Ball Dances In Seattle

Super Bowl 2012: Go ahead. Pick against the Philadelphia Eagles.They dare you.

Add it all up and start collecting tea leaves from the various pundits and prognosticators with the NFL woven into their DNA. The consensus is the Philadelphia Eagles are hands down, no doubt, don’t you dare even think for one split second about questioning me young man, favorites to emerge from the NFC pack and own the field in Indianapolis. Winning a Super Bowl and finally give Eagles faithful something to stick in the face of opposing fans instead of “ our Santa is tougher than your Santa ” every year when there’s even a whiff of snow come home game time.

Hang on. Deep breath. Exhale. Back to Earth. Nice, slow bite of the cheesesteak.

Winning the Conference is certainly not a given. Calendar check. August? Point to the faint of heart.

Still…..

Atlanta‘s secondary has a lot to prove and a rebuilding offensive line will make things dicey early on. Chicago has a much better chance now that Kristin Cavallari won’t be in the stands wearing her “I Heart Jay” jersey. New Orleans has to be considered a strong favorite with Newton now on the team, and….excuse me?... .it’s Cecil, not Cam ? OK, move along people. Nothing to see here. Aaron Rogers won’t suddenly become a mere mortal, and the Packers receiving corps could be the most dangerous anywhere. Eli Manning has a ring to his credit, yet is still considered “over-rated” by so-called expert wags that seem to miss almost 22,000 yards passing in 7 seasons. Still, those 25 picks in 2010 do not bode well for the Giants fortunes. Seattle has the equivalent of a roster barely out of football diapers and could be in for a long fall.

The single most worrisome issues for the Eagles have little or nothing to do with competition on the field. It’s competition in the locker room and reigning in a very health dose of ego that has to bring pause.

Reid has already shown a propensity for failing to note player gripes and issues around the training table. While there’s nothing wrong with players getting under the skin of those competing for playing time and, in the case of offensive players, getting their hands on the ball more than others for personal pride and/or contract bonuses, Reid has got to shut this down immediately and keep the audio in-house, away from the probing pens and microphones of the media.

Vince Young could start for a number of teams, but has to re-establish himself on and off the field after injuries and a very public blow up with Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher and team ownership that cost both he and Fisher their jobs. A good case can be made that Young simply had a moment of pique tossing his pads into the crowd after he was kept out of reentering a game the Titans lost. Fisher erred badly in replacing him with Kerry Collins and then Rusty Smith. Young knew it. Owner Bud Adams knew it. The stats proved it. The only person with blinders on was Fisher. There is no doubting Young has plenty of gun and grit left in that arm and body. All he has to do now is prove it.

Meat & Banana Dance at Seattle Mariners Opening Day @ Safeco Field ...

This video is a teaser for the upcoming Compost Days celebration in Seattle from April 15th – May 30th. Here are meat and banana doing the compost dance in front of Safeco Field on opening day. The Seattle Mariners and Cedar Grove have a partnership whereby all the left over hot dog buns, pretzel ends, peanut shells and food scraps left behind after each game and in the compost collecting containers, instead of being land filled as trash are turned into juicy nutritious compost and returned to the flowers and planters at the stadium and in gardens throughout Puget Sound. For more info visit www.CGCompost.

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