A Big Game

Dr X. posts this from the House of Pain:

"It would be all too easy to take Detroit lightly. A terrible team, managed by the same people who brought you the Ford Motor Company. Oughta be a walkover.

"That would be a huge mistake. This is the NFL. Every player on every team has earned his job against someone who was a big star in college. Go into a game with anything less than laser focus and the next thing you know you're explaining to reporters that the Detroit Lions have more talent than people say, and they did a great job against you, and yes, you were a little surprised they executed so well. Every single week a strong team walks off the field, heads hanging, beaten by the dog.

"And if they lose the first game, it could get worse. Then you've got Arizona, probably feeling pretty good after stomping the 49ers in their new stadium. Then the always-tough New York Football Giants (some say they were a better team than the Seahawks last year), then you travel to Chicago to try and get something going against the league's best defense.

"I'm not kidding - get too full of yourself in this league, and you can be 0-4 by Bye week.

"That's why this is a big game. They're all big games. Every game counts. Every win, every snap, every touch, every drive block, every loose ball - is for all the marbles. From the moment the kicker's foot hits the pigskin until the clock runs out with grown men diving over one other to get a hand on a Hail Mary pass...it all counts.

"So it's going to be a big game. How big? It's going to make Kill Bill look like The Big Chill, all right? It'll make Fists of Fury look like Footloose. It'll make Roadhouse look like Pee Wee's Playhouse!

"IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG GAME!!!"