard to the Minnesota Vikings. You might be ready to see how that draft pick works out or what play that new coach calls on the first drive. Perhaps you are excited because you have a Runningback that tore up the league last year and you drafted him first in your Fantasy league...

Or maybe you are just like me and you love every aspect of every game that you watch. It is a grand chess match, filled with the smartest men in the business attempting to be smarter than their counterpart on the other side. It is a time of camaraderie, a time when you might walk down the street, see someone in a jersey similar to yours and scream something about how great your team is.

And today it all starts. Today the NFL season opens with a game that true Football fans will love: a battle o f two tough, smash-mouth, angry, hard-working, blue-collar teams with Defenses to rival the rest. It isn’t every year that you get to watch a game that includes two of the best Defenses in the league go up against each other, both teams with a Runningback that might be able to exploit it and with a Quarterback that is more likely to throw one touchdown and no interceptions then four touchdowns.

Tonight it is the:

TENNESSEE TITANS
AT
PITTSBURGH STEELERS (5.5)

So who wins?

I don’t know. Watch the game. (But my money is on the Steelers and the points; while my heart is on the Titans)