Any time you play a good opponent in your opener it's good to get out with a win. Obviously, we've got a lot of things to work on. But the defense made some big plays. With (John) Pemberton, (Michael) Phillips and (Brandon) Walker inside, we're pretty good.

So if you play that out, it's going to be a long time before we can bring a competing option to consumers and break the cable monopoly.

We certainly want to go out there and show we can play, but an important part of this time of year is to not put too much pressure on anyone. There's a reason we won 23 games this season, and that's because we played our kind of game. We just want to continue to play that way.

That's what big-time players do. They put teams on their shoulders, and he hit some big shots tonight.

Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. actually held that steering wheel of the Budweiser car. Jeff Gordon actually held the steering wheel of that DuPont car.

Being able to “think outside the box” presupposes you were able to think in it