NFL Fans: Reality Check Time

As the NFL preseason ends, the excitement that brings football fans back year after year is finally upon us with the regular season set to begin. If your fervor has not been sullied by uninspired preseason games, your enthusiasm for the coming season is at an all-time high when your team finally takes the field this Sunday (for most teams). Unfortunately, just by the nature of competition, half of the teams will win this week and the other half will lose (unless you're Donovan McNabb or Andy Reid and are unaware your team can tie a game and therefore fail to try for the win). It is for this very reason that I feel it is time for us all to take off our respective team colored glasses and face some harsh truths.   Your team is not as good as you think they are.   We are football fans. We believe in our team. We place our hope in their hands every week. We share in the emotion of their successes and failures, so much so that we marry ourselves to our team with words of ow...