Sniggerlings "NFL: Deal Me In"

NFL: Deal Me In

      You can deal me in to the NFL season now. I’ve already ante-d up with $19.99 for NFL.com’s “Rewind”, only to find NBC is streaming the games live. I think I’ve finished mourning for Tim Tebow. As a person of faith, I take the screw job Tebow got from the NFL hard. Nevertheless, Peyton Manning is setting records for my team, the Denver Broncos, and I just can’t sit out anymore.

      I wore my John Elway jersey today. I was upset to find that the number 7 is on backwards on the shirt. I took a look at myself in the bathroom after I had put on my jersey, just to see how natty I looked, and was disturbed to see the number backwards in the mirror. Nothing I can do about it now. I hope a backwards “7” isn’t bad luck for my team.

      I thought about this, too: I discovered the ethnic origin of John Elway‘s family name. He must come from swine. You, see, “Elway” is actually pig latin for “well”, like in the popular question, “Are ou-yay eeling-fay Elway oday-tay?”(translation, “’sup?”)

      I also noticed that the second most popular Green Bay Packer, in Yahoo’s “Related People” is -- after Aaron Rodgers -- wide receiver James Jones; problem is, the picture they had next to the wide receiver’s name belonged to the actor James Earl Jones of The Great White Hope, The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, voice over for Darth Vader in Star Wars, etc(born in 1931.) And, if you Google-ed just “James Jones”, you’d find out he was in World War II and wrote the novel From Here to Eternity.. Poor guy. The only one more forgotten than him was Pope Francis, who, last I heard, was unknown to The Wiki-types. They still had Pope Benedict in office.

      Have a nice day.mm