If the regular season in the National Football League is anything like what transpired in the preseason, it's going to be a fun-filled year.

Let's review:

• I wonder how long it takes Brett Favre to pick a snack out of the vending machine at the Vikings' complex?

A-5? Nah. Well, maybe. No, B-20? Eh, not sure. A-17? Yeah. That's the one — unless it's not.

M&Ms with peanuts or plain? Animal crackers or Chex Mix? Decisions, decisions.

Once Favre did decide to play again, coming out of retirement for the third time — or enough times for even Larry Holmes to think it is ridiculous — he apparently wants to play offensive guard for the Denver Broncos, the way he goes for the knees of defenseless defenders.

Wow. This train wreck should be fun to watch.

• The scoreboard at the billion dollar monstrosity that is the new Dallas Cowboys stadium could win special teams player of the year.

It could average a blocked punt a game. Somewhere, Frank Gantz is smiling.

It will be interesting to see how the league handles this during the regular season. What happens if a quarterback drops back, rolls out and decides to heave one as far as he can at the scoreboard, knowing if his pass strikes the behemoth, the down will be replayed.

Sort of like when you were playing touch football in the backyard and a pass hit the clothes line.

Do over!

• It's not a good thing when you fire your offensive coordinator less than two weeks before the regular season.

But that's what first-year Kansas City coach Todd Haley did when he jettisoned Chan Gailey.

Haley now will assume all play-calling duties. Rumor has it he also will douse himself in Gatorade after his first victory and will interview himself in the postgame news conference.

• If this whole pro football thing doesn't work out for Denver whine receiver, er, wide receiver Brandon Marshall, he might have a career in beach volleyball.

Instead of catching passes in practice last week, he batted them away. A few of them looked to be pretty good sets and there were a few good looking spikes in there, too.

He also showed his desire to compete for the punting duties, booting a ball about 40 yards.

But could it hit the Cowboys scoreboard?

• There could be a lot of bad teams in the NFL.

Few will be worse than the Oakland Raiders, who served as little more than a preseason speed bump for the New Orleans Saints in the third preseason game — you know, the one that is supposed to actually mean something.

Other bad teams receiving votes: Tampa Bay, Denver and Buffalo. Using the no-huddle offense is fine if you have Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, Don Beebe and James Lofton. It's nowhere near fine when you have Trent Edwards, Marshawn Lynch, Lee Evans, Josh Reed and Roscoe Parrish.

Roscoe P. Coltrain probably is a better receiver.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.