For several reasons.

There are a few players on the Falcons with whom I have a special connection.  Tony Gonzalez spent more than a decade as a standout tight end for my Kansas City Chiefs and Sean Weatherspoon, William Moore, and Chase Coffman were part of the incredible Mizzou Tigers teams of the late 2000’s. 

But, apart from those connections, I’ve just always had good experiences with Georgia people.  It’s like being around Canadians.  They’re really nice.  Not only were they really sweet to me in Columbia when the Bulldogs destroyed my Tigers in September (We had folks offering us free beer after the game, and not in snarky asshole-ish way.), but when I traveled to Atlanta (inadvertently booking me and three other white boys into a hotel ‘in the hood’, their words) they were also sweet to us.  The Chiefs got hammered that day in the Georgia Dome, and we had Falcons fans reassuring us: “Don’t worry about it, you guys’ll get it next year!” they said. 

But I’ll never forget the kindness of the folks ‘in the hood’ (Again, their words. We had several folks ask us literally why we were hanging out in the hood.) who made four out-of-place white boys feel at home.

Your team has one of the most talented defensive units in the league and you were playing a team starting a rookie quarterback and zero elite receivers. Your team has no one to blame but themselves for failing to wrap the game up in the first fifty-nine minutes, and frankly,winners don’t let it come down to the lastplay.

Now you know how I feel about Alex Kingston.

Cheers.

1. A computer that can run Skyrim in my lap.
2. A cool winter day I can enjoy from inside my warm home.
3. A 32 inc high definition TV playing football to my right.

It is for goofy, clever stunts like this that I really like Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe.

This video is definitely good for a laugh folks, especially if you’re a sports fan.

I just hope Chris remembers to double-pad that poor quarterback of his when they come to Kansas City, because Tamba Hali and Derrick Johnson will be out for his blood, as will all of Arrowhead.

Why the eff should I care? 

In most places, the shittiest seats in the stadium will still cost sixty dollars a pop, with a minimum of twenty to forty dollars for parking. (If you’re fortunate.)  And, if they don’t sell every damn seat in the stadium, I might not get to watch my favorite team on television.

Players will continue to make at least ten times the average salary of American workers, even if they’ve never done anything in the NFL before, and the owners will still refuse to open the books for fear that the public will find out just how badly they are being price gouged.

Congrats to the players and owners for sticking it to the fans, yet again. From the bottom of my heart, go fuck yourselves.