Thank Goodness It's Only A Game

Two games do not a season make, but the Philadelphia Eagles already are running true to form. That's off-season soap operas followed by a regular season with elation one Sunday and heartbreak the next and concluding with an end-of-season collapse as predictable as the sun rising in the east.

Me, I'm now officially a Baltimore Ravens fan in no small part because of that Joe Flacco, whom I followed for two years at the University of Delaware and is showing every sign of not succumbing to a sophomore slump in the NFL.

Photograph by Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun