A foam finger made its cable TV primetime debut on Sunday, a little ahead of the first NFL Sunday of the year. To the horror of everyone watching, especially Robin Thicke, the foam finger in question was used by Miley Cyrus during the MTV Video Music Awards to simulate various sex acts on stage. Did we need a reminder of how much we need football back on TV?

231,000: Tweets per minute generated by the Super Bowl blackout in January.

306,000: Tweets per minute generated by Miley Cyrus’ performance at the “MTV Video Music Awards”.

5.5: The approximate number of hours before Marlon Byrd T-shirt night at Citi Field that the New York Mets traded Byrd to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

23: The amount of points USC is favored by on BetOnline against Hawaii in their Thursday night game, part of the opening night of college football.

44.5: The amount of points USC was favored by against Hawaii last year in their opening-night game. USC would win 49-10, failing to cover the spread.

$99 million: The estimated revenue the Houston Astros will generate during the 2013 MLB season.

$21 million: The Houston Astros 2013 payroll.

-300: The odds of the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos winning their respective divisions, making them the largest favorites on Bovada to win their divisions.

+2000: The odds of the Oakland Raiders winning the AFC West division, making them the largest underdogs on Bovada to win their division.

11th: The ranking that ESPN analyst Ran Jaworski gave San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick during his QB Countdown List in July. This is the same quarterback who in August Jaworski said may become the greatest quarterback in NFL history.

+1500: Odds on 5Dimes of an NFL team finishing the regular season 16-0.

+2500: Odds on 5Dimes of an NFL team finishing the regular season 0-16.

27: Consecutive season-opening wins by Nebraska, the longest active streak in the country. Florida is second with 23, and USC and Wisconsin are tied for third with 15.

-500: Odds of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis winning the MTV VMA for Best Hip-Hop Video on Sunday night for their song “Can’t Hold Us,” making it the biggest favorite of the event on Bovada. The duo would go on to win the award on a night full of upsets.

+700: Odds of Bruno Mars winning the MTV VMA for Best Male Video for his song “Locked Out Of Heaven”. Mars would go on to win the award, making him the biggest upset winner of the night.

$71.5 million: Annual earnings of Roger Federer, according to Forbes.

$29 million: Annual earnings of next-highest paid tennis player, Maria Sharapova (Novak Djokovic, $26.9 million, and Rafael Nadal, $26.4 million, are third and fourth).

+725: Odds of Cardiff City winning on Sunday against English Premier League favorite, Manchester City. Cardiff City, a team promoted to the top flight of the EPL for the first time in 51 years, stunned Manchester City, 3-2.

+215: Odds of Manchester City (1-1-0) to win the EPL this season on 5Dimes after their stunning loss to Cardiff City.

+600,000: Odds of Cardiff City (1-1-0) to win the EPL this season on 5Dimes following their upset win over Manchester City.

37.5: The amount of points Wake Forest is favored by on Sportsbook.ag against FCS program, Presbyterian in their Thursday night game, part of the opening night of college football, making the Demon Deacons the largest favorite of the night.

4,815: Total undergraduate enrollment at Wake Forest, giving the school the smallest undergraduate enrollment of any school in a BCS football conference. Rice and Tulsa have the smallest undergraduate enrollments among all Division I FBS schools.