The People's Team

Tonight, the New England Patriots played a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints. The game was a bust 37-27. A loss for the Pats, but a chance to weed out some of the new, inexperienced players, and give some rookies a chance to prove themselves.

I've been around football all of my life. Being from small town Texas, you can't avoid the Friday night games. No one misses them and businesses would schedule their hours so they could close early and ensure a good seat at the game. I must admit that I miss live football. I catch it on t.v., cozied up to a frosted beer mug, but it's not the same.

I always had a soft spot for pro Texas football teams. No one can deny the talent of the Dallas Cowboys in the Troy Aikman days. And Warren Moon of the Oilers was bad ass. I kept my eye on those teams throughout the years, then lost interest in football, and then after dating Rick and becoming obsessed with player stats and what it means to be a fan of such-and-such team. A year ago, I declared myself a New England Patriots fan. Not because they are the winning team, but because there is no star, no egos (the players take pay-cuts to continue playing there) and they have smart players. (yes, football players CAN be smart) Most people tend to stick with the team that they have long supported through thick and thin. That would mean that I would have to stick with Dallas after all of the drugs, Quincy Carter *shudder* and Parcels calling his players "stupid." It's embarrassing to support a team with egos that can't back-up the hype. I tried, but I'm afraid I had to turn my back.

Am I a traitor, or is it that I have based my support of the Pats on more carefully calculated information?

Or do you just not give a rats ass about football?

Just wondering.

Poop on this guy

Unfortunately, I happened to watch the Today Show the other morning when they had a less-than-intellegent guest on. Bernard Goldberg came out with a new book: 100 People Who are Screwing Up America (and Al Frankin is #37) , and his list contained all of the usual liberals who stand for "corruption" and "immoral values." Basically, this guy shot down anyone who is anti-violence, anti-Bush, has sex, and wants to save a puppy.

Allow me to go off on a tangent for a moment...

I am baffled by the whole idea that our society will shelter their kids from sex on t.v., but they buy them a violent video game, which they let them play...until they find out there is a hidden sex scene somewhere beyond the violence. WTF?

Anyway, Goldberg goes on to say that this book displays the anger and meaness in the world that he is so whole-heartedly against. To me, most of the list are people he is annoyed by or simply doesn't agree for what they stand for. Homey needs to take a chill pill...these so-called "annoying" people have no power to screw up America.

Here are some people who made the list:
(99) Rick and Kathy Hilton, because they raised Paris, who made a sex tape
Howard Stern is somewhere on the list because he makes dick jokes on the radio
(49) Ingrid Newkirk of PETA...damn her for saving the puppies
(20) Howard Dean, because he tells the truth
(16) John Edwards, because he ran with Kerry
(12) Dan Rather, because he had a whoopsie
and drum roll...
(1) Michael Moore (surprise, surprise, surprise)

I don't know any of these people, so I don't know if they are mean, and I am sure that Michael Moore is pleased as punch to be at the top of this list...his career thrives on it. None of these people are physically or psychologically hurting anyone that I know of. I'm more pained by the price of gas and oil, but no one in charge of these industries was mentioned in his book.

This fella just must have some ego to make such a list, and a lot of MEANESS to feel the need to write it.

MAN Jose?

How does one define a city?

In the Bay Area, you have San Francisco, known for the Golden Gate Bridge, beautiful views, Alcatraz, Pier 39, etc..., Berkeley is known for its hippies and political movement, and again beautiful scenery...Oakland: gangs...San Jose, well, most critics have said that SJ has been struggling to find itself. Sure there is Silicon Valley, but what do tourists get?

A recent article in Metro Magazine named San Jose, or rather MAN Jose, the bachelor capital of the world. Apparently, men out number women 3-1 here, so it should be easy for women, right? Wrong. These men, as described in the article, are the fruits of Yahoo!, Google and Adobe. Not all computer geeks are bad, but I suppose if you are accosted by five men who spend fifteen hours a day in their cubicle staring at a computer and haven't seen a woman in months, that would seem a little disheartening to me.

I avoid the night scene myself. I haven't visited a "Sausage Bar" in San Jose and don't intend to. I like avoiding those lines like: "Hey, baby, let's play house. You can be the screen door, and I'll bang you all night long."

Gross.

I'm so thankful I have "Rick" by my side. I was lucky to find such a fella. :)