I know I'm a week late, but the NFL is finally under way and it looks like a pretty wide open year. I'm a NY Giants fan and they play the hated Cowboys on the road in the opening game of their new stadium on NBC's Sunday Night Football. The one where punters can hit the mega score board that Jerry Jones just had built.

Tom Brady was rusty, but in the end looked like Brady with the help of a fumble. JaMarcus Russell is very young and not ready to start in the NFL, but still hasn't been half as bad as Jake Delhomme. Adrian Peterson is awesome and even though I can't stand the media coverage surrounding Brett Favre, (He gets the Anna Nicole Smith treatment) I laugh at the way the media suddenly turned on their golden boy.

Injuries are hitting teams early and that's always a drag.

Anyway, who do you like and who are you rooting for?

Some big games for week 2:

New England at NY Jets

New Orleans at Philadelphia

Pittsburgh at Chicago

Baltimore at San Diego

NY Giants at Dallas

Indianapolis at Miami

From http://www.dustytrice.com/:

I got to witness something really special the other day. About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen. Al Franken’s booth at the Minnesota State Fair and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he’d turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care. The discussion went from insurance reform, to the public option, to veterans benefits, to cap and trade. He made a few laugh and even told a touching story that moved a few to tears. A whole lot of common ground was found.

This was really wonderful to watch. I hope they get a chance to post more of their footage of Al at the State Fair.

This comes out just two days after my birthday. Guess how I'm going to celebrate?

Michael Moore wants his money back. Actually, he wants your money back, if you lost any in the financial meltdown.

And though he knows that probably won't happen, the filmmaker at least wants to stick it to the people who took it.

The still untitled film, which opens Oct. 2, will zero in on the corporations and politicians he says caused the global financial crash.

Wall Street robber barons are Moore's new on-screen enemy.

"The movie is not going to be an economics lesson; it's going to be more like a vampire movie," the filmmaker jokes. "Instead of the main characters feasting on the blood of their victims, they feast on the money. And they never seem to get enough of it."

When the collapse walloped the country last September, Moore says he knew not only that it would matter to regular people, but also that the inherent decadence was ripe for his style of satire.

"If you go to see my movies, even if you don't agree with everything in the movies, you're going to have a good laugh," Moore says. "I want them to walk out at the end saying 'Wow, that was something!' And in this case, maybe they also walk out asking the ushers, 'Um, excuse me. Where are the pitchforks and torches?' "