Mission Statement/Preseason Preview

The Mission Statement

The Monday Hangover is a blog about the happenings of the NFL season written from September to December. Covering the AFC will be Gary Ashley, the original writer for the Hangover as well as a comedian for Behind the Mayhem and TM2 Productions. The NFC will be covered by Greg Reedy, a newspaper reporter for the town of Ridgway.

The Hangover will cover games that occured on Sunday. Before Sunday Gary and Greg will pick 3 games to cover in each conference to cover with their predictions. The article for the week will make this blog usually around Monday afternoon or so.

The NFL Preseason is a lot like an episode of Who's Line is it Anyway?: everything's made up and the points don't matter. However, as the Hangover's NFC correspondent Greg Reedy adds, injuries do.

Rather than answer some questions on the upcoming 2006 NFL season, such as if the Steelers will retain, SI's diety Tom Brady triumphing, or Madden eaten bbq wings during his hall-of-fame speech today, we here at the Monday Hangover feel that certain NFL teams covered last here at the Hangover need a question to ask themselves about this season. So here we go:

AFC

Pittsburgh Steelers - Can the defending Super Bowl Champs prevent another Defcon with Ben avoiding injury, or will the media latch onto Santonio Holmes beating his girlfriend instead of defenders?

Cincinnatti Bengals - Will they capture the newly constructed AFC Powder Puff division, and is Chad Johnson simply a noisy fish in a small pond?

New England Patriots - Vanderjagt will cost the Patriots Super Bowl XLI: Fact or Fiction?

Indianapolis Colts - Is Peyton Manning going to be in anymore cool Mastercard commercials, or will the series hump the shark by hiring his brother?

Cleveland Browns - At what point in the season will their hopes be crushed like a nerd at prom?

New York Jets - Is the hospital ready for the Quarterback club?

Houston Texans - Is this the year of the 5 win season?

NFC

Dallas Cowboys - Have they fully regained their most-hated team status thanks to TO? and will TO get PO'ed at Parcell's BO and get KO'ed?

Detroit Lions - Since Detroit doesn't host a major sporting event until March (Wrestlemania 23), will the fans go shopping on Sundays?

Minnesota Vikings - Wanna buy a boat?

New Orleans Saints - They survived a hurricane last year, can they survive another NFL season with a crappy QB this season?

Arizona Cardinals - Does the heat in Arizona cause dellusions of grandeur for the Cards?

Seattle Seahawks - Are there Seattle Seahawks fans that exist outside of Seattle?

San Francisco 49ers - Can they return to their prime as in Madden 96, or will they score 3 points a game like last year? And who's their friggin QB this year?

With those questions to ask, we can say yes to all of them.