Confessions of an Alex Smith Fan: One Star-Crossed QB’s Bedazzling NFL Journey

One thing about covering an NFL team: You quickly learn that Mr. Schedule-maker gives, and that he takes away.

When your team plays on Monday, that means not only do you have Sunday off to enjoy the other games at a bar like a filthy commoner, but that you get two days off during the middle of the week, both the standard Tuesday and the bonus Wednesday, because the team's workweek gets bumped a day back.

Sure, you have to come in for a bit of work on Saturday when you'd rather be sleeping in or watching the college games, but really it's like a half-day, the kind you got in school during standardized testing.

Long story short, I had a lot of downtime this past week, which meant ...

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