Are You Ready For Some Football?

Yup, last night in the season opener the Denver Broncos pretty much shredded the Baltimore Ravens, and Peyton Manning (love him or loathe him, you can't ignore him now) appeared to have achieved some kind of crazy apotheosis.  So in honor of the new season, here's something fun for all you football fans:  Deadspin's hilarious explanations of Why Your Team Sucks!

I'm openly rejoicing that now there's football to give us all something to talk about besides the increasingly maddening Syria debacle.  Mama needed a break, OK?  But if I had to pick a moment from last season to be a metaphor for the Obama Syria mess now, then without hesitation I give you this immortal play by (who else?) the New York Jets and Mark Sanchez:

Mind-blowingly stupid and astoundingly incompetent in ways we'd never even dreamed of, it might be classified as leading from (the) behind, ha.  FUMBLE.