For all football fans today is the day we have waited for, for many months.  As Summer leaves the only solice we can now find is football.  Thank God for football!!

As Train says, "Now our lives have meaning again".

It should be a great year...Everyone has high expectations, but not everyone's expectation's will be met.  Look for this blog to not only bring you EAFL business, but NFL business as it pertains to the EAFL and it's loyal NFL fans.

Tonight is the Saints at the Colts.  You can not start the season off with a better match-up.  From what I"ve read there are 13 new starters on the Colts.  Was last year a fluke for the Colts or is Peyton the "new" Tom Brady.

The Saints rode a magical year into the NFC Championship game last yet, was that season a fluke?  Is the 1 utility player in the NFL ready to not only gain yards, but score some points?  Can Colston have a great year now that the league knows what he can do?

The  Colts are home after a SB win, the Saints eager to show they belong, I expect a great game with the Colts winning a thriller 31-28.

Now, on the EAFL.  Looks like I can begin my season now, only 3 weeks too late. I played ranked and unranked with no connection issues, so here's hoping.  I hate losing, so this will be a very hard season for me as my expectations were to be competitive.  A certain legend has offered to lab daily with me to get me ready, so we'll see how that plays out.

Our potential 3rd 360 league is not going to happen.  Lots of deadweight in EAFL-E 360 needed to be cut, thankfully we had the bodies ready to go.  PS2 interest is "slowly" dying out.  My guess is EAFL-E PS2 might now make it to Christmas.

We have more then enough to begin EAFL-PS3, but no commish.  Train, currently EAFL-PS2 commish offered, but doesn't have the game yet.  Memphis would be a great pick, but his schedule doesn't allow.  Shizzzz wants to commish, but he's also a close friend, I know his schedule and lack of visibility wouldn't work.  There is a former commish who owns a PS3.  But, each time I've made him a commish, I've regretted it.  He does good for a week or two, then gets lazy.

So, I'm commish-less for the PS3 league...hopefully I can identify one by Monday or go "commish by committee".

I also started an office pool for picks each week.  Stupid me paid for a 20 slot pool instead of using Yahoo Pickem, which I used before, that allows up to 50 for free.  It was only $10, but still, that was just dumb.  I sometimes get excited about new initiatives for the EAFL and move too quickly, this was one of those times.

We've had a lot of turmoil on the EAFL forums lately.  The EAFL now bans people from the message boards for short periods of time, who continously show questionable behavior.  This is only done after they have been warned to stop.  Some people just have a problem with authority or taking instruction.  One owner kept saying, "I dont see the big deal" when instructed to post in a certain forum.  Even after we spoke extensively via PM, he then went ahead and posted anyway.  Can't get much more blatant then that..so he got his with a 2 day ban from the boards.

PARTICIPATION IN THE EAFL IS PRIVILEDGE NOT A RIGHT.

I love the smack talk as the league is really seeing what I've been saying about "homers", like Bwood, Edmor and even Don.

Loyalty is fine, but when it's blind, you're a homer.  Tiki, Bamma, Train and myself are examples of loyal diehard fans.  But the previously mentioned guys let their loyalty cloud good sound judgement.  As the weeks move on, It will be my pleasure to continue to point this out.