[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"]English: Third quarter of the major regular se... Photo credit: Wikipedia[/caption] Football season kicked off last weekend. Actually, the official kick-off was the previous Wednesday night with the Cowboys beating the Giants (yahoo!), but this past Sunday was the first day of regular season games. (Sorry, I don’t count pre-season games as football season.)

[caption id="attachment_674" align="alignright" width="314"] Ecce Homo - Nicknamed "Ecce Mono" after botched restoration attempt. Photo from The Independent.[/caption] We learned that lesson during one excruciating summer. It was back in the days when we owned rental houses. We were gung ho about our real estate investments...