Random Thoughts Update

It's September and that means football is in full swing. This weekend (Thursday is part of the weekend, right?) kicks off the NFL season and I predict that this will be the Detroit Lions' year! Come January, I may have to recant this statement but I think they're going to be good, provided Matty Stafford proves more resilient than a piece of wet toilet paper, Ndamukong Suh doesn't get tossed from games for his shenanigans (warranted or not), and their near geriatric kicker doesn't bonk. If all these factors are non-factors, and all the stars align, we could have them in the playoffs. I'm not hoping for Super Bowl, because that just seems arrogant, but if they go, all the better.

College football started last week and the story was more about the uniforms than the games. Granted there were only a couple of games that weren't cupcake teams against top 10 (Thank you LSU for providing a very good game), but it was either the weather or the unis that everyone was talking about. Monsoon conditions in South Bend and Ann Arbor (plus that blasted lightning--as Brent Musburger stated when the fans start booing after the second weather delay, you're sitting on metal seats. If you want to stay there during lightning strikes, please do so at your own risk), crazy hot weather in the Horseshoe and crazy bad uniforms in GA and MD.

Georgia's wouldn't have been too bad but someone at Nike thought it'd be great to change up the helmets (I blame Nike because I can't believe a Bulldog would want to change an iconic helmet design). But the University of Maryland called the UGA design and raised by a whole heckuva lot of fashion chutzpah. They caught a lot of flack for the design (blamed on Kevin Plank, co-founder of Under Armour) which went from the helmet all the way down to the cleats. If you haven't seen this fashion emergency, count yourself lucky. Well, now it's coming out that it wasn't even an original idea. Apparently they stole, or "borrowed" the design from a roller derby team in Baltimore. Nice. They have since shown the previews of the unis to be worn by Notre Dame and Michigan for their upcoming night time showdown at the Big House. Can we please make it stop? I'm tired of having epileptic seizures looking at your failed attempts at fashion awesomeness. Next they're going to be taking the wings of the Michigan helmets and that will require someone to be hanged from their toenails.

Now let's play some football!