Alberto Riveron Fun Fact of the Day: July 22, 2012

Welcome to the Alberto Riveron Fun Fact of the Day! Each day, you’ll find out something new that you probably didn’t know about esteemed NFL referee Alberto Riveron. Please enjoy responsibly.

Did you know that…

Alberto has his mother clean his referee pants every Wednesday night because “Nobody gets them as clean as she does” and “[S]he puts a perfect crease on them?”

Now you do!

Well, howdy there partners…

Hello. You are reading the first post ever written for the blog Someone Still Loves You, Alberto Riveron. If you have arrived at this address in hopes of reading articles and stories related to the National Football League, you are in luck! If you’re here because you’re a Riveron family member and you were surfing Google in hopes of reading something positive about Uncle Al, you are also in luck! We here at SSLY,AR are hopelessly devoted to raising the profile of someone who is both one of the finest, most stalwart referees currently working in the NFL and the finest storm panel salesman we have ever known. If, however, you’ve arrived here with the expectation of gaining new perspective on the elk of the Cataloochee Valley, we must regretfully inform you that you have come to the wrong place. It is quite possible that this website is more what you’re looking for.

Readers should expect Someone Still Loves You, Alberto Riveron to view the NFL through a lens very much informed by statistical analysis and irreverent humor, with occasional Alberto Riveron-related trivia sprinkled in. Readers should also remember that as much as the writers behind SSLY,AR like to insist that they know more about the NFL than everybody else, they actually do not. Thus, do not necessarily take predictions such as “The Rams will win 13 games in 2012” as gospel or bet all life savings in Vegas on a “Blaine Gabbert will win the MVP award this season” pick. Rather, appreciate this blog for what it is: a place where the NFL is loved almost as much as an above-average fart joke.

Thanks for reading.

Statistical Methods You Should Probably Know About

I started writing a big, long post explaining in depth the statistical methods I plan on using on this blog to defend my inane predictions, but I then realized two things:

I haven’t actually created any of these methods myself and the people who actually came up with them most likely will explain them better than I will.
Writing that stuff is really boring.

Thus, I’m just going to use this post as a big link dump for the explanations behind all the advanced stats that I’ve found helpful and get back to making Mike Singletary jokes.

I’ll go back and edit this post if and when I find more articles I think are neat-o.