1.  Pink towels:  I saw a towel draped over a player's shoulder pads, and it didn't look clean and white, but it also wasn't completely red.  I figured it might've been a fluke.  I saw another one and thought, This is an NFL team.  Don't they have enough money to get clean towels?  After I saw the same thing in several other games, at different times, and on different networks, it finally all came together:  It had something to do with breast cancer awareness. 

2.  Let's travel back in time to the last 5 or 6 games of the 2006-2007 season, where Jeff Garcia was the Eagles quarterback in place of an injured Donovan McNabb.  Garcia managed to take a below-.500 team to the playoffs, beating the division rival Giants, and losing in the 2nd round to the Saints.  When asked what he would do next season concerning McNabb, coach Andy Reid said he'd bench Garcia and put McNabb in as soon as he was healthy.  My immense knowledge of football and everything else said, If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  Jeff Garcia is a game-winner, McNabb isn't.  Andy Reid surprisingly wasn't able to read my mind and consequently didn't take my advice, and now look at the Eagles.  They're a joke of a team even with a healthy McNabb.  And they got rid of Garcia.  This is why I don't like the Eagles, even though I tell people they're my favorite team. 

3.  I think it's funny how teams that do well one year end up doing poorly the next year, and vice versa.  I can think of three teams off the top of my head:  the Saints, the Bears, and the Chargers.  All three teams had incredible records and made it to the playoffs last year.  They had Pro Bowl players and managed to consistently win and get better each week.  In all three cases, not much changed from last season to this season in terms of personnel, both players and coaches.  Yet all three teams are borderline atrocious so far this season.  Sure it's only week 5 and there's still a ton of time to turn things around, but the obvious question is:  What happened between last year and this year?  What changed?  If your players are generally the same, your coaches are generally the same, and the league is generally the same, what could possibly be different about this season to make you lose so many games so poorly?  Did you get lucky last year?  Were you overrated?  The "vice versa" is also true.  The example that comes to mind is Green Bay.  The team was so bad last year, it almost forced Brett Favre to retire.  But he decided to stay, as did most of his team and most of the coaches.  So what exactly changed from one year to the next to turn a terrible team into a pretty good team?  Who knows.  Maybe Brett Favre is like wine and gets better with age.  But what happened for the last several years when he wasn't good?  Maybe that was his valley and now he'll get exponentially better each year until he retires as the league's MVP at the ripe old age of 65. #sports