I promise this will not become a football blog. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ll have little else to say on football for awhile. As part of our Good Times Program, we’ve been taking in some major league sports. On Monday, we went and saw the evening football game in San Francisco (vs the New …
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Brief NFL TV Post
This is our first year without the NFL Sunday Ticket (where you can watch any game you want) since possibly the 20th century. The place we’re renting has cable, not satellite. The cable company offers an alternative–the “NFL Red Zone” channel where they switch from game to game as things get exciting. There appear to …
Still need Canadian help, but now I can accept it.
First, apologies to those who tried to comment on the last post and couldn’t. I accidentally checked a box that is now unchecked in the control panel, so please, Canadians, I still need your help. How can I, a nonvoter, help prevent a conservative majority? I don’t have a lot to say about the beginning …
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NFL in Toronto? Reports of the death of the CFL are greatly exaggerated + Telcos are lame
I confess that when reading sports sections, I tend to prefer to read stuff about the business of sport over the stuff about players. For the past few weeks, there has been a buzz in the Canadian press (especially the Globe and Mail) about the possibility of a group of Toronto businessmen purchasing the Buffalo …
…and a good halftime show, to boot
Yes, it’s nice that the Colts finally won even though they think god did it (that’s an old one) and Peyton’s a republican. And they bailed on Baltimore. But the halftime show was simply outstanding. Definitely the best I’ve ever seen. I’d forgotten what a great performer Prince is. I will have to dig out …
Misc and a Recipe
By now it would be passé to comment on the professor who claimed that bloggers were lonely and futile. Besides, how are you supposed to defend that? It’s the classic setup. On the other hand, to lump in all blogs together would be like to say “all people who write for magazines.” My response: Salon.com …