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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

                                                    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Saskatchewan wins Grey Cup!

The Saskatchewan Roughriders won the 2013 Grey Cup!  Of course, the game was in Regina so they were the clear home team but winning a championship on your home field does not happen very often! 

Too bad it was against Hamilton, the team I played for briefly.

There are only eight teams in the Canadian Football League, so you are going to play everyone multiple times, so get used to it. I am still glad the Riders won.  I was texting and calling my cousin Pete in Regina during the game, which I was able to watch.  He said the city was going insane.  I am glad because I would not have wanted to be in Regina if they lost...LOL.  Talk about people in a bad mood!

I am not sure who is crazier--Pittsburgh Steeler or Saskatchewan Roughrider fans--and it might be wise not to find out but it is always fun to win a championship in either place!

Now, try to repeat!

Worry about that next year.....

Alternate uniforms

This is the Golden Age of Alternate Uniforms....especially in football.  I have never seen so many alternate uniforms in one year as I have in college football.  The Oregon Ducks have been doing it for years but now it seems a lot of teams are finding some way to turn their uniforms inside out.  Some look pretty good.  Some are awful.  If you can stomach it, look at the University of Indiana's or University of Maryland's

The NFL seems to fixate more on throwback uniforms and to be honest, most of them deserve to be called "throwaway."  My Steelers have the worst looking one but Michelle likes their socks, so we may be stuck with them for a while.  The only problem is that sometimes I cannot tell who is playing.

"Black out" uniforms are a failure.  Sorry, they just are.  Although they remind me of the Northmarcher elite Demon Division, the problem is that they all look the same.  No distinctiveness.  I don't know about the psycobabble about all black causing fear but anyone who steps out onto the field with 300 plus pound linemen is out of his mind anyway.

East Carolina has suddenly started wearing black pants with black helmets and purple jerseys.  Looks too much like the Baltimore Ravens....definitely need to change that!  Better to go to all purple but then you end up getting Minnesota Viking comparisons....

And so it goes on.....:-P

Daylight Savings Time

Why not just stick with one "time" and stop confusing everyone?

Daylight Savings Time started, I think, in 1917 to give farmers an extra hour of daylight.  Since less than 1% of our population is engaged in agriculture, it might be time to rethink this policy.  Personally, keep it and watch the sun go down an hour later.  This changing the clocks just confuses everyone and throws off everyone's "internal clock" for about a week.

I am not sure who to call but if you figure that out, tell me and we can see what can be done. Yes, there are bigger and worse things out there but if nothing else, we will know what time it is!