I promise I won't mention the upcoming Patriots-Colts football game in this column.

Woops. Too late.

Well, now that the cat is out of the bag, I've been purposely avoiding turning on the television this week to spare myself from the latest "Game of the Century" talk.

Instead, I've spent my time more constructively, like trying to break 200 on Wii bowling — and trying to figure out the answers to some questions that have eluded me.

Here are just a few:

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Question: Why is there no mercy rule in high school soccer?As I was sitting in the KarnsCity press box last week watching the Gremlins boys and girls "fotbol" teams do a Patriots on Kane and Brockway to the combined score of 14-nil (that's soccer talk), it occurred to me both games really should have been stopped long before 80 minutes had passed.There's a mercy rule in high school baseball, in high school football and even in high school basketball. So, why not in high school soccer?Even if Brockway would have found Pele in the stands and given him a Rovers soccer uniform in the second half, there was no way it was coming back from a 6-0 deficit.

Answer: If a high school baseball team is drubbing another team 10-0 after five innings, the game is stopped. A reasonable insurmountable deficit in soccer is 5-0 after 60 minutes of play. End the game right there.We will all thank you for it.•

Question: Where can I get a naked coach costume for a late Halloween party?

Answer: Rumor is JonKitna is trying to unload one on eBay.•

Question: Is there a team Curt Schilling

isn't considering signing with?

Answer: The Pirates. All their money is tied up in Matt Morris.•

Question: What are the people who run District 10 thinking?It's a yearly debate that by now you would think wouldn't be necessary.But District 10 appears committed to making a mockery of its football playoffs, particularly inClass AAA.Teams have no idea what they have to do to qualify for the playoffs. In fact, in Class AAA, they don't even know how many teams will actually be there.The committee will convene this weekend to select either four, six or eight teams to join their little postseason party. How they decide this seems purely arbitrary. The fact they can pull a number of playoff teams out of a hat is even more arbitrary and unfair.

Answer: They aren't thinking. If they were, they would have scrapped this "selection committee" a long time ago and set clear-cut parameters to make the playoffs, like, oh, say, finishing in the top two of the region, for instance.•

Question: Why did I cut Braylon Edwards from my fantasy football team after Week 1?

Answer: How was I supposed to know Derek Anderson was going to turn into Kurt Warner, circa 1999?•

Question: Who will win the Pats-Colts game?

Answer: The Colts in my heart, the Pats in my head.Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for Butler Eagle.