Top 10 Ways That American Football Games Are Different In England

To get the joke in item #3 above, you've got to be a hardcore Monty Python fan. If you're interested in exploring this further, click here for a short YouTube video of the "albatross" sketch.

What's your take on this new "Wildcat" stuff everyone's trying these days? (R.W., Miami FL)

Since I'm in the YouTube mood today, click here for a short clip from the movie.

Yo Commish, there's been a lot of talk about "bounties" in the NFL lately, where do you stand on the subject? Should they be allowed or forbidden? (T.S., Baltimore MD)

But do you know what really intrigues me? That Brawny brand paper towel with the "manly man" in the logo. At first glance he looks real manly in a lumberjack sort of way. "He's a lumberjack but he's OK!"; oops sorry, another Monty Python skit, you can do the research on your own with that one. So you're looking at the logo again and you realize that there's just something a little ambiguous about this guy that you can't just put your finger on. Are they going for the 70's Burt Reynolds kind of look or is it something a little more subliminal? Next thing you know you're wondering if he voted for Prop 8 out in California or against it? And that folks, is when you know it's time to get out of the paper products aisle in the supermarket and on to the next question in the mailbag…

So I'm looking at my calendar the other day and I realize that it's now November. And despite all the dire predictions early in the season, we're all still here, including Brian Boghosian. So did you ever get the 4-1-1 on what was up there with the "Clear November" team name? (Anonymous, somewhere in MA)

"…the NFL put out a CD called the Power and the Glory: The Original Music and Voices of NFL Films. Very cool CD, lots of good old NFL Films songs. "November" is Track # 29 of 36. It's got that John Facenda guy's voice with really cool music in the background and I can just picture some of the pictures from the old NFL Films shows I watched. {in your best deep booming Facenda voice}: "As hopes were high in the heat of September, they wilt and die from the chills of NOVEMBER…"

So there you have it. It's just music, we're all safe. No one's going anywhere this month. It's too bad that the NFL Films guy "Cleared Existing" a few years ago, because he'd be fun to still have around. After all, who can resist the John Facenda voice? "Across the frozen tundra they ran". Is this an NFL Films Green Bay Packer highlight reel? A documentary of a recent Iditarod sled dog race? The intro to that animated movie "Balto" or just a recap of some poor schlep trying to get to third base with his frigid girlfriend on a Saturday night at the local cinema? See what I mean? I think we all need a guy like John Facenda standing over us every minute of the day narrating every movement of our lives don't you? How much more interesting would that make our otherwise mundane existence? Cue the bassoons, cellos and tubas and hear this in the deepest baritone you can imagine: "The Commish sits down at his keyboard, a solitary man with a single quest. To write the great American News & Notes column. {kettle drums} His fingers cross the keys {violins} like so many buffaloes crossing the Great Plains in the days of yore… {Wait! is there a sousaphone in the house? What instrument sounds the most like a bison?}

Do you have any inside scoop on Brady's infection? (E.M., Florham Park NJ)

Moving away from football for a second, can I ask a baseball question? What did they do about the beer sales for the 5th game of the World Series this year? (J.M., Glen Mills PA)

Hey Commish, whatever happened to that little bet you had proposed to Kevin regarding beating him in his other league with a bunch of free agents? (B.L., Richmond VA)

Harlem Globetrotters versus Washington Generals

Actually looking at that last one, I do believe this might be the only week the Lions have a shot at actually winning a game! Does anyone know if Culpepper is starting? I hear the Christians just signed Russell Crowe fresh off the set of "Gladiator"…

For those of us keeping score at home, can we get the game-by-game results from the last few weeks that you've been away? Especially that one game in which I scored the 10th highest single game total in league history and Fab and I combined for the 3rd highest combined game score. And that other one where Flinn scored the 4th lowest single game score and Kevin and he combined for the 5th lowest combined game in league history. And the one where Bo Knows No Longer Being Undefeated. Oh, and did I mention I've also had high points 2 out of those last 3 weeks? (K.B., Waldwick, NJ)

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