Minnesota vs New Orleans
Date: Thursday, September 9, 8:30pm ET, NBC
The real story of this game should be about the Saints coming back home to kick off the 2010 season and celebrate their Super Bowl win with the city that's still affected from the ravages of Katrina. And yeah, that might be mentioned once or twice during the broadcast, but the majority of airtime will be spent talking about the ol' gunslinger who plays the game like a kid. I mean, seriously, it's like he's out on the playground. He just loves to play the game. If the game is skillfully manipulating the media and putting on a summer-long charade to feed his super-sized ego while he squeezes his owner for a few more million all while hiding behind an "aww shucks" persona*.
Who Will Win And Why: New Orleans because they are a better team.
Random Fact: *I was talking about Brett Favre.