CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG

Well, so much for icing the kicker. We don't know if our agent was just tired from working so hard for us, or if she just saw something in the defense that we didn't see that made her call an audible, but the cat's out of the bag.

The original gameplan was to wait a full week to make the seller sweat. Unfortunately, with the recklessness of a young Maverick in Top Gun, our agent put in a call to see if the seller had changed his mind about our offer now. Doh!

If we were playing poker, she's the buddy behind us exclaiming, "Alright! Two Jacks. I think we can win this!"

If you were playing hard-to-get with a certain someone special, she's the girlfriend running up to the guy and telling him "Guess who likes you!"

We don't know why she audibled, but let's hope it was a Peyton Manning audible that will lead to great rewards, and not an Eli Manning audible (though to poor Eli's defense, he is playing in the Super Bowl in a couple of weeks). We are now waiting on the seller's response again and with the track record that the selling agent's established thus far, we anticipate a late non-committal e-mail telling us that the seller is considering our offer and that we'd hear back soon around tomorrow afternoon. Then we'll probably get the "Okay, we'll meet you halfway by asking for full listing price and we don't want to pay closing," email a few days after that. Stay tuned. Good times ahead!