Titans

This could be fun…

(Prefix: Apologies for the scattered thoughts this week, I am currently away from the UK in holiday staying with a guy who looks like Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast. Please find below my scattered ramblings on the Titan’s 33-27 slobber knocker against Seattle.)

Hope season has come early this year for Titans fans everywhere. This game was the first I have managed to watch live the whole way through and, I must say, the Titans look so much better than they have since the days of Jim Schwartz’s defense.

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Grinding Out Results

Firstly, I have to admit something: I did not actually watch the Titans’ game live this week. I was at Pie & Ale in Manchester with the GnG gang, watching the New England Patriots remind the world why they are so very much despised by every other team. Instead I tracked the live down and distance box score on NFL.com which I personally feel is a more pure and dramatic way to follow American football anyway – it reminds me of my youth, when Saturday afternoons consisted of watching an old John Wayne movie whilst the vidiprinter would churn out two football scores at a time at the bottom of the screen; it was dramatic because you had no idea of context, just the raw scores.

(During my worst nightmares, that vidiprinter-printing noise still haunts me… – Ed)

The same exists for NFL nowadays. I get the fascination with Red Zone. I understand wanting to know everything moment of action from every game. But it will never replace the drama of refreshing your phone every 40 or so seconds to see whether you made that 3^rd and 8 from the 42 yard line.

With that in mind, let us discuss this game…

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