The Super Bowl

The Super Bowl

A couple of weeks ago I emailed a few friends informing them that the Rams would beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. That was my prediction and it very possible it could be right on the money.  Too bad I wasn't in Vegas.

There are literally hundreds of NFL fans especially those living along the Mississippi who believe the Saints should be in the big game.  The reason being the blown pass interference call. Can anyone describe to me pass interference?  The big 'cop out' call in recent years has been holding before the ball was thrown.  Five yards and an automatic first down. The replay is shown and some times it looks like the defense back actually touched the receiver.

Then on a long pass, the replay will show the receiver and defensive back practically wrestling as the ball is the air and many times there is no call.   Hard to explain but of course this is the league that has a hard time defining a completed forward pass.  What did we ever do before replay?  Oh I remember, if the ball didn't touch the ground it was a completed pass.  Sounds reasonable.  But now you need to have complete control of the ball.   You have heard announcers looking at a replay and saying from this angle it looks like his little finger moved.  The call of a completed pass might be over turned.  More Fans are beginning to accept the fact what we have mentioned for a couple years, that the league is run by a lot of stupid millionaires with law degrees.

The lesson being ---  Be smart enough to get in-law school then when you have earned your law degree you will be dumb enough to make a million.

Regardless the Stupid Bowl will be played Sunday!

The Warriors

The Warriors have certainly rebounded.  Lots of reasons for their recent surge but one has to be the return of the hot shooting Clay Thompson.  Once he started to drill most of his shots the Warriors began rolling.  Let's hope then they haven't peaked too soon and they can remain relatively injury free until the season really begins some time before summer.

One of our blog members relayed me that he thought that Curry telling the media that he believed that we didn't land on the moon would be big news.  It was for a few hours but it was quickly yanked.  Curry is well like so it was easy to do. I can just hear Curry's agent calling him and saying,"What the hell are you doing?"  Say it was a joke and I will get the message out.  Curry is a great person and basketball player but he can be talked into saying almost anything.  Remember he said it was perfectly okay for boys to enter the same bathroom as his daughter.  His agent should tell him to quit listening to CNN.

NBA

The old man injury bug has hit the Lakers with James being out for a number of weeks.  It has hurt plenty for if the season ended today the Lakers would not be in the playoffs. So James is back! Too soon?

Winter Training

With the Super Bowl this Sunday, Winter Training for major league baseball will start about 10 days later with the regular season beginning at the start of spring.  The Giants will not be a contender!

TV News

I was happy to see that the Giants signed  Dave Fleming to continue broadcasting at least 140 games a year for the next few years.  I am sure they have him in mind to be the lead announcer when John Miller finally hangs it up

The 5pm show on NBC Sports Bay Area "Happy Hour" got yanked.  Maybe it was too much Warrior news. I had commented before with the coverage the NBA got on that channel, who needed the NBA network?  The commentators were very liberal and political in their opinions and let everybody know how right they were.  But that's the Bay Area so that probably wasn't the reason. Competition with Tucker Carlson a local boy on Fox News could have contributed to low ratings.  Even though I didn't always agree with their comments I enjoyed the show.