Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, September 27, 2024
I didn’t think Hurricane Helene was anything to pay attention to, but when you board up a Waffle House, that sends a serious message. For those of you that don’t know, there’s something called the Waffle House Index
Man, that was a tough football game to watch last night. I’m sure Amazon wasn’t proud of that product. And why the heck didn’t the Cowboys do the Landry Shift to run the clock out at the end of the game? This team can’t do anything right.
As someone who wanted to avoid something like this at all costs, this stopped me down for a bit yesterday. There is so much right and so much wrong with this.
I’m a big fan of Monday Night Football’s Manning Cast. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at last Monday’s broadcast. A lot of folks don’t like to see how the sausage is made. Not only do I want to see it, but I want to be a part of the process.
I like how it came to be. ESPN wanted the Mannings to be part of a broadcast team, but they didn’t want to commit the time and be apart from their families. So, the network asked what if they could sit on the couch in their basements and talk football with their brother for three hours on 10 Monday nights per year. That was appealing, so the ManningCast was born.
They followed Tony Dungy’s advice: “Don’t do anything for a year, then decide what you don’t want to do first.”
Their contract runs through the 2034 season.
I like the addition of Belichick, who has a defensive mind compared to the two quarterbacks. Who would have thought 15 years ago that Peyton Manning and Bill Belichick would team up to call games?
Here’s something for my fellow fans of The West Wing. Here’s what it took to shoot the longest walk-and-talk in the show’s history. Also, towards the end of this long scene, I like this bit of trivia: While President is high on his back pills, he tells his aide Charlie that “Charlie’s a great name.” Martin Sheen, who plays President Bartlet, named his youngest son “Carlos” but nicknamed him “Charlie”.
