by Mario Mergola | Dec 16, 2020
Recently, I wrote about one of the craziest weeks in recent memory. And then Week 14 arrived. From start-to-finish, we couldn’t help but be entertained. What’s most amazing is that it really was from start-to-finish. Sunday afternoon opened with an insane...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 9, 2020
We’ve reached the home stretch. Even with movement in the schedule that left us with four Primetime games in Week 13 — the more football, the better! — we’re finally and officially caught up with the original plan. Every team has played exactly...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 3, 2020
If Week 12 of the 2020 season wasn’t one of the craziest in recent memory, then I must be forgetting legitimate insanity. In addition to having a Thanksgiving game moved to Tuesday night — which is no longer a completely impossible-to-expect outcome...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 25, 2020
I sat at the table. Alone. The lights were off. There was only the glow of the laptop screen. I didn’t want to move. I’ve had nights like this before. The lyric from the song “Some Nights” by fun. comes to mind, where it begins, “Some...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 18, 2020
Isn’t it amazing? This entire season has been an uphill battle in which we get small bursts of consistency, only to be shuffled around with bouts of randomness. Indeed, that’s part of the game normally, but it’s the lack of trends that’s most...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 10, 2020
And there it is. As soon as it looked like we were getting some momentum, it hit a speedbump. Not an all-out collapse, but break in the upward move. The real shame — and the part that actually annoys me — is that it happened on a week in which we trusted...
