Here it is, February 29th. It is bad enough that February is such a lousy month, weather-wise, but now they add another day. If I were doing it, I’d add the leap day to some nicer month, like June. Giving June 31 days every four years would be ideal and not mess things up much since that would give 4 months in a row 31 days, all of which are warm months.
Archive for February, 2008
Leap Day
Friday, February 29th, 2008Well, the Super (Boring) Bowl is over for another year—Whoopee!!
Monday, February 4th, 2008For those that looked at my blog last February 2nd (under sports), you’ll know I’m not a big fan of the Super Bowl. However, the one yesterday was interesting as a football game as it had everything: underdog vs. perfect season and a truly exciting last 10 minutes. The only drawbacks were having to have to listen to Troy Aikman for a couple of hours and the fact the NY Giants won.
First, Aikman. If I were a UCLA grad I’d be embarrassed that one of my fellow alums—assuming Troy actually graduated from college—had such a poor mastery of the English language. I’ve yet to listen to a Fox broadcast where he was doing the color where he didn’t butcher the native tongue to some extent—i.e. “we wasâ€, “they isâ€, etc. I swear the man treats the “g†in any word ending with “ing†as silent. There has to be someone out there that is better. (If I hear “I’m gonna tell ya.†one more time, I’m going to throw a shoe through the TV screen.) To think they used to make fun of poor Dizzy Dean for using “sludâ€.
As far as the Giants were concerned, I must confess to not being a fan—never was, won’t be now. As far as my rooting for a professional football team is concern, I tend to move around depending on players—primarily the QB—and coaches rather than follow a team based on geography. Over the years I’ve rooted for Graham and Brown, Namath and Ewbanks, Bradshaw and Noll, Merrideth and Landry, and, currently P Manning and Dungey. (Note: Brady and Belichick aren’t included, primarily because I’m not a Belichick fan.) Otherwise I go with a team trying to prove something. Yesterday I was hoping the Patriots would win just so they’d have the perfect season and shut up those petty ’72 Dolphins.
Seems to me that if anyone should appreciate perfection it would be that team and they should welcome any team that could duplicate their feat. Instead they gleefully break out the champagne every time a team that is approaching an undefeated season loses. It’s kind of like dancing on someone’s grave for spite. I was hoping the Pats were going to end this.
So, at any rate, the Giant fans have their win and they can now go back to where ever it is they go those years when their team finishes out of the play-offs. Also they can practice their boos for Eli and “Tom must go!!†chant for next year, because you can expect to hear both come next November.