QB Lemmy brings football back

My inability to care about watching Jim Sorgi lead the Indianapolis Colts versus the second- and third-stringers for the Washington Redskins in the Hall of Fame Game tonight was briefly suspended when remembered half a handful of K-State alums (Rock Cartwright, Kevin Huntley and Rob Jackson) are on the 'Skins' active roster.

Other NFL ponderings I have pondered now that professional football not played in an arena is back on television:

• Shut up, Brett Favre. Yes, you probably could play for the next 10 years to varying degrees of success... but you retired. It's Aaron Rodgers' turn at the helm in Green Bay. Considering Favre has now been reinstated and will eventually show up for camp to take his physical, I hope he gets shipped to Tampa Bay, New York, Minnesota or wherever he's bound as soon as possible. End our long, national nightmare.

• Through this whole Brett Favre fiasco, did anyone notice X-Games 14? I barely did, but only to measure this year's worst wipeout (Danny Way flipping over on the way down in the Big Air) versus one of the best I've ever seen (Jake Brown falling 40-plus feet after hitting a 720 in the same event at X-Games 13).

• I vow to not stop watching any KC Chiefs game after I've started watching it.

• I do not vow to watch any KC Chiefs games this season.

• I cannot wait to see a brand-new slate of completely brilliant and never-overplayed Peyton Manning commercials. Will they give him a full beard this season? Will any of them come near the mastery that is this commercial for AT&T? The answer is out there.

• Can Motorhead possibly sound better than when it's sung by a Japanese cover band? The answer is, "No. It cannot." Sorry Lemmy — time to call an audible.