Sportings kind of day

Today was filled with football, golf, and (very soon) baseball.

The Patriots managed to stink the place up and they lost 41-21 to the Texans

Maye started and since the offensive line still sucks, he didn't have a good outing. They had at least three turnovers and Maye got sacked several times.

And the defensive line wasn't faring much better. The Texans were up 14-0 before the end of the first quarter.

Oh well. Next up for them is a trip to London, England where they will play the Jaguars. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:30 am our time. And by "our time", I mean Eastern Daylight Savings Time

As for my other football team, the Steelers, they are playing as I type but I can't watch them because CBS thinks it's more important for me to listen to a bunch of guys talk about how bad the Patriots played...

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Tonight starts the NLCS series between the Mets and the Dodgers.

First pitch is at 8:15. Since the game is being carried by a network that loves the sound of it's own voice (FOX) we should assume first pitch will happen sometime before 8:45

Go Mets!

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Things I miss:

Cars:
Those side vent "wing" windows - Those things were great and there was no reason to remove them from car design. No reason at all.

Push buttons - The touch screen is a pain in the ass and if you want to change something, you have to take your eyes off the road so you can find the spot on the screen to touch. With buttons, you could just feel it and then push it.

Ashtrays - They were perfect for holding a shitload of quarters for things like parking meters, toll-booths (I don't miss those) and just to generally have some spare change when you needed it.


Candy:
Candy cigarettes - Yes, I know people think those things made kids turn into smokers but people are wrong. No kid ever started smoking because of a candy cigarette. We all started smoking because it was cool and it made us look rebelious.

Black Jack Gum - I like licorice-flavored anything.


Television:
Anything other than 24 hour news networks - The worst part of our society is made even worse by all the so-called "24 hour news networks". They aren't news networks, they are opinion networks. There is not 24 hours worth of news occurring in the world. There is at most, 2 or 3 hours of news in any given day. That means CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc... spend the other 21/22 hours telling us what they think about things.

Westerns - "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Maverick", etc... And while "F-Troop" wasn't really a western, it was funny as hell.


Sports:
Marching bands during the half-fime of a football game - I could care less what some bonehead thinks of how so-and-so is playing. Show me the Michigan State marching band forming shapes on the field.

ABC's Wide World Of Sports - That was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, watching ski jumping, curling, bocci ball, rattlesnake hunting, whatever they could find. Jim McKay was the announcer and he made every "sport" sound like it was the best sport ever invented. "The thrill of victory... The agony of defeat"


United States:
Dreams - As a nation, we used to have big dreams. "Let's go to the moon!", "Let's create public schools!", "Let's run municiple hospitals!", etc... Now all of that stuff is being done by for-profit businesses. Damn shame if you ask me. I've always said we needed a massive public works project to get us off fossile fuels. Something like the Manhattan Project but instead of creating a weapon, they create a power source that can effectively replace fossile fuels.

Parties - 1976 was the nations bicentennial year. Trust me when I say this country threw a hell of a party for that celebration. Also, when was the last time you saw a ticker-tape parade? We held ticker-tape parades for anyone who did anything cool or exciting.

That's all I can think of right now but it's a good bet that at least half a dozen more things will pop into my head in the future.

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I'm going to leave you with these links:

• Key line in this story: "...leaning tower of penis..."



• I can't help but wonder how much Goya Foods is paying him to shill for them.



• Florida: We're not Australia but we're working on it.



• Rest in Peace Robert Adolph Boehm.



• Researchers: Contributing to the betterment of society or a complete waste of perfectly good oxygen.



• Key poll choice in this story: "Don't want to vote for either..."



• Key line in this story: "And knows damn well it's not supposed to be here."



• They started going downhill when they stopped selling those microwaveable Stewart Sandwiches.



• If he were my neighbor, I'd take care of that problem with my trusty pellet gun...