Tulsa-Smith:- emotional...: American Football training season starts

Friday, August 03, 2007

American Football training season starts

American football is so aggressive that steel helmets and shoulder paddings are standard equipment - obviously not in the same league of violent sports as soccer, rugby, or even ice hockey with its mean brawls.

Nevertheless, the game is a national pastime that almost everyone wished they could play - even the 'players' acknowledge the uniqueness of the game, if only for the sake of the Cheerleaders.

Anyway, opinions differ always about which teams will go far during the season and which ones would fizzle out before the Super Bowl.

Courtesy of Yahoo Sports, the following two expert rankings - done by their NFL writers Jason Cole and Charles Robinson - emphasize the difficulty in such pre-season predictions:

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TOP 12

Cole rankings
1.	San Diego Chargers
2.	New England Patriots
3.	Indianapolis Colts
4.	Baltimore Ravens
5.	Chicago Bears
6.	New Orleans Saints
7.	Philadelphia Eagles
8.	Cincinnati Bengals
9.	Denver Broncos
10.	Jacksonville Jaguars
11.	New York Jets
12.	Seattle Seahawks

Robinson rankings
1.	San Diego Chargers
2.	New England Patriots
3.	New Orleans Saints
4.	Indianapolis Colts
5.	Chicago Bears
6.	Baltimore Ravens
7.	Cincinnati Bengals
8.	Dallas Cowboys
9.	Denver Broncos
10.	New York Jets
11.	Jacksonville Jaguars
12.	Philadelphia Eagles

Cole: I can't wait until all the Patriots fans tell me how stupid I am for putting the Chargers in the top spot. Why not Colts fans, you say? Indy fans are way too milquetoast to get in anybody's face. More telling is the fact that AFC teams occupy eight of the top 11 spots. That's a pretty strong eight and just about any one of them could beat the best the NFC has to offer.

Robinson: New England's got the talent to be in the top spot, but there's no guarantee Randy Moss, Donte' Stallworth and Kelley Washington won't undermine the chemistry on offense. Starting Indianapolis in the No. 4 spot may not seem sensible, but the Colts have pressing defensive questions after losing their starting cornerbacks and a playmaking linebacker in Cato June......]

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