I've been deluged with people wanting to know my scoring of the NFL draft. I thought that the Niners picked up some really talented players. I would have liked them to have gotten Coby Fleener, but the receiver they got is fast, fast, fast. And drafting LaMichael James, a very fast running back from Oregon, may actually get more Niner games up here in Portland.
But, really, who knows how a draft will turn out until five years down the road?
And then there is the news of Junior Seau's death, a possible suicide, allegedly a self-inflicted shot in the chest. There is a troubling trend of suicides among former NFL players with concussion histories. This would not be the first suicide of an NFL player by a shot to the chest. Past suicides began killing themselves this way so as to preserve their brains for study.
I love football, but the NFL has a big problem here.
Meanwhile, the Giants are meandering around .500 so far this year. The team is younger and more interesting this year. We shall see, although I can't really follow them from up here in the north country.