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Whether it's bantering with your office-mates about the weekly pool, swapping the skinny with your friends at the sports bar or trying to impress that hottie on your first date, spouting last season's conventional wisdom about the new NFL season is going to make you as popular as Chris Weinke.
So check out the "What's Hot, What's Not" List below for the 4-1-1 on the names, trends and fads that are at the forefront of Kickoff Weekend. We promise: That first-date hottie really wants to know:
What's Hot, What's Not for NFL 2002
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Category |
Hot |
Not |
"He Hate Me" |
Chris Weinke |
Rod Smart |
Barstool debate |
Who is this season's surprise team? |
Can the Patriots repeat? |
Conventional wisdom |
Systems win championships |
Players win championships |
Position |
Whatever LaVar Arrington is playing |
Quarterback |
Rallying cry |
"We're just gonna pitch it and catch it" |
"We get no respect" |
Whatever happened to ... |
Daunte Culpepper |
Jake Plummer |
Reason to make roster |
"Hard Knocks" watchers get to like you |
Guaranteed money |
Reason for a coach to start a QB |
Played for me in college |
Enamored with ex-baseball career |
Jersey to be seen in |
David Carr |
Tim Couch |
Dud |
Jamal Anderson |
Ricky Watters |
Brewing-controversy backup QB |
Chris Chandler |
Doug Flutie |
Rookie bandwagon |
Antwaan Randle-El |
Roy Williams |
Comeback |
Rodney Peete |
Fred Taylor |
Who? |
Kelly Holcomb |
Mike McMahon |
Super Bowl teams |
Expect the unexpected |
So what that you win your division? |
QB's role |
Spiritual leader
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Ride the defense |
Sexy pick to be champ |
Pittsburgh |
New England |
Overhyped Giant |
Jeremy Shockey |
Jesse Palmer |
MVP bandwagon |
Donovan McNabb |
Shane Matthews |
Complaint about a stadium |
Number of restrooms |
Sightlines of neighboring city |
Fantasy-junkie sleeper WR |
Johnnie Morton |
Jimmy Smith |
Novel way to use your first-round fantasy pick |
Michael Vick |
Priest Holmes |
Mike Shanahan's biggest problem |
Brian Griese, underperformer |
The RB situation |
Record fans want to see broken |
Career rushing-yards total |
TDs in a season |
Day to start season |
Thursday night |
Sunday afternoon |
TV analysis |
"Boom! Thwack!" |
Esoteric cultural references |
Bon Jovi |
NFL anthem-maker |
Big-hair VH-1 staple |
Mr. Extension |
Michael Strahan |
Tom Brady |
Power division |
AFC East |
AFC North |
Line on Bledsoe |
Mr. Hugs 'n Kisses |
Chemistry-wrecker |
Coaching nickname |
Shiny Pants (Steve Spurrier) |
Chucky (Jon Gruden) |
Latest misconception |
Ricky Williams = savior |
Mike Holmgren = genius |
Dan Shanoff is a columnist for Page 2. His "What's Hot, What's Not" trend-spotting list appears Thursdays. Got inside scoop on an up-and-coming trend? Want to declare something passé? Send this glimpse of your hipness to hotnotlist@yahoo.com.
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