I miss big time college football games being called by Keith Jackson or Brent Musburger.
I like the presentation of colors during last night’s College Football Playoff National Championship. The drumming was done with one drummer from each team’s band. It was a cool message, yes this is competition, but we are one nation.
@darrenrovell – Bama’s strength coach made $420,000 this year, Clemson’s made $245,000http://es.pn/1TppXmD – The highest paid strength coach in college is Iowa’s who earns $515,000. As for the top ten, an Oklahoma State and University of Texas coach make the list.
My first and only job in retail was at the now defunct Coach House Gifts in the Mall of Abilene. My manager was a huge fan of David Bowie, and I thought of her immediately when I learned of his death. She was a fan of ‘The Addams Family’, even naming her child Wednesday and used a modified child coffin as a baby crib. She later left Coach House Gifts to manage Victoria’s Secret where she tried to recruit me to be a stock boy and even offered a raise, but good ol’ BaptistGeeding just couldn’t do it, I feared the girls on the HSU campus would think I was a perv. Maybe I was, but I didn’t want them to think that, and my dating scene was already hurting pretty bad in the first place.
I recently bought one of those telescoping electric chainsaws to trim the trees. The box it came in was too big to fit in the recycling bin, but instead of cutting it up with a knife, I used my new electric chainsaw pole to cut it in pieces to fit in the bin.
I’m slowly becoming Mr. Mom. I the one in the family that cleans the bathrooms and does the laundry, and I also do my fair share of the cooking and the dishes. Yesterday I sewed a pair of WifeGeeding’s pants together where the split in the seam. And until now, I can’t believe I haven’t joked with her one bit that her rear was expanding.
I’m surprised the Texas Lottery is still around with conservatives solidly in control of the state government as long as they’ve been. They often claim it’s like a tax on the poor, immoral, and funds aren’t really going where they need to be going. At least, that’s what I hear.
If I ever won the lottery, I’d do whatever I could in my power to not let a soul know about it. If I were required to be in a press conference, I’d disguise myself to the best of my ability, change my voice, and speak with an accent. If I couldn’t wear a Chewbacca costume to the press conference, I’m going drag to the Nth degree.
I usually don’t post any newspaper opinion pieces, but one of Ted Cruz’s former law professors wrote about Cruz’s view of “original meaning” and “living Constitution” interpretations and how it applies to a “natural born citizen”. It’s always been my view, in order to be eligible for president, one would need to be born on U.S. soil. I would prefer that would include children born on a U.S. military base located in another country, but I recently found out they aren’t considered U.S. soil (see ‘Citizenship’) due to extraterritoriality. Basically, the country hosting the base agrees their laws don’t apply on the base, but the base is still on their land. Personally, I don’t like it. It doesn’t seem fair for someone serving their country to have their child disqualified because of their deployment or assignment. We’re still a young country, but this stuff should be clearly defined without any ambiguity for the highest office in the land. If John McCain (born at Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Panama Canal Zone) or Barry Goldwater (born in the Arizona Territory which would then become a state) would have won, perhaps it could have all been settled.
Random tidbit from Peter King’s MMQB – The Bengals last won a playoff game in 1990. Here’s how long ago that was: The playoff win was over the Houston Oilers. The next week, in Los Angeles, Bo Jackson suffered a hip injury that ended his football career and led to the end of his athletic career.
Membership includes access to the Cowboys Fit club, where the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders will train.
A family membership costs a one-time fee of $4,500 plus $350 per month.
The club has views from a terrace overlooking the team’s outdoor fields so members can watch practices. The opposite side offers views at the 50-yard line of the indoor stadium.
The club also offers multiple dining options, private and corporate meeting space, a private rooftop swimming pool and billiards tables.
The total number of memberships will be limited to 700 to 800.
Texas falls to 43 in national education ranking – Texas is now ranked 43rd in the nation, falling from 39th last year in the annual “Quality Counts” report from national education publication Education Week.
All The Money In The World, In A Single Chart – A recent chart from The Money Project attempts to visualize all of the money in the world, from Bitcoin to the mind-bogglingly massive derivatives market, and compares them by size. Each small square on the chart represents $100 billion.
The new trailer for the next season of Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ is intense and I wouldn’t watch it at work.
I was surprised to learn that Chet Garner, the host of PBS’s ‘The Day Tripper‘, graduated first in his class at Baylor Law School. He’s also a University of Texas film school graduate.
ESPN’s ‘Megacast’ is going to show tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship game in 14 ways – some notables
Homer Telecast (ESPNU): An alternate version of the traditional game telecast — Joe Tessitore will host the interplay between Clemson’s all-time leading passer Tajh Boyd and former Alabama center and three-time national champion Barrett Jones as they serve as quasi-‘game analysts’ with a decidedly partisan view towards their alma maters. Other partisan guests and ESPN personalities will join the commentary which will be conducted primarily from field level.
Sounds of the Game (ESPN Classic and ESPN3): ESPN’s game telecast — sans commentators — will be amplified with dozens of microphones positioned throughout the stadium in addition to the public address announcer and referee calls to recreate the in-stadium fan experience of being seated at the game. This will include full coverage of the pregame on-field entertainment and halftime band performances.
Mock Replay Booth (ESPN3): An authentic recreation of the replay booth experience will give an inside look at the review process in which replay officials review every play of the game, determine which plays are subject to further review and then what happens during an official replay stoppage.
