by Tony Renteria

OAKLAND–Thursday night was opening night for the NFL as Tom Brady and the New England Patriots opened up their season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Brady’s home record is unbelievable and Vegas has the Patriots up by seven and so you can look forward to a great game between the two teams in New England. The media will be focused on Brady after the game he’ll say he’s glad to be back and that he was not suspended.

Videogate is back: The thing that is going to go forward is NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is the NFL owners face and voice and they are supportive of Goodell but the more it goes forward the playing field is not fair this may hurt Goodell’s credibility a little bit. It’s questionable where this is going to get legs this is going to come from the owners not the media. Videogate is something that happened years ago and it’s all water under the bridge we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

Fantasy Football is mainstream news and count on it each week: Fantasy Football has brought the NFL mainstream. There has been talk about the NFL getting involved in legalized gambling. The NFL does a great job of marketing itself and trying to pull the dollar from everywhere. Your talking about Goodell and what he’s done, imagine Fantasy Football you could play on the NFL website.

Fantasy Football is a huge area of gathering fans who are not into football themselves and getting them to get involved in the game. So Fantasy Football is not going to slow down I see it gaining momentum. A couple of years from now your only going to be able to play Fantasy Football through the NFL your only going to be able to watch the NFL on NFL Network.

Raiders kicks off with Bengals this Sunday: Vegas has the Bengals picked by four for this upcoming Sunday’s game with the Raiders and former Raider head coach Hugh Jackson is coming back with the Bengals as assistant coach and it’ll be his first time in the Coliseum since he was head coach. Raider head coach Jack Del Rio has a different mind set and this should be a good turn around year for the Raiders.

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