2009 NFL Season Preview: Five Things To Watch For

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Published: September 9, 2009

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... team.

Or, at least you should be.

But either way, the only thing keeping you from the start of the 2009 season is a long Wednesday and a droning Thursday. Because Thursday night, after seven, all of the planning, bar-talking, know-it-all conversation, staying up all night before your eight draft-binging—all of that—is gone.

It's done and over with. It's just you, the t.v., and a slug-fest matchup between the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers.

It was the matchup we thought we'd see in last year's AFC Championship, but never got the chance to. It's the ageless wonder, Kerry Collins (or is that Kurt Warner? Or Brett Favre?) versus the sexual plunder, Ben Roethlisberger (shameless, I know. I do apologize).

But it's more than that.

It's a stepping-stone to Sunday, Sept. 13, when the real action begins. When 26 teams square-off and try to create new "firsts," break records, cause dreams to be born, to bring mighty would-be c...

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