The Cold, Hard Football Facts don't beat up the pigskin "pundits" quite as much as we used to do in our early days.
Back in our pugnacious upstart era it felt really good to rack up the first-round knockouts in the ring of pigskin analysis. In fact, we used to condemn our defenseless conquests to
Pigskin Detention, where their souls rotted away in the fiery hell of factless opinion.
Nobody took bigger and uglier beatings than Pete Prisco, the uber-hack at CBSSports.com and sports radio talk show host in Jacksonville.
Ultimately our victories grew too easy and they lost their thrill – kind of like upstart Boise State relieving itself of major-conference "powers" with all the regularity of a court-ordered Metamucil enema.
Pretty soon even the traditional conferences and the pigskin "pundits" could no longer deny our greatness. In fact, most of them submitted at our feet without a fight.
But, to Prisco's credit, one of our victims has climbed up off of a canvas covered in his own blood and has finally agreed to debate the Cold, Hard Football Facts. The spot is slated for Thursday at 6:05 p.m. (ET)
We don't know how it will turn out, but we do know this:
Vegas is laying 1 to 1 odds that Prisco gets dragged out of his own studio in an ambulance after the beating he's about to suffer.
(Ed. Note: if you want to spare yourself the obnoxious, self-indulgent CHFF navel-gazing below, here's the short version: our chubby Chief Troll, aka, the 
