So, next week, the Pats and the Giants are playing in, perhaps, the biggest game of the year… but, most of the country will not be able to watch it?!?!!!  Are you kidding me? 

In today’s NY Post, Peter Lauria reports
that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sent a letter yesterday to Time
Warner Cable chief Glenn Britt, proposing a baseball-style,
third-party, binding arbitration process to settle their differences.
(To recap: The NFL Network wants to be placed on a basic-cable tier,
offering a huge audience. But cable companies think it should go on a
digital tier, where a self-selecting audience would cover the
subscription fees.) TWC’s boss shot back, saying he’d happily air the
network on a digital tier for free, or offer the NFL a pay-per-view
channel to charge its own fans. Ouch.

So, maybe, they will be able to work out their problems, eventually… but, until they do, the average American football fan gets screwed, while corporate America bickers. 

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I usually laugh when people say things like this… but, after this week, we just have to ask… are the Pats the best team in history?  After the 52-7 win over the ‘Skins and the dismantling of the Dolphins, it just seems to me that these guys are that much better than everyone else…. and, yes, I know what you are saying… it is the Dolphins and the Redskins… but, seriously, you have to wonder.

However, they will have their one true test of the season next week against the Colts.  If they get past these guys, well, they are are going all the way… all the way to the AFC Championship - where the Pats will, yet again, meet the Colts.  Who knows what will happen at that point in the season.  Last year, I would have given the Pats the nod in that game - given the Colts’ tendency to blow such games in the past… but, as the reigning champion … who knows how that game will go down?  I just can’t wait to see how this drama will play out, this season.

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