Hope You are Doing Well

Greetings, we've made it to the end of the month and are one day closer to Spring. I am alive and well and have frequently planned to write in this blog, but just as frequently got distracted. As a result I am still posting only once or twice a month.

I have a lot to say about the current administration in the United States, but you'll need to stay tuned for my take on Washington and the way the media has reacted.

My most written about topic has always been sports. I won't go into detail about the game, but congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks on winning the NFL Championship. The Seahawks made the New England Patriots offense look like a seventh grade flag football team. I enjoyed the first half and the tough defense displayed by Seattle and New England. The second half wasn't much to see as Seattle exerted its dominance.

Look for more thoughts from an old man in the middle of the Midwest United States.

"A TV Ratings Dud"

When I wrote two nights ago that I could care less about this year's Super Bowl, I didn't realize how many other people felt the same way.  Based on overnight TV Ratings for this year's version of the NFL championship, it was not well watched.

James Brady and Adam Stites of SB Nation have a well written article pointing out why this year's ratings were so lame.

And the writers at SB Nation were also critical of the hyped up halftime show with Maroon 5.

Finally, to be honest, I watched much of the second half of the game at a party at the home of friends.  The party was great but the game sucked.  The food and drink at the party overcame the boring football game the National Football League inflicted on us.  Hopefully, a couple of different teams will make it to Super Bowl 54.

Another Who Cares Sporting Event

It's less than 24 hours to the Super Bowl and I could care less who wins.  For that matter I could care less about the National Football League and its hype of this year's championship game between the Patriots and Rams.

I was a Rams fan up until three years ago but the team's owner Stan Kroenke decided to move the team back to Los Angeles.  Cheering for the Rams is now like cheering for a girl that dumped me.  And the Patriots, are the biggest of the cheaters in the NFL.  (Well, there are most likely many cheaters in the NFL, but they have been smart enough not to get caught).  I cite Spygate in 2002 and Deflategate in 2015.

So, it comes down to the "Dumpers" or the "Cheaters".  As I said in October when a different Los Angeles team played a different Boston team its another "Who Cares" championship.  The best I can hope for is both teams play badly and beat the crap out of each other.

Super Bowl 49 Thoughts

Seattle should have won Super Bowl XLIX (Every time I look at those Roman Numerals I think they belong to a Mexican radio station).

Pete Carroll outsmarted himself by not running on second and goal from the one yard line with a timeout left late in the 4th quarter.  Seattle's Offensive line had been winning the war in the trenches for most of the quarter.  With Marshawn Lynch going into "Beast" mode I doubt the Patriots defense, even with nine men in the box, could have stopped Seattle.  So, the Seahawks management decided to stop themselves and lost to New England 28-24.

The game reminded me of Super Bowl 36 when the Patriots pulled off a huge upset by beating the Saint Louis Rams 20-17.  The Rams had All Pro and future Hall of Fame Running Back Marshall Faulk in the backfield.  But, the Rams Head Coach "Mad" Mike Martz decided to throw the ball all afternoon. That didn't work out so well for the Rams and they lost to an inferior team which just happened to be quarterbacked by Tom Brady and coached by Bill Belichick.

Oh and one final thought.  Belichick and the Patriots cheated that year too, as they spied on the Rams in their practices leading up to the Superbowl New Orleans.  I guess the saying "Once a cheater, always a cheater" is true.

The Who Cares Superbowl

We are about four hours away from Super Bowl 49 in suburban Phoenix.  Most years I have a team I want to win.  This year I really don't care who wins the game.

I'm not a fan of either team.  I can't root for the Patriots.  The team's head coach Bill Belichick is a cheater who's been caught on more than one occasion.  And the coach of the Seahawks, Pete Carroll isn't exactly a choir boy.  To put it mildly I think Carroll is a sleazeball who jumps ship at the first sign of adversity. He got out of Los Angeles one step ahead of the NCAA.

Another thing about the Seahawks I don't care for is their players strange behavior.  These idiots look into a TV camera and scream.  I've heard the talk of them taking Adderall to play better. Maybe that explains the moronic behavior.

I will root for a good game.  If not I might turn on one of the marathons on a satellite channel.