May 12, 2023 News and Notes

• The NHL does not give a shit.  Pietrangelo got ONE GAME for that 12-to-6 hack job, which probably precipitated the fight which got the other team's player suspended!!
• The future of the Professional Fighting League is in danger.  The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned nine of their fighters, it appears for drugs.  Four of the 10 light-heavyweights and three of the 10 heavyweights all dinged hot, allegedly.
• The National Religion released their mass schedule Thursday night:
• Chiefs-Lions is the trophy game to open the season September 7.
• Chiefs-Bengals, the last TWO AFC title games, is rematched in KC Week 17 on New Year's Eve.
• Eagles-49ers, last year's NFC title tilt, rematched Week 13 in Philly.
• The Jets get FIVE prime time games, including a match against the Bills on the first Monday Night Football of the year.
• The Packers also get five primetime games.
• The top two picks in the draft, quarterbacks for the Texans and Panthers, scheduled to meet Week 8 in Carolina.
• Christmas:
• Raiders at Kansas City
• Giants at Eagles
• Ravens at 49ers
• First ever Black Friday game:  3:00 PM Eastern the day after Thanksgiving, Dolphins at the Jets.
• Thanksgiving:
• Green Bay at Detroit
• Washington at Dallas
• Commanders at Seahawks
• Winning has it's privileges:  Jacksonville gets it's first Sunday Night game in 15 years and it's first Monday Night game in 12.  They are also in two of the five foreign games this year (they do get one advantage -- it's the Falcons in Week 4, the Bills in Week 5).
• And losing has it's penalties:  For the first time in a number of years, the NFL will no longer require every team to get a prime-time game.  And four do not:
• Houston (which will play every game in the early window except for a trip to Denver in Week 13)
• Indianapolis
• Arizona
• and Atlanta
• And with the schedule now out, Caesar's has it's initial win totals up for 2023-24.
• Double-digit AFC
• Buffalo 10.5
• Cincinnati 11.5
• Kansas City 11.5
• Lowest AFC
• Houston 5.5
• Indianapolis 6.5
• Double-digit NFC
• Dallas 10.5
• San Francisco 11.5
• Lowest NFC
• Arizona 5.5
• Tampa Bay 6.5
• Couple of interesting ones
• Detroit is the pick to win the NFC North and it's total is 9.5  The person doing the preview thinks the Bears will go worst to first.
• Green Bay's total:  7.5.  That's two of the easiest monies on the board.  Under them both.  Detroit for the gambling ring, Green Bay for the transition.   
• 28 of the 32 teams are 7 and up.  23 are 7 to 9.5 -- meaning there's a lot of belief there's going to be a lot of shit football next season in the NFL.