With NFL training camps underway and the first preseasons games kicking off on Thursday August 9, the NFL season is really almost here. Last season featured some big changes in the NFL landscape, with several teams with a recent history of mediocrity came out swinging. The Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Carolina Panthers were just three of the many surprises we saw. Tebowmania, a dominant Niners and Texan teams, it was quite a changing of the guard. Live Toast's 2012 NFL preview looks at the top ten NFL storylines we'll be keeping an eye on this season. With demand for tickets strting to pick up, it looks like we're not the only ones with football on the mind! [Read more]

Have you seen those clever Direct TV commercials? The ones where a chain of events leads to miserable circumstances (such as waking up in a roadside ditch) as a result of not subscribing to Direct TV? Well, a similar-ish chain of events led to the New York Giants killing my cat. True story. Here's how it went down: The night of Super Bowl XLII, February 3, 2008, found me avidly caulking the baseboards of the house we'd moved into a couple of months earlier. I had a caulking gun, a rag, and a ... [Read more]