Preseason football is important and meaningless all at the same time. You want to see your starters perform well, but you really don’t want to see them play too much. Maintaining their health trumps winning. The majority of the games are played with backups and the backups to the backups. Finding any significance to these preseason games can prove to be an arduous task sometimes.
There will; however, be some personal significance for the head coaches involved in tonight’s preseason game. Although neither of the head coaches will admit it, as they don’t appear to be the sentimental types.