NFL season just keeps getting crazier

The musical group "Widespread Panic" has been touring the country this fall, but its name also describes what's been happening around the NFL.

Already this season, Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis has fired a coach (Lane Kiffin), refused to pay that coach, had a grievance filed against him by that coach, and this week further flipped out the locker room by cutting a star (cornerback DeAngelo Hall) acquired less than nine months ago for two draft picks.

Coaches also have been fired in San Francisco and St. Louis.

The 49ers' interim coach, Mike Singletary, was singled out by an unknown locker room snitch for mooning his players during halftime of a dreadful loss.

Jacksonville coach Jack Del Rio is battling locker-room problems after booting the defensive team captain (Mike Peterson) from the building for interrupting a tongue-lashing instead honoring a command to be mum.

The winless Detroit Lions put their veteran starting quarterback (Jon Kitna) on injured reserve so he couldn't be a disruption anymore and today may start a quarterback (Daunte Culpepper) who hasn't been in the league all season until signing this week.

The Dallas Cowboys are a mess sans injured quarterback Tony Romo. The coach (Wade Phillips) is on the hot seat. One star wide receiver (Terrell Owens) is in a grumpy funk because he's not getting the ball, another (Roy Williams) is hardly mattering after being acquired at midseason for a bounty of draft picks, and a cornerback (Adam Jones) is in alcohol rehab after getting suspended indefinitely by the commissioner.

Water pills -- what is the world of anti-doping coming to anyway? -- have multiple players around the league facing suspension for violating the steroids and related substances policy.

In Cincinnati, the Bengals finally have a win to celebrate, but have a quarterback (Carson Palmer) out with a bum elbow and a receiver whose legal last name (Ocho Cinco) doesn't match the last name on his Bengals jersey (Johnson).

As if that wasn't enough, Brett Favre is playing for the Jets, Tom Brady isn't playing at all, and Peyton Manning and the Colts are barely clinging to a .500 record.

There's no way the second half of the season can top all of that -- can it?