The crowd roared.  Well, perhaps it cheered somewhat.

The Arizona Cardinals just scored the first touchdown of the pre-season.  It is back, football season.  I am glad.  I have already cheated.  I have watched some of the CFL games that started earlier last month.  CFL as in Canadian Football League.  Yes, I am that guy.  If it is a Division III game, I will check it out.

This weekend the newly elected members of Pro Football Hall of Fame get honored.  One of them is a kicker.  I have always had a soft spot for kickers.  Morten Andersen will be only the second kick enshrined in Canton.  Ironically, the other one, Jan Stenerud, like Morten is Scandinavian.  As sad as the thought is, I hope Scandinavian kickers can still get into our country.

The game of football has changed so much in so many ways.  In the 70s if you had a quarterback consistently throwing for 3000 yards you had something.  Drew Brees usually throws for 5000 or better these days.  We still had straight-on kickers….conventional kicking was called…now they are all soccer style kickers.  Some folks probably still call them side-winders.

In the 70s we had two games to watch on Saturday at the most.  ABC had a single man, Dave Diles in the studio giving us the scores on the Fireman’s Fund Flashback.  The games one can acquire on a Saturday these days runs into the teens on typical college football Saturdays,  The question is not what to watch….it is what not to watch?

I don’t tire of watching it.  My pulse just increased a moment ago when the Cowboys connected on a nice pass from Kellen Moore and the guy that caught it.

My friend Brad McCammmon is Cowboys fan.  He is also a Lou Holtz-like poor mouth.  If he thought the Cowboys were going to the Super Bowl he would still tell you he thinks they will be lucky to win four games.

This stuff never gets old for me.

Speaking the rights.

Danny Johnson