What we know

Four September Sundays does not an NFL season make.

We don’t know anything because it doesn’t matter because the NFL is not won in September; it’s won in December and January.

College football is a different mammal, thanks or no thanks to rankings. A loss in September is devastating. In the pros, a team just needs to get to the playoffs hot and go all the way like the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers, a mere 7-5 before winning eight straight games en route to Trophy.

On the other cleat, a team does not want to grow cold like the 1993 Miami Dolphins. After a 9-2 start, they lost their last five games and missed the playoffs.

After Week 3 of 2008, people were lining up to give the Dallas Cowboys the championship. Now after Week 4, the team has been poked apart and exposed. Nobody’s talking about Tony Romo, they are talking about Jason Campbell. (and TO is talking about himself.)

How many of you picked Miami to go to Foxboro and whip the P-Men soundly? Or knew the Broncos would be roped by the Chiefs? We simply do not know who’s going to be better on the field that day.

Which reminds me: actually we do know some things. We may not know who’s going to win the Super Bowl (the NY Giants were 2-2 in September last year), but here’s what we know after the first quarter of the regular season.

If you rip the heart out of a person, then that person will not function properly. Tom Brady is the heart of the Patriots.

Al Davis lost his marbles five or six years ago.

Lane Kiffin is young enough to go back to college … as a student.

Jeff Fisher is one of the NFL’s best head coaches in getting the most out of his talent year after year.

Brett Favre is not dead.

Kurt Warner is not dead.

The Cincinnati Bungles are dead.

Plaxico Burress, Ocho Cinco (Chad Johnson is dead), Terrell Owens and Randy Moss have to be related somehow.

The NFC East is the toughest division.

The NFC West is the easiest.

The AFC East has the most intrigue.

Throwback uniforms are way cool. Unaware of any such stats, I wonder if they help teams win more than they would normally. Last weekend, the two teams that wore them both won. And I went to one college game where the team in the throwback won. Perhaps it’s the Westinghouse Effect, the psychological phenomenon of improving work performance thru small changes in the environment. A different uniform surely qualifies. Hmmm.

Minnie Mouse could coach the Pittsburgh Steelers and they still would be a tough, physical team.

John Madden should sit on Tony Kornheiser.

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Coldeen is a longtime journalist in the CNMI and is currently the news director of KSPN2