Super Bowl

It came and and now it is gone. The Super Bowl.  I had nothing at stake this year, so even in picking the Arizona Cardinals to win, I could walk away not feeling like my team had been defeated.  I am a Seattle Seahawks fan so it was fun to just be able to watch Super Bowl. I missed last years Super Bowl because I had to work. So this year I threw a SB party and invited my family over to watch. 

It was a great game. It had that feel it wasn’t going to be a great game. Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Rothlisberger again, didn’t have a great Super Bowl, but was able to keep his team going. His best moment was the winning drive at the end of the game. The drive that drove nail into my enthusiasm because it sure looked like Arizona was going to “shock the world.” 

Kurt Warner played like a Super Bowl quarterback and I figured had Arizona won, there would have been c0-MVP’s.  Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald.  But it didn’t end that way. 

For the record, I loved the Super Bowl commercials, minus one or two “stupid” ones.  GoDaddy.com needs to clean it up. Sex might still sell some things, but sell it with some good humor and not stupidity and dullness. I don’t have any real favorites because they come at you so fast, I sometimes didn’t even remember who did the commercial. 

Well now comes the bummer part. My wife is a huge NFL football fan and really that’s the only sport she will sit and watch. So now we have zero football for several months and even though I will move onto watching golf and eventually baseball games, there is nothing like watching football, watching football with my wife, and watching a really good Super Bowl.  One side note: If Pittsburgh gets into another Super Bowl, I’m going golfing instead. 

Until next year, good luck Seahawks and let’s get back to the play-offs!

Top Ten Favorite Pasttimes

We all have a list of things we have loved doing over the years.  Whether it be going skiing once a year with friends, snow and water skiing, or barbequing in the shade of a summer eve, or visiting some historic site that brings back fond memories. Or it could be something you still do, that originated a long time ago.  Here is my short list of favorite pasttimes, some that I still love to do.

10.  Sipping ice tea under a large shade tree in someone else’s or my own backyard.

9.  Playing catch with my dad, and now my son, Isaac.

8.  Sunday drives in the country.

7.  Sleeping outside in the summer time. Especially in August when we can see meteor showers.

6.  Picking blackberries and/or huckleberries with family and friends.

5.  Taking a driving vacation.

4. Starbucks coffee, sitting in the store, or on the go. 

3.  Watching my children open up gifts

2.  Watching NFL football games with my wife. 

1.  Golfing.   I love to golf. I only get to golf once or twice a year, but its by far one of my most favorite pasttimes.

Apple Cup 2008 – COUGS WIN!!!

“This one hurts real hard,” said Huskies running back Willie Griffin. “No disrespect to them [the Cougs], but we went up against a team that everybody is saying is the worst in the nation, and you can’t pull out a win. I mean, you’ve got to look at yourself and ask yourself, ‘What are we?’ “–quoted in the Seattle Times.          My answer? Worse than the worst. 

My beloved Washington State University Cougars defeated the University of Washington Huskies 16-13 in double over time in the Apple Cup, in Pullman, Washington and I am a very happy camper. 

I had thought the Cougs were going to lose. With two minutes left, I went outside to put up more Christmas lights and when I came back in, they were in the first overtime. 

Now I find it pure fun to hear the Husky faithful whine, complain and even criticize Pullman, the Cougs, and their fans, in defeat.  Weird.  When my Cougars lose, we lick our wounds and hope for a better game next time.

Now that the Cougars have beaten the Huskies two straight years and four of the past five years, we stand as the best in the State of Washington and that’s with a 2-10 record. 

So Congrats to the Cougs and let’s do it again next year!

Front page quote

Well tonight I did it, I was the featured quote on the front page of ESPN.com. I wrote, “Does Boston feel obligated to pitch Wakefield?”  And they put it on the front page. I was referencing the ALCS game tonight where its Boston vs. Tampa Bay and Tampa Bay starting knocking the ball out of the park right away.  It even showed my picture.  I’ve cut and pasted it into my post below.  I have a little history being quoted in media. A few years ago I was quoted in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and of course in their sports page. Any way, I thought I would share my 15 minutes of fame.  I guess that’s what you call it. 

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Baseball Play-offs interrupt regular life

When I was seven years old I was watching television and a baseball game was on. One team was the Los Angeles Dodgers.  I don’t remember the other team.  From that moment on I was a Dodgers fan.  That was 41 years ago. It has been very rare that the LA Dodgers have made the play-offs but this year they won the West.  Yesterday they opened a five game series with the Chicago Cubs who were heavily favored.  But my beloved Dodgers beat them.  (Thank you LA).  I always have enjoyed rooting for the underdog as I went to a high school where we only won four football games in my four year high school span.  That would be a 4-30-1 record.  Terrible. So rooting for my team even though we would get slaughtered many a Friday night, didn’t deminish the fact that I loved football and I loved my high school football team.  I carried that over to the Washington State University Cougars who are off to easily one of the worst seasons in the past 10 years.  We had gotten used to them going to a bowl game or at least finishing at five hundred for the season. Now with a new coach, they are worse than ever.  Back to baseball.  Regardless of the outcome of this Dodgers/Cubs series, I am a Dodger faithful and have been quoted as saying that if you cut me open, I bleed Dodger Blue. 

Its football season and right now the baseball play-offs have interrupted my football watching schedule and my regular life. I live for the baseball playoffs, just like I live to golf, watch Sunday Football, play catch with my kids, and eat Italian food.  If you are into baseball, more than me, or less than me, enjoy this October.  Then, like me, after its over, we can go back to regular life.