Where I last left off, I had said that based upon who advances, I would consider Super Bowl 51 the real golden anniversary of the first Super Bowl in 1967, reasoning that other major things from 1967 will also celebrate their golden anniversaries in 2017 (like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Summer of Love, and one of my favorite TV shows, Mannix), having already stated my displeasure for Super Bowl 50.
The NFL is back in LA, albeit I think it's 17 years overdue. The Chargers are probably gonna join the Rams next year, given that the Raiders are likely looking at Las Vegas, no longer "forbidden fruit" when it comes to placing a major league sports team there (the NHL awarded its 31st franchise to Vegas).
My major hopes this season are to see the Packers go 19-0 (and more than make up for the disappointing end to 2011) and the Bears 0-16. We've never seen a perfect and a perfectly bad team in the same season, only one or the other (the 17-0 1972 Dolphins, the 0-14 1976 Bucs, and a team which I won't mention for some of you guys' sake).
In the college game, I want to see a playoff with a Big Ten team (not necessarily OSU), Kansas State, Pitt, and either Missouri or Notre Dame - an all-Northern playoff (Missouri would keep the SEC represented). Actually any combo of four of the five would work. The North is bound to usurp the South as the dominant region in college football. Ohio State started it 2 years ago. It was delayed by a year last year. But it is inevitable.