The NFL regular season is finally here! And tonight we’re graced with a premier matchup. The New Orleans Saints are traveling to Indianapolis to face the defending Superbowl champion Colts. What a game to kick off the NFL season. Now, if only there isn’t an awful NFL kickoff pregame concert with Beyonce or some other cracked out singer like Britney Spears.

I’m ready for some football dammit. I’m ready for bone crushing, helmet to helmet sounds. I’m ready to see sweat dripping off Mannings face in High Def. I’m ready to sit in frnot of a TV with a laptop so I can keep tabs of my fantasy players at all time (I’ve got Colston going tonight). Thank the Lord that all these moments I’ve been waiting for are finally here tonight.

All signs point to tonight’s game being a high scoring affair. Indy’s defense couldn’t stop my high school’s running back, let alone the two headed beast of Duece and Bush. With that said, Indy doesn’t need defense to win games. They have Peyton Manning, the QB that can put together a scoring drive in under 1 minute on a regular basis.

Prediction for the game? As much as I want the Colts to lose…they just won’t do it at home on opening night. Colts win 34-24.

Tuesday night, Alex Rodriguez gimped his ankle when he collided with Seattle third baseman Andrian Beltre. The injury looked bogus to me. I couldn’t see anything on the replay that would have caused A-Rod the injury his ankle. Nonetheless, he limped into Yankee Stadium last night ready to play.

“I knew I felt good enough to play, and I came with the mind-set ready to play,” Alex said.

Espn.com reports that “The two-time MVP walked and popped out in his first two plate appearances against Jarrod Washburn (9-13). Then, with the Yankees trailing 2-1, Rodriguez hit a 3-2 fastball into Monument Park in left-center leading off the seventh. Pinch-hitter Jorge Posada’s bases-loaded walk off Sean Green put the Yankees ahead, and New York padded the margin on Johnny Damon’s run-scoring grounder, Melky Cabrera’s RBI single and Derek Jeter’s two-run double.

Rodriguez then drove a 2-1 pitch from Brandon Morrow into the left-field seats for a two-run homer. He rounded the bases, received congratulations in the dugout and emerged for his second curtain call of the inning.”

Not a bad game for a man with a bad ankle.

Tiki Barber is getting more media attention now then when he was rushing for 1700 yards. In his upcming book appropriately titled “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, Barber suggests that Coughlin is the reason he quit.

Cry Much?

As a Jag fan, I know what Coughlin does to his players. He is the drill sargeant of football. I watched him ream players for 8 years in Jacksonville. Players complained then…hell he even made a guy cry. But never in his tenure in Jacksonville did a player quit because of him. “If Tom Coughlin had not remained as head coach of the Giants, I might still be in a Giants uniform,” Barber writes, according to the Daily News.

Wow Tiki. You’re a real man’s man. I wonder how often your brother beat your ass growing up?

“[Coughlin] robbed me of what had been one of the most important things I had in my life, which was the joy I felt playing football,” Barber wrote, according to the newspaper. “I had lost that. He had taken it away.”

Tiki only makes himself look bad by these comments. He’s trying to place blame on Coughlin, when in fact he’s only exposing himself as a little bitch.

The biggest college football news from this past weekend has to be the enormous upset of the Appalachian State Mountaineers over the Michigan Wolverines 34-32. It marks the first time in history that a DI-AA team beat a ranked team, let alone the #5 ranked team. This could go down as the greatest upset in college football history. There’s a reason why people say “That’s why you play the game.”

So of the 109,000 people in attendence at the start of the game, I’m wondering how many of them were there till the end. I hope Michigan fans remember that it’s ‘just a game.’ Don’t you want to punch someone in the face anytime you hear the phrase ‘It’s just a game’? The suicide watch was out Saturday night. Cops scoured the roof tops in search of disgruntled and angry Michigan fans. Luckily as of right now there are no suicides reported.

It has to suck to know that you’re season is over after the first week. Michigan could win out and be 10-1 at the end of the season, but that one loss is going to keep them out of the top rankings in a different way than if it was a loss to Ohio State. Michigan needs to accept their new role as ’spoiler.’ Their season is over. Their job now is to ruin other teams seasons much like their was ruined.