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Don't believe the Week 1 hype!

By David Fleming
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

The 2007 NFL season officially began for me during a trip up to the press box in Jacksonville, Fla., where I shared the small elevator with the team's blue-spotted, Muppet mascot, Jaxson De Ville. Still humming the Thelonious Monk tune I heard on the way in, I gave Jaxson the perfunctory "what's up?" nod and he responded with a loud, moist, thunderous belch that rocked the elevator and blew back my hair. Who's ready for some football, huh? Everyone in Jacksonville seemed to be, where the preg ...

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