Presenting Football Friday!

Gregg (double G to his friends) Easterbrook is my kind of sports columnist. ESPN’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback (not to be confused with Peter King of SI the Monday Morning Quarterback) writes books like The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, and later this month, Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed. These are like Thomas Friedman’s bestsellers, except even Friedman doesn’t get Eric Schmidt of Google making advance sale statements like “This is the business book you must read.” The guy was a fellow at The Brookings Institution and is Senior Editor of The New Republic.

I share two things with Gregg. We are both graduates of Colorado College. We both obsess over football. I figure if a man of Gregg’s substance, character and thought can write a weekly football column (one of the best, too)... then why the hell can’t I?

So if you ever read my Stat Pack and wondered how (or better, why) I have the stamina to analyze something to pieces, see trends and obsess over the little things... well you’re about to find out.

Tune in Friday and throughout the playoffs. One column a week, dedicated to football. From a slightly different perspective.