Turning the page on 2013....

It was a good year and now a new one is upon us!  Go forth and conquer into 2014!

Happy Boxing Day!

Decided to try something new! :-P

Saturday The Fourteenth

The day after Friday the 13th features rain pouring down by the buckets!

At least the Army-Navy game is on and in the snowy conditions I like so much.  I have a million books to read and Michelle will try to get me to watch "Michelle Movies"/documentaries about all sorts of odd stuff.

She probably thinks the stuff I watch is weird...Crusades, Alexander, Seven Years War etc....LOL

We move closer to Christmas so there is not a lot happening at the moment.  Probably just as well but if I have to comment on any issues of the day, it is this: "Get out of Afghanistan and let the idiots destroy each other."

Army just scored a touchdown and they have a 105mm howitzer in the stadium....Is that safe? 

Oh well, its Philly.....

Haas Thanksgiving Football Weekend

This year's Thanksgiving Football weekend was spread out a bit since Thanksgiving was really late in the month.  In fact, it started before Thanksgiving--in Canada!

The Sasakatchewan Roughriders won the Grey Cup and my cousin Pete was out in the streets of Regina celebrating.  It was the Riders first championship since 2007 and you have to remember that they suffered through two Cup losses in 2009 and 2010 to Montreal.  This time, they beat my old team, Hamilton,  It would have been better to take out Montreal but you play whoever makes it through the playoffs.  This game was in Regina on the Riders' homefield so that made it an even more special win.

The rest of my teams tanked....LOL

My Steelers lost to the Ravens on Thanksgiving night 22-20 despite Coach Tomlin's best efforts :-P.  I have never seen the Steelers win on Thanksgiving.  This was their first turkey day game since the infamous "heads-tails" game against Detroit back in 1998.  Maybe we should keep away from turkey day football....

  East Carolina was pummeled but Marshal 59-28, losing any chance of going to the Conference-USA championship.  It is their last year in C-USA before they go to whatever the Big East has "evolved" into...The American Athletic Conference or something like that.  ECU is 9-3 and heading to some bowl, probably the Military Bowl against Maryland according to the panjandrums at ESPN.

Before West Virgina ran off to the Big 12 (or 14?) and Pitt bolted to the ACC, the day after Thanksgiving was traditionally the day of the Backyard Brawl.  This year, I had to settle for watching Pitt lose to Miami 41-31.  Will Pitt go to a bowl game?  With a record of 6-6 and a million bowl games, it is certainly possible.

Not the best record but a Grey Cup championship makes up for it!  Of course, if you are watching football with Michelle sleeping on the couch next to you and with Sprinkles the cat sleeping on the other side, you have all ready won regardless of what the scoreboard says.