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		<title>And So it Begins&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea why Keith Bulluck calls himself &#8220;The General&#8221; as best I know he has never been involved in a war on foreign land or even a skirmish but he does bring up a valid point.  The NFL season is here.
For many of us this is a time of great excitement, the [...]]]></description>
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				5hrs till kickoff...jus lay'n here think'n bout all the plays I'm gonna make this season. It's about 2 go down...The General has spoken

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<p>I have no idea why Keith Bulluck calls himself &#8220;The General&#8221; as best I know he has never been involved in a war on foreign land or even a skirmish but he does bring up a valid point.  The NFL season is here.</p>
<p>For many of us this is a time of great excitement, the NFL truly is this country&#8217;s main sport.  This week, more than any week of the year, every fan of sport is filled with hope.  Every team is 0-0 and the NFL is full of parity, this was never proved more than this year&#8217;s past superbowl with the freakin&#8217; Arizona Cardnals made it to the big game.  The NFL turns casual sports fans into fanatical beings obsessed with the fantasy football or office survivor pools.</p>
<p>It is a shame that all this is over shadowed.</p>
<p>For today is the first day of TheFingerWag.com, the latest and the greatest of them all.  So as Keith Bulluck &#8220;lay&#8217;n think&#8217;n bout all the plays&#8221; he is going to make.  I shall do some lay&#8217;n and some think&#8217;n about TheFingerWag.com and what we plan to do and where we plan to go.</p>
<p>As I am sure you tell we are focused a lot on Twitter, this is not by mistake.  Today more than ever athlete&#8217;s have access to the fans and it&#8217;s been observed that they are quite ridiculous most of the time and we as fans feed off this.  We love having them tweet, update a facebook status, ustream their day, whatever.   We have spent our lives trying to get closer to the guys on &#8220;our team.&#8221;  We live and die with each touchdown, each out, or each clutch 3-pointer.  So this is where we come in, to present to you the athlete &#8211; in it&#8217;s purist form the way they intend their message to get out.</p>
<p>For better or for worse.
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