This Opening Kickoff Spectacle -- Good Lord! It came on fifty minutes ago and the Raiders still haven't come on the field. The Stones, Santana, Ozzy Osbourne in the jaws of a giant football helmet, Pinocchio-style... giant neon towers, fireworks and... oh no they are not. They are not playing O Fortuna.

But of course. They are. Am I ready for some football? YES, and I tuned in an HOUR ago to watch it. What is this, the Colosseum? Why don't they just have some chariot races while they're at it?

Well, maybe O Fortuna does apply; football players live a chancy life:

Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.




I think I can relate.