While I'm having my furnace replaced and following the cluster on Wall Street today (amateur opinion: brace yourself, this is just the beginning), here are some football stories I've found today that are either fun, informative, or in some cases both:

Sports Agent Blog posted its first mock draft for 2008.  Yes, everyone's doing mocks nowadays, but I think they probably know more than most on the subject, given that it's a blog for agents.  Anyways, their prediction is that the Bengals will take USC DT Sedrick Ellis with the 9th pick.  I don't know much about projecting college players to the pros, but this strikes me as an extremely solid pick.  Ellis was a monster in '07, and the Bengals need someone more dominant than the Robinsons & Thorntons they've had over the past several years.

Can we all just agree to a moratorium on Brokeback Mountain references in relation to sporting events?  Really, it's an overplayed and unoriginal joke, they weren't that funny to begin with (or as Tami from Real World once said, it wasn't not funny), and - especially when you're using them in reference to Tony dungy - it's just going to stir up arguments.  Really, let it go.  Please.

This is what happens when you don't monitor your Wikipedia profile regularly. (h/t Sports by Brooks)

And finally, this is a day old, but who knew that Eddie Murphy was such a solid predictor of NFL playoff games?  Check out the below exchange from the movie Coming to America:

Prince Akeem:  Sir, did yiou happen to catch the professional football contest on television last night?

Cleo McDowell:  No, I didn't.

PA:  Oh sir, the Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay.  And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big H.  It was a most gripping victory.

CM:  Son.

PA:  Yes.

CM:  If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

PA:  Yes.