Goodbye to NFL Football 2007

It has been fun.  Thank you to:

Tom d.   Waiting ladies? click here.                            Lawrence H.

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                                                       and Mike Firesmith,

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Tom, Firesmith, and LH: Thank you for putting up with all of my shennanigans, thank you for providing such informative analyses, answering everyone's questions, suffering through your insufferably poor picks (just kidding fellas) -- and all the rest that came with the 2007 Football Season.  I sorta think we may have had a little fun, uh didn't we?  I am going to do my "YouTube" thingy to express just how I feel about NFL Football 2007.

It was a party, like the parties I love, and so I am always going to be ready for your party,

and I shall always remember your names. 1.Click it. 

Football.  I love it, and whenever the three of you did your magic, here is what inevitably happened to me.  2.Nalita.  (Truth be told, it was not Tom, Firesmith, or LH; it was the football players who really "did the magic"!).

Firesmith's approach to football is seemingly dispassionate passion, more black and white than Mike and Lawrence.  I do not think I ever figured out who his favorite team really is, and he says he has no favorite team, but just loves the sport. How unique he is -- a stand-alone, stand-out kind of guy!  But then, he turned around and did something that -- well -- surprised me.  He actually came out from being the serious one, to having a wonderful sense of humour.  Well, Firesmith, this one is for you: 3.Firesmith.  The Scarecrow.

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Lawrence, aaaah Lawrence.  I call him the eternal optimist, and the dreamer of the impossible dreams.  Against all odds -- at times -- he would go with the underdog, and he would be correct oftentimes.  Lawrence is a lesson is what dreams can do -- come true.  His reasoning -- like the other two -- is logic.  Lawrence is a professional broadcaster, and cites the St. Louis Rams as his favorite team.  The St. Louis Rams!??? Now, that's a FAN!  I call Lawrence, "LH", and so LH, this one is for you and expresses your love for the game of football: Lawrence. The Lion.

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Tom. d -- the Tin Man who definitely has a heart, because he has confiscated every woman's heart on Gather and  therefore has plenty of hearts to spare. . .or not?  Tom d. is waiting for a girl like YOU, (click here). Tom d. is the "King of Hearts" with the biggest one that I know of, for his Oakland Traitors. . .oops, I meant to say, beloved Oakland Raiders.  Tom writes well, picks well, had a great sense of humour -- matter of fact, one of the best that I know.  I love him for it.  It is because of that sense of humour that I feel comfortable doing this to him.  Tom d., here is my very special tribute to YOU!: 4.Tom d.!  The Tin Man     (Tom d., That is partially a joke. Here is the real one: 4a. Tom d.)

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Football is a wonderful escape into a wonderful world.  In this world of football, the conflict is organized, and penalties really do apply when the rules are broken.  This makes football unlike the real world.  Perhaps it is why I look so to this escape at the end of every Summer, and dread its coming to an end at the beginning of the New Year.  For all of its scandals, foibles and duds, football IS the Wonderful World.

I dedicated this season to Coach Bill Walsh, who died earlier this year of cancer.  I still have one more football article to do -- for him, about him, but that shall not be until next year.  Tom d., Mike Firesmith, and Lawrence H. continue on in their wonderful world of sports -- maybe with basketball or basketball, I do not know; I sign off after football; it is my wonderful world: 5. Wonderful.

Sentimental, mood music is not really how we end football!  Football does not end with a whisper; it ends with a SHOUT.  HEY FANS!

SHOUT!

THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE GROUP!

THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE FUN!

DID IT REALLY MATTER WHO YOUR TEAM WAS? NO!!!

Well okay, okay -- put your guns down;

I was just kidding! So then, it does matter.

Okay, well then this one is for you and for your team, because football always begins and ends with the fans, and after all,