Who's ready for the most reasonable facsimile of actual football we will see before September 13th. That's right, its time for this year's annual pre-season game against the New York Jets, the game that has become known as the "Snoopy Bowl".
This promises to be the most important of the meaningless games. First and foremost it establishes bragging rights between the cross-stadium rivals over which team's backups can pull out the win. But also this is the third preseason game, the game that is generally used as the "dress rehersal" for the regular season. This is the game that has the starters play the most snaps, the teams actually game plan -- a bit -- for their opponents, and the coaches show actual glimpses of their new schemes and wrinkles for the season.