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player ready...Questions to ponder while waiting for the Packers to repeat:
Is pro football losing its grip?
Certainly not in Green Bay, nor in many of the other small markets of America where it seems to thrive much like stock-car racing. It’s big in Jacksonville, Fla., Charlotte, N.C., and maybe Nashville, they hope. But Los Angeles has lost interest. Houston has lost its team. New York is searching for both its teams and must go to New Jersey to look. Chicago? By October, it’s a Bulls town.
Face it, the NFL hasn’t been the same since Cleveland left. The TV audience was down last year. Attendance was down. Now, teams may quit announcing no-show numbers because it was becoming an embarrassment.
It was Mike Ditka who once said: “The thing we have to remember is the consumer is paying for all this. Someday, someone is going to say, `You know, that’s a beautiful lake out there. I could go buy a boat and go out on that lake all afternoon on Sunday and I could have enough money to pay for it with the money I save on football tickets.’ Nobody said that football is the end-all of the world, that it has to be here forever.”
Mike Ditka is back, so that will help. But he won’t be forever either.
Is Brett Favre forever?
Unfortunately for Bear fans, yes. He’s only 27. Go out on that boat for 10 years. When you come back, maybe someone else will have a chance. Until then, the best hope for anyone outside of Green Bay is for Favre to get bored.
Isn’t Cleveland coming back?
The Browns return in 1999. But who will be the Browns? An existing team or an expansion team? Commissioner Paul Tagliabue wants an expansion team. Owners want an existing team, or at least they want their cities to hear the threat of moving. What will land in Cleveland is a question no one can answer at the moment.
What is with the Dallas Cowboys?
Jerry Jones his own self would love to know that one. The guy seems like he’s trying to find out. Put video cameras in the dorms. Players tore them out. Didn’t even wave and say “Hi, Jerry.”
If the Packers lose, who could beat them?
The Dallas Cowboys.
Will Keyshawn Johnson surpass Ricky Watters as the most-annoying- player-in-the-league-who-isn’t-as-good-as-he-thinks-he-is?
There are many other candidates, but Johnson leads the list.
What teams have new stadiums or renovated stadiums in the 1990s or planned for the early 2000s?
Atlanta, Jacksonville, St. Louis, Carolina, New Orleans, Oakland, San Diego, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Tampa Bay, Buffalo, Cleveland, Nashville, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit.
Will Chicago ever get a new football stadium?
Does anyone know the answer to that question? Does anybody except Michael McCaskey care? Is there really anything wrong with Soldier Field that a few hundred million dollars couldn’t correct?
Will the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars hit a wall before they hit the ceiling?
Isn’t it a bit much to believe second-year teams could get one game from the Super Bowl? Aren’t they both going to slide a little, especially since their quarterbacks start the season hurt? Is there a more compelling question this season?
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Of all the quarterbacks in new places, isn’t Rick Mirer the only one not starting?
No. Billy Joe Hobert isn’t starting in Buffalo. Jim Everett isn’t starting in San Diego. Jeff Hostetler isn’t starting in Washington. Boomer Esiason isn’t starting in Cincinnati. Steve Walsh isn’t starting in Tampa Bay. Randall Cunningham isn’t starting in Minnesota. Frank Reich isn’t starting in Detroit. Steve Bono isn’t starting in Green Bay. Warren Moon isn’t starting in Seattle. Dave Krieg isn’t starting in Tennessee.
Yes, but were any of those guys brought in to start? Er, not exactly. Did any of them cost anywhere near what Mirer cost? Well, no.
Would the Bears have acquired Mirer had Mark Hatley been hired as personnel boss first?
Couldn’t the Bears have drafted Brett Favre in 1991? Yes, but they took Stan Thomas instead. But hey, the Packers took Vinnie Clark instead. The Raiders took Todd Marinovich. The Seahawks took Dan McGwire. The Falcons drafted Favre and then traded him. So there’s a lot of dumb teams out there.
Will the Bears’ season get so long they might have a shot at Peyton Manning?