Praise God on High, sing it from the roof of your house, this MOTHAEFFIN’ LOCKOUT BE OVER!!! It has been a strange and taxing emotional journey folks, but from the ashes rises the Phoenix. I have no idea what that means, but somehow we have braved the full gauntlet of this sordid mess -  like Russell Crowe after the scene in Gladiator with the Tigers and Chariots and all the other crazy Roman death contraptions. Imagine if the gladiators had a Lockout, the fans in Anchient Rome would never tolerate that mess and would kill every last one of them and the all of the owners/fight commissioners/emperors – no one could avoid being caught in the bloodlusting fury of mob rule. But I digress…this strange saga is finally over (YAY!), so what have we learned?

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Welp, the NFL Lockout has come to an end…sort of. The owners have ratified the new CBA deal with a vote of 31-0 – but there are 32 teams, you ask? That’s because the Raiders/Walking Dead season 2 star, Al Davis, did not register a vote. Did all forget to take his arm Viagra? Or has he been dead for years and stuck in some kind of Weekend at Bernie’s type scenario? Who knows. But there is still a major hitch in the progress of football in 2011…

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