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The 2012 NFL season begins today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes, my excitement is worth 18 exclamation points) My co-workers Dean and Chris are un-American and don't care about football so it's up to me, a red-blooded American alpha male to share some reasons why everyone should be excited about the 2012 NFL season.

 1)    Beer and Wings - On Sundays during the football season it’s socially acceptable to eat as many wings and drink as much beer as you want. People don't merely look the other way like they do when you eat wings in church on Sunday; they actually EXPECT this indulgence. Hell, even my mom has absolutely no problem with me polluting my body with fat and alcohol (by which I mean she has no tolerance for me polluting my body with fat and alcohol).

 2)    Fantasy Football – Not only do you get a chance to root for your favorite pro team every week, you also get to act as the head coach of your very own fantasy team: playing against your friends, spewing insults like “You suck!” or “I am better than you!” at them across crowded bars.  Remember, it’s all about the pageantry, folks.

3)    You’ll get to watch funny Daily Grace videos about football, like this one from last season, where she shows how much she knows about the sport: Nothing.  Grace knows nothing about football. Nothing.

4)    Because you never know if something ridiculous like this will happen.  Or a disgusting act, such as this.  Or this. 

5) Most importantly, tonight the defending Super Bowl Champions-- my beloved New York Giants-– face off against their division rivals, the Dallas Cowboys. So even if you’re not interested in the game itself, it might warm you to know that somewhere in New York, hunkered down with beer and wings (remember: this is socially accepted behavior during football season) I’m screaming my lungs out, cheering for my team like a crazy person.  You gotta respect the passion, no!?

Or not...

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What're the kids listening to nowadays, that's what I want to know.  I feel so old and jaded by this point.  I remember when Bach was penning his first minuets; I remember when John, Paul, George and Ringo were touching down in NYC for the first time.  I remember what it was like when the Goo Goo Dolls sang "And I don't want the world to see me/'Cause I don't think that they'd understand."  I remember when Rick Moranis was still in the public eye --

Wait.  What's that?  Rick Moranis is releasing….A NEW ALBUM?  He is?  Sweet!  Oh boy, this is good news.  Ever since he retired from the movie business or whatever since shrinking and blowing up his kids, the masterful comic actor Rick Moranis has all but disappeared, aside from releasing his debut LP The Agoraphobic Cowboy, a country tinged quasi-comedy LP, in 2005.  That album's much better than you might think it is, too.  It's actually quite good:  Moranis is a good musician and smart songwriter, as well as a fantastic actor.

So, the new album is called My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs and you can pre-order it at RickMoranis.com on May 21st.  I'm excited.  Will it be the album of the year?  Probably not.  But Rick Moranis is a treasure, and any gift he wants to give us mortals, whether it be a CD or a haircut, I'm stoked about it.

I leave you with:

This.

And this.

And finally, this.

God bless you, Mr. Moranis.

P.S. - After publishing this blog post, I read that the Chicago based label Drag City is releasing an Andy Kaufman comedy album.  His first!  Wow.  Good stuff in the comedy record business today!