The Super Bowl is coming up Sunday, and it will probably have very little to do with football. In addition to the snacks, beer, and commercials, there will be some odd little bets you can make, if you're so inclined, on everything from the length of the National Anthem to the number of times President Trump will tweet about the game.
They'd rather be skipping the Pro Bowl this weekend to get ready for the Super Bowl instead, but it's still a big honor to be selected to play with the best of the best in the NFL's all-star game. And there are several players with Texas ties headed to Orlando to play in Sunday's Pro Bowl.
The rest of the team traveled to Jacksonville by plane, but quarterback Deshaun Watson took a 12-hour bus ride to avoid having cabin pressure on his bruised lung and injured ribs. And JJ Watt is totally jealous!
With the NFL kickoff tonight, it's time to get your picks in! If you're part of an office pool or our online contest, you'll want to save these winners.
A couple of these picks may be wildly unpopular.
What are the odds that the Cowboys will go 16 and 0 this season? I say 50-50. Either they will or they won't. The NFL season is near, and with that comes some trash talkin' by arm-chair quarterbacks about which games they'll win and why. So let the not-so-expert analysis begin.
The most popular teams end up in the prime TV slots during the NFL season, and after years of dominance by the Cowboys, the Texans are starting to catch up. Between the two teams, fans will get seven prime-time games this fall.