LINARDO TO WIN NFFA CHAMPIONSHIP???
By Bill O'Really, FAUX News
Paris, France -- According to experts at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), famed seer and prognosticator Nostradamus has predicted that the NFFA's 2008 championship game winner will be one of the teams from the Linardo Division.
La Sorbonne scholars released today a new quatrain from Nostradamus' "Le Prophecies de Sporte" which supports their conclusion. Quatrain No. 224 reads as follows:
In the twelfth month of 2008,
In the bowl game considered Superb,
Linardo shall triumph over Jorge,
Jorge having smoked too much herb.
Asked to comment on the new quatrain, Sea Hogs owner Tirik Obobber said, "Well, 'Jorge' does start with a 'j' . . . ."
The release of this new quatrain has generated tremendous excitement among the fans of the Atlanta Smack Daddies and the Fidalgo Island Sea Hogs, one of whom will more than likely win the Linardo Division crown and be the only Linardo Division team to make the playoffs. The Daddies and the Hogs face off against each other this weekend in a matchup that should determine which of them gets to the playoffs and, if the prophecy is correct, becomes the 2008 NFFA Champion.
Nostradamus' prediction has sent shock waves through the NFFA establishment which has unmercifully trumpeted ad nauseum the presumed superiority of the Jorge Division over the Linardo Division based on the won-loss records of the respective teams. However, sports experts are beginning to believe that the won-loss records could be misleading, and that they are more a function of the luck of the draw in scheduling than true measures of actual team strengths.
Whether the new quatrain will silence the incessant harping by Jorge aficionados on the perceived dominance of their division remains to be seen, but if the prediction turns out to be true, the popping of the Jorge balloon will rival that of the housing bubble earlier this year.
