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[Martok]

The Cardinals are definitely a surprise.

I do suspect they're going to have a violent collision with reality when they play the Niners for the first time.

If they somehow win, though, we might have to accept Arizona is for real...

As for the Vikings they seem to be playing well(haven't seen any of their games) and if they keep playing well they'll probably be able to do well this season.

Given how utterly atrocious the Vikes were last year, no one thought they were even *capable* of playing well. Everyone was expecting we were going to be "rebuilding" yet again.

However, you're right that if we continue to play like have we have -- especially these last two weeks -- it could be an interesting season!

Just when I was feeling there was some optimism for my team- linky...

I'm not even sure what to think.

Yeah, I just heard about that. That's tough; I hope he beats it.

edit: also, sorry for ruining that perfect season, Martok.

Heh. Well given we've already equalled our victory totals from last season, everything after this will just be gravy!

Besides, as far as I'm concerned, it's best to get that one defeat out of the way early on.

At least the real refs are back. After the GB/SEA fiasco, I wasn't going to watch another game until they returned.

Yeah, that was an utter disgrace. (Although in a way, we should probably thank those replacement officials; had it not been for that epic foul-up, the real refs would almost certainly still be locked out.)

As much as I love watching the Packers lose -- and boy, do I ever! -- they certainly didn't deserve getting robbed like that. Green Bay got rogered, but good.