Super Bowl L is upon us, except the NFL is abandoning the Roman numerology for this particularly edition. They say the “L” was too difficult to incorporate into a graphic logo, but I think they just wanted unfettered emphasis on the game’s golden anniversary. I did not watch the first Super Bowl. I was wandering in pecan orchards down by the Chattahoochee River with my buddy Marcus, but I do remember the game between Green Bay and Kansas City was being played that day. I have not followed professional football that closely for years, but I will be watching Sunday night. I have heard that a certain fellow graduate of Auburn University will be playing. As for the above classic A&J, it originally appeared in 2013, the very day of the famous “kick six” game. As you love to remind me, a lot of you aren’t sports fans, so if you don’t know what that means, it has its own Wikipedia page. The screaming and ranting that day actually went viral.
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TIP BlogSpot: Looks like that is what the kid is doing. Peace, emb
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From today’s A.Word.A.Day:
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai Stevenson, governor, ambassador (5 Feb 1900-1965).
Peace, emb
My late father attended the first “Superbowl”. Last year, we sold the ticket stub and program on Ebay… and financed a trip to Europe for my mother. Go figure.
I subscribe to these updates via RSS feed to my (apple) mail program. Recently I’ve been getting the notices, but without any content included – just a blank page with a link. Can anyone advise on the change, and how to get the content back?
OF due 1004-1024 CST. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
And if nobody noticed this in the news, http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/maurice_white_founder_of_earth.html
That group had some great harmonies. I never bought an album but never turned off their songs when they came on either.
re: comments about Bob Elliott passing yesterday – my favorite Bob and Ray was about how “there’s a right way and a wrong way to get on a bus with a Christmas Tree” if you ever stumble upon it, look at the book he co-wrote with son Chris “Daddy’s Boy”
The extent to which those here in the Boston area are patently ignoring the Super Bowl (R) is a revelation. If the Patriots aren’t playing, there is no game. To which I say, has there really been a game apart from the first half dozen scrappy affairs?
This is especially for JJ:
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
WAR EAGLE !!!
GO BIG BLUE !!!
GO CAM!!!
LASSO THE BRONCOS !!!
For EMB: Thanks for remembering my favorite board game which is never boring!
BLESSINGS FOR EVERYONE.
I can vouch for this one having had a certain someone pull the blankets too far her direction:
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I was sitting at a Pizzeria with my family when the play occurred. I think I yelled and many patrons looked at me until others in the restaurant started yelling. I thought that was one of the craziest plays ever, until this fall when I was at a wedding reception up North (Michigan) and the Mich St- Mich game was on. Crowd was split in half, but you could tell by who was yelling what was happening on the field. We all assumed Michigan had won until I heard screaming and cursing like I had never heard before. MSU ran back a punt on a ball that the punter dropped. The kid scoring broke his pelvis and was laying in the endzone screaming as much as the guests at the reception. There was too big of a crowd around the TV so I think I saw the play on my phone.
The groom was rooting for Mich St and I told him. Gee, you will get lucky twice tonight.
Sorry if i have repeated both stories.
BTW, I’m pulling for Peyton. If this were NASCAR, he would certainly be riding off into the sunset with the Super Bowl L trophy. Ironically, Super Bowl XL was in Detroit. I thought it was in reference to our shirt size.
Mark, a very happy (belated) birthday to you!
Mark
Yes he is the Odd Traveler
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Drank Genesee way back when – and liked it.
There were a lot of regional beers back then – taken over and
pushed out by the Giants. Now we are back to the good old days
with Micro Brews – there is even a Micro Distillery in the next town.
My parent’s head stone is full both sides – Grandparents on one side.
MBH grandmother & grandfather’s stone was filled in less last date.
The gravedigger(he did it all by hand – even in winter) was wondering if
Grandmother was buried with new husband because of age on stone –
nope – she lived to 104.
So it is not unusual to have the stone prepared ahead – but will be rare
is both of you dancing together – go for it. Be romantic do it on the 14th.
Jimmy J., reading the Wikipedia recap is stirring for a fan of the game, even if I can’t name an Auburn player. Nick Saban can be too persuasive for his own good.
Knowing the comic was published earlier, and that there was likely lead time involved, makes it funnier in hindsight. Do your window peaking skills involve crystal balls?
Rule at our house was always you cheered for the team that was from furthered south or had the southern quarterback unless a Manning was playing in which case that superceded all others.
I doubt I will watch but I am afraid the Manning will get all my good karma and good wishes.
Bringing my John Elway, lucky 7, jersey out of retirement for the Sunday game.
A Missouri couple that had been on a kidnap/robbery/car theft spree in the Southern states was captured after an unsuccessful shootout with Florida sheriff’s deputies early this morning. The media had apparently attempted to glamorize them as a modern day “Bonnie & Clyde” (and if you know anything, you know Bonnie and Clyde were actually about the least glamorous persons you could imagine). The female was wounded, and the male was DRT.
The local sheriff was quoted as saying the male had used the female as a shield while attempting to shoot deputies. And so ended the “saga” of that pair of outlaw lovebirds. Stupid media.
Yeah, their Southern spree started here in Tuscaloosa when they kidnapped/carjacked the manager of a motel about 2 miles from my house. They then drove to Birmingham and tried to pull the same stunt on a McDonald’s manager just coming in for the opening day shift. When she threw her keys at him and started screaming, yo-yo spooked and jumped back in the car he came in. They then drove to another suburb and he forced his way into the house through a basement garage. Surprised a mom/dad and kids having breakfast before church. He was armed, they weren’t, and he kidnapped the mom and forced her to drive them away from there, leaving the kidnapped motel employee in his own car. They forced the mom out down the road and took off in her car.
And that, was the beginning of the story. (apologies to Paul Harvey)
OB: We have already done what was supposed to pass for dancing on our gravesite, so it is not a future plan. I phrase it that way because I have approximately zero talent on a dance floor.
eMb: Regarding the TIP you brought up: in chess, the knight’s move can, indeed, include “jumping” a piece. However, it does not result in the taking of said jumpee….
Having been both carjacking and kidnapped, I find everyone who glamorides criminals stupid and stupider.
Don’t start me on Bonnie and Clyde. I am from North Louis where the legends continue. Stup I’d and stupider.
Louisiana of course where they died. They were psychopaths. Ugly psychopaths. Sociopaths. Sexually incompetent sociopaths.
‘approximately zero talent on a dance floor.’ Another thing we two have in common. Elaine loved me anyway. She and daughter danced for decades at Diane’s Dance Studio, based in ‘The Old Schoolhouse’ s. of town, which also has a boutique. Daughter’s ‘professional’ photo is on the studio wall.
Peace, emb
emb: ref: TIP The ladies family at play is a beautiful work. I was struck by the distant landscape and how it appears the group is on a raised level, similar to Mona Lisa’s balcony. Is there a relation beyond a generic Italianess?
For those of you who don’t know, the short meaning of “DRT” is “Dead Right There”. The longer meaning is “There is now a zero chance a combination of a soft-headed judge and a soft-hearted parole board will put him back on the streets again in three to five years to continue his life of criminality and terrorizing innocent citizens until he finally kills someone.”