The Crystal Ball 2014 Week 7

Hello All welcome to another week of NFL football fun! 

Like all teams in the NFL, we at the Crystal Ball also enjoy having a bye week during the season. Unlike the NFL, ours are not set in stone before the season begins. This allows us to take one when we actually need one. Like the week after watching your team look like a hot, chaotic, listless mess as they get shellacked by their division rival.

Hey, good on Cleveland. They are building quite a good little team over there that just about everyone has overlooked until now. And for the good people of Cleveland, it's about darned time. And I have no problem losing to a superior opponent. I do have a problem looking disorganized, unfocused and ill-prepared in the loss. But that is immaterial.

So after that eye crossing loss, combined with my general malaise at the league itself and the relentless off the field issues that are plaguing the NFL due to poor decision making and the triumph of greed and power over human dignity, safety and compassion, it felt like a good time to step back and take a small break and remember why we like football in the first place.

Plus, we've been so wickedly busy around the Crystal Ball offices that darn it, a break one week is well deserved and needed! With finishing up Summer projects, starting Fall/Winter preparations, the holiday season kicking off, and the ol' day job taking some new turns, it's been nuttier than a fruitcake around here, which will soon start showing up on your grocers' shelves.

So this week we're backing off, doing some chores, taking a nap, continuing our training (more on which will come in the next few months), and maybe watch a game or two in between some leisure reading and laundry. We will return next week recharged, refreshed and raring to go. Until then, enjoy the waning Fall weather and another week of football fun!