Pylon Cam (ESPN3): A continuous stream of the cameras being fed from the eight pylons surrounding the field, both at the goal lines and for the first time from the backlines of the end zones.
Spider Cam (ESPN3): A continuous feed of the camera that maneuvers above the field of play and often provides a behind-the-offense look at the game action. Taco Bell Student Section (ESPN3): Cameras in the Taco Bell student sections — focusing on students, bands, mascots and cheerleaders of each team — to showcase how the most enthusiastic fans in the building are reacting with every play.
I haven’t eaten at our local Chicken Express in several months, but my experience yesterday lead me to believe they had a change in ownership, which I later confirmed:
New staff and decorations
A rewards program that requires use of a touch screen device
They no longer bring food to you, they now call your ticket number and you have to pick it up at the counter. They seemed annoyed when we didn’t hear our order number, but for the last decade, we were used to having our order brought to our table.
They now print Bible verses on the bottom of the receipt. The cynic in me doesn’t think this is a noble way to spread the Gospel or proclaim their love for Christ. Instead, it feels a bit vain and insincere to promote a business using one’s faith.
The longtime Baptist music director at WifeGeeding’s childhood church, a senior citizen with grandkids, got busted soliciting a prostitute. It was one of those in which the person finds out their life as they know it comes crashing down as the police appear in the hotel room. I suspect the church will come down hard on him, as they should. But since he will now be at the lowest point in his life, I hope they offer some sort of counseling and support. Well, not support in that he was doing something right, but to assist him to get the help that he needs and repair his life.
There’s huge Indian population in Las Colinas, where our church is located. In an effort to reach out to them, our church is now allowing a congregation of Christian Indians to start their own church in our building. We both hold worship service at the same time, but they are in another area, and I don’t think they are the same denomination.
GIF – So that’s how they print stuff on the outside of bowls.
I was quite interested in that Seattle/Minnesota playoff game yesterday because of the subzero temperature, and I got quite the kick out of 88-year-old former Vikings coach wearing short sleeves for the coin toss. That reminded me a recent article I read by longtime Dallas Cowboys radio sideline reporter Kristi Scales about some tricks players use to stay warm, here are some highlights:
Vaseline/Petroleum Jelly: this is something NFL players use a lot. When you see players in cold games going sleeveless and looking all macho, there’s a good chance they’re slathered-up with Vaseline on their arms. It definitely helps keep you warm. It’s also excellent to use on your face/ears/neck if those areas are exposed.
Bread Bags: Former Cowboys kicker Billy Cundiff told me that, growing up in Iowa, Billy learned to wear bread bags over his feet for cold weather games. Put them in between your layers of socks and pull them up past your ankles/lower calf…the same way you wear a tube sock. It keeps your feet dry.
Wear the latex gloves underneath your regular gloves, as if the latex gloves were glove liners. It’s an extra layer of protection for your hands.
Lambeau Field fans: They put the piece of cardboard below their feet. In other words, while they were sitting in their seats at the stadium, instead of the bottom of their boots/shoes being on the cold concrete, they was a layer of cardboard between the feet and the cardboard.
Mike Zimmer was the Cowboys defensive coordinator when they botched a field goal attempt in Bill Parcells last game, a Wildcard playoff game, against the Seahawks. Yesterday, Zimmer had to watch as head coach as his team botch a field goal in a Wildcard playoff game to Seattle.
I ordered a BLT the other day and to my surprise the order came out wrong, it had a pickle on it. I’m not a fan of the pickle, and what’s worst, it was the kind of pickle that had a lot of pickle juice with it that soaked into the bread. Silly me, but I thought a BLT only included bacon, lettuce, and tomato between two slices of bread.
Before I throw out a bad sock, I’ll wash it one more time and then use it as a rag to clean the bathroom, and then toss it.
I looked up an item on the Target website recently and was impressed that it told me it was in stock at our local store and what specific aisle it was on.
I watched Train Wreck over the weekend. In one part, Tony Romo was giving a speech and New York Knick Amar’e Stoudemire yelled “Dallas sucks.” What’s funny is that Stoudemire later played for the Dallas Mavericks.
This is what country music has become. George Strait is rolling over in his grave. (Yes, I know he’s not dead, that’s the joke.)
Harrison Ford Just Became The Highest-Grossing Actor In Hollywood – So long, Samuel L. Jackson. – According to Box Office Mojo, Ford’s career has generated $4.7 billion across 41 film roles. That averages out to about $115 million per movie, though “The Force Awakens” saw him grossing $781.1 million alone. Samuel L. Jackson is still in second place, having grossed $4.6 billion across 68 movies.
115 years ago yesterday (and there’s even a picture of it) – A 100-foot drilling derrick named at Spindletop near the town of Beaumont, Texas produced a roaring gusher of black crude oil – the first major oil discovery in the United States.
Until last night, I had no idea that Goldie Hawn was an Academy Award winner. I also thought Kurt Russell was older than her, but she beats him by six years. She’s 70 and he’s 64.
Sylvester Stallone’s fellow actors sure did look really happy for him at the Golden Globes last night. He turns 70 in July. The best story I heard him tell was his last appearance on Letterman. He spoke about attending his first award ceremony and John Wayne came over to introduce himself and how much that meant to him. From that moment, he thought he’d do the same to any other up-and-coming actor. At his last celebrity event, he went out of his way to introduce himself to one such person who totally brushed him off. He then playfully complained to Dave that these young kids have no respect.
