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I love the Chiefs...and have for almost 20 years. Ever since the 1991 season when my dad and I would don our red shirts every Sunday and watch Steve DeBerg and Christian Okoye lead the "Martyball" offense, and Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith hammer out a crushing defense, I've rarely missed a game. So, you can see why - being as I wasn't around to watch the wretched Chiefs of the 70s and 80s - it hurts to watch a team I'm so used to seeing in playoff contention (or at the very least winning 7 or 8 games) play the way they have the last few years.

    Serious, swimming and volleyball? I can barely sit through an NBA game, why would I want to watch an all-star American team crush the national hopes of Lithuania, Japan and the Ivory Coast? It just seems like there isn't any competition there. How about the weightlifting competition? Yawn... Gymnastics? Nope... Uh, track and field? There is a reason they only air this crap once every four years, it's boring. I'm just glad the Olympics take place in the summer when there is better stuff to do. The Winter Olympics aren't so bad, it's like a legitimate version of the X-Games... but with figure skating. Oh well, at least the games only last a couple weeks.

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FROM NFL.COM

Brett Favre will be trading one shade of green for another as a member of the Jets.

The New York Jets have acquired quarterback Brett Favre from the Green Bay Packers, the team announced in a statement early on Thursday morning.

All in all I was very pleased with my mass MMA weekend, and the two top pound for pound fighters in the world both made a case for being number one. But the real question is, will Affliction live to see another day? Everyone knows they dropped a pretty penny making this card happen. So who won the battle in what could be a war later on down the road for lead promoter in the fast rising sport of MMA? Well that might be an overstatement seeing as Affliction has one decent show under their belt and the UFC puts on 12 or more solid shows a year...

    You can take this with as much of a grain of salt as my previous entry about the Royal's Magic Jumbotron of Destiny. It seems that Brett Favre isn't retiring after all. Not only that, but he's not going to be the starting quarterback for the Packers... so what does this limbo mean for Favre? He could become a member of the Packers' coaching staff, a back-up quarterback or he'll be traded to another team. It's unlikely that Favre would take a bench warmer spot and the Packers have said that he's not going to become a member of the coaching staff so that leaves only one thing... he'll be starting for the Chiefs this fall. The Chiefs are in need of a competent quarterback and Favre would be following in the Chiefs' "proud" tradition of picking up quarterbacks that are past their prime. You needn't look any further than Joe Montana and Trent Green to see what I mean.

Making it official: My picks for the 12 Greatest NFL Teams of All Time. What are my credentials? None...other than a 20-year Chiefs fan turned NFL geek who likes to make lists of things. These are all on a year-to-year basis. I tried my best to avoid adding teams based soley on their "Dynasty" status, but regardless managed to include one team from each of them. That was in no way planned. I also tried to avoid repeating teams, and simply pick the best overall squad from one team (again, avoiding the whole "Dynasty" label). While that may deter from the notion that it is the "purest of the pure" top-ten lists, it was better than reading about how great the Steelers, Cowboys and 49ers are, over-and-over again. Most importantly, it's my best and most fair opinion and that will always differ from person-to-person. I really did cringe a little having to take a few off of here, and it's actually one of the reasons it's a Top 12 list instead of a Top 10...but not a Top 20 because I didn't feel like writing that much.

We are down to the semi finals and only two of my original top five are still standing. The quarterfinals were a bit rocky for me, and I’m sure a lot of other people. Even so, I really enjoyed them. Most of the games were nail biters and some were just plain crazy at the end. The Turkey/Croatia game was just unreal. With all the games played the Semi Finals look like this.

Germany vs. Turkey
Spain vs. Russia

These are fairly interesting matchups. There are clearly two underdogs in Turkey and Russia, but I’d hardly count either of them out. Lets give a little look at how each team got here and my prediction / assessment of the match ups.

They've been trying to piece UFC Fight Night 14 together over the last few weeks. Thus far I haven't seen many matches on there that actually intrigue me enough to watch it over Affliction: Banned. However, I'm what the industry considers a "hardcore" fan as opposed to a "casual" fan. I'm pretty sure they are trying to keep casual MMA fans from tuning into the PPV broadcast for Affliction. It seems to me that they could have found a better headliner for this than Anderson Silva. Not that I don't love Silva, but he hasn't seemed to be as big of a draw as some of the other champions.