by Mario Mergola | Jan 13, 2022
I always exhale at the end of a regular season, and this year is no different. It’s a marathon, and I can’t help but collapse into my chair when it is over and just breathe. That’s what I’m doing right now. Maybe I’m not slouched, but I...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 6, 2022
We’re here! Although it might be one week later than what we have seen in every season of the past few decades, we are at the end. I know I write about this all the time, but it feels like we just started. The season may be longer in actual timeframe, but it...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 29, 2021
We’ve reached Week 17! This is the final…well, the final nothing! It’s the preview of the final week. The game before the game. All season long, I have written about how this year, by virtue of the additional week — and the seventh Wild Card...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 22, 2021
What a weird week. At the end of the day, that’s the only word that can be used to describe what just happened: weird. Weird in the movement of games due to COVID. Weird in how the scheduling was handled. Weird in the players and teams that stepped up and...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 15, 2021
I’m actually excited. Last week, I specifically mentioned how overextended both the trends and our success rate had become. It was unsustainable and, while I never like to lose, having a week where everything resets was inevitable. As a result, we suffered our...
