Today is a very important day.  Before you read the rest of this blog, you need to be sitting down alone with no one reading over your shoulder, because what I’m about to tell you will change your life through the beginning of February.

What I’m going to tell you, you can bring to the bank . . . to buy a new home, meet the love of your life or buy a new wardrobe. Put every last available penny you have on the Patriots winning the Super Bowl.

I’m not a Patriots fan. I’m a Jets fan. In fact, today’s video is from when I was about five or six years old and went to a Jets’ training camp. Check out how Joe Namath looks. Being a true football fan, though, I know the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl.

So against which team will they be playing? The Packers? The Bears? The Giants? Nope. I’m going out on a limb and picking a team no one is going to pick.

I’m not picking this team because of my girlfriend — and I’m certainly not a big fan — but I think the dark horse this year is going to be none other than Drew Brees and the Saints. They won’t make it if they don’t find a defense, but I am predicting now that they will.

You never know. The world’s biggest cry baby may actually lead the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl. You can count on Norv Turner once again getting the Chargers to the playoffs where they will once again lose.

Which team will be the worst team in the NFL this year? No, it’s not the Lions. The worst team in football will be a coin flip between the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC or the Rams.

So this year, the Super Bowl will be the Patriots versus the Saints. The ‘toilet bowl’ will be the Chiefs versus the Rams. Wow, Kansas City versus St. Louis. Interesting how close they are to each other.

For those of you who play fantasy football, you’ve already had your draft so I can’t help you with that. Since football is your fantasy life, though, isn’t it time you made dating your reality life?

It’s funny how guys will say things like, “Next time I see that girl I’m going to say…” They work out this whole fantasy about what they’re going to do or say soon or next time.

I believe in life you can only have one fantasy life at a time. So if you play fantasy football, you can’t have fantasy conversations with women.

Look at the next seventeen weeks as your time to talk to people. Practice just like the players practice.

Be like Peyton Manning practicing throwing balls to Reggie Wayne, except you go to Whole Foods and practice throwing words to women. Saturdays will be your game day (because Sundays you’ll be in front of the television watching football).

As for you women (because I need to talk to both sexes in every blog), you have to understand where the men will be on Sundays. If you’re a woman, you can always play the old ‘damsel in distress’ at a sports bar (like I talk about in my Women’s Mastery Series), because men really go there to watch football and hope a woman walks in the place.

According to my girlfriend, however, not all men like football. So apparently there will be men in the shoe department at Bloomingdales that you can meet . . . although they may be trying on heels.

This really is a good seventeen week season for all of you. I know some of you want to make the playoffs, because who wants to spend Christmas alone? If you don’t start practicing and playing now, you’ll have another Christmas alone wondering whom you will be kissing at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Think it’s too early to think about this? It’s not. Time flies.

As a good NFL coach and as a good NFL general manager, you plan for a long season so you can be one of the teams still standing in January. Do you want to be standing under the mistletoe kissing someone on New Year’s? Do you want to be standing with a woman (or a man) for whom you actually have the hots, or do you want to be sitting on the couch playing armchair dater?

Do you know what an armchair dater is? It is someone who goes home at the end of the night and thinks about everything they could (or should) have done or said.

Aren’t you tired of that? Aren’t you sick and tired of feeling that way?

The summer is over. Whatever grand plan you had for the summer may not have materialized. I’ve found that to be successful in anything, you need to have an action plan.

So it’s time you acted like a winning franchise. You don’t want to be the Cleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions or the Oakland Raiders. You want to be like the Patriots, the Giants or the Steelers. You want to be a team that knows how to win every year.

These teams don’t just go out and wing it. They practice all week and they get prepared for the game on Sunday. They do the ‘one game at a time’ method.

You need to have the ‘one day at a time’ mentality. I know that what I’m saying is resonating with you because, really, the ‘winging it’ method never works in anything in life. It’s time you came up with a game plan.

For those of you who were thinking of taking a Bootcamp this year, I’ve got a few left . . . and that’s it. I’ll give you the structure you need to make this season a winning season.

I would have made a hell of an NFL coach. I know the X’s and O’s, but it’s really all about motivation and kicking ass anyway. So . . . are you ready for some football?

Check out this video…