What a way to start this blog up again in anticipation of the 2008 NFL regular season kickoff! As always, I checked in at our friends over at Football Jabber. This time, they have on their home page a video of the final minute or less of January’s Super Bowl upset, when Eli Manning and his New York Giants drove downfield to stun the until-then perfect New England Patriots.
Still shaking my head in disbelief, I resign myself once again to the very exciting fact that no one ever knows how any NFL game is going to turn out, and also to the fact that football and hubris never mix very well for the team that has that label hung around their necks.
The Pats were too confident and cocksure going into the final game of what could have been the most magical season any NFL team has ever had, and the rest of the NFL had best hope they did not learn their lesson. We’ll see.
Now, with the NFL draft done and offseason camps in full swing, we here at FanYard will be gearing up to give our users as many tools as possible to make us the very best site in the world to make and keep track of picks all season long.
Soon, we’ll be showing you the results of how the Yardstick compared with the picks of the experts at ESPN, Yahoo and CBSSportsline. Only one of these experts beat the aggregate picks of our users and that was Mark Schlereth, who was a guard on three Super Bowl winning teams and made the Pro Bowl twice during a great 12-year career with the redskins and the Broncos.
We hope this offseason is turning into a pleasant and profitable one for all.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Looking forward to a full season of the Fan Yard this year!