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The Weekly NFL Wrap Up

Riddle Me This: If a century contains 100 years, and a football season has 17 weeks, how many “Games of the Century” can one season have? Answer: three this season (so far, at least). The third installment, last night’s match up between the Packers and the Cowboys was viewable in three places: Green Bay, Dallas and your local shitty sports bar. If you didn’t watch the battle for NFC dominance (which you can equate with a trophy for being the third best team in the league), Brett Favre’s right arm got jacked up and Tony Romo’s latest conquest in question, Jessica Simpson didn’t show up. We don’t know why we can’t get NFL Network on our local cable. But maybe if her navel explained it to us we’d finally listen.

Bo Knows Bear Killin’: Ever wonder what Bo Jackson’s been up to since his days of splitting time between breaking bats on his head and crushing linebackers as a two-sport pro? He’s been killing bears at point blank range with handguns, what else?

RIP Sean Taylor: The NFL lost one its most unique players this week. Sean Taylor was a football artist, a player to whom the tag “I’d pay to see him” truly fit. The NFL, in its infinite wisdom, has blocked a lot of the YouTube clips that Redskins fans grew to love, but check this highlight reel from his days of cracking skulls at the U.