My College Football Division 1-A Playoff System

Last week I promised my system for determining division 1-A’s MNC*.

The most important part of my system is that I refuse use the TLA’s to differentiate between division I footballs two subcategories. Growing up it was always 1-A and 1-AA. The day I refer to them as FCS and FBS is the day I take a cheese grater to my face and jump in the Pacific Ocean.

Now that that business is settled, I believe i touched on this during last weeks blog, but in case I didn’t. I can’t stress enough that this is MY system, and I’m not about being fair or even making sense, this is the system that I would get the most enjoyment out of and makes the most sense to me. Don’t like it? Email me, tweet me, the address should be over there ----->

I’ll pretend like your criticisms don’t bother me and then I’ll cry myself to sleep that night, sounds like fun huh?

In all seriousness, I wouldn’t mind hearing your system. So again, shoot me an email ---->
Or a tweet ----->

Now to my system. My system is a twelve team playoff bracket with the top four teams getting a first round bye. These teams are made up of four of the six teams that have a conference championship. Those conferences include:

• ACC
• Big Ten
• C-USA
• MAC
• Pac 12
• SEC

Here are my reasons for this stance:

• Conference Championships are awesome, don’t like the fact that you conference doesn’t get a first round bye? Add more teams and have a conference championship......you ninnies

• I like the idea that the conference championships would act as a sort of first round playoff game

• Conferences that have a championship have to play an extra game that other conferences do not, so I think it is only fair we reward those teams with one fewer game to make things even.

• Teams that don’t have a conference championship could play on the same weekend that other conferences are playing their conference championships. I like that idea. The only problem with that is that two conferences (usually the MAC and C-USA) would be left out of the top four due to the weakness of their conference. I know that doesn’t seem fair but fill your conference with something other than Akrons, directional Michigan Schools and maybe i’d be more merciful. Also, in most peoples scenarios (including the current model now used by the BCS) they are left completely out in the cold, so I’m doing them a favor by including them at all. You’re welcome.

Idealy it would be nice to have eight conferences of sixteen teams, or something so no byes are needed, that would require some conference realignment, I’ve thought about doing that for another blog, but it would be a real time sink, so no promises.

I’m also torn between the awesomeness that is conference championships and conferences that can actually play all of the teams in their conference every year (the way the Big 12 is now). To me it seems silly to have teams in your conference that you play in two year on, two year off cycles, or longer in some cases.

Aside from the four conferences with the bye that leaves 7 conferences plus the independents. Therefore I give one slot each to each conference champion. I feel it’s important you win your conference in order to win the MNC, that’s just how I feel. Don’t like it? Write your own blog :-)

That leaves one spot left. A spot I had a hard time deciding on. On the one hand you have the four independents, however there are only four of them, if their were more I might think about giving an automatic spot, but there aren’t, so they have to be ranked highly enough (perhaps in the top 10) or have a decent enough record. You indy’s don’t like it? Join one of the conferences that needs a few extra teams to hold a conference championship so they’re eligible for one of those nifty top four seeds.

Even better yet, be selected or not by a committee of experts whose sole job is selecting the 12th spot or a wild card team. Yeah, I like that committee idea.***

Yes, I said wild card team, I didn’t like that idea either, especially since I just got done saying how important conference championships are. As things are now I don’t see a way around it.

Next unique aspect of my playoff is that reseeding will take place after each round, meaning that in each round the lowest seeds will be matched against the highest seeds. This will increase the likelihood that the two best teams meet in the championship. I know the NFL does this with their first round, but they still split their brackets by conference and only reseed for the first round I believe, mine is the only system I know of that would be a complete reseed system.

Last major unique thingy about my system is that the first two rounds will be played at the higher rated teams home stadium. This was just nixed by the Big Ten which originally suggested something similar for the future four team playoff. I liked the idea. I like the idea of a team from the south having to come up north in the middle of December and playing somewhere really, really cold. This instead of northern teams always having to travel south for their bowl game as it has been forever.

The so called ‘final four’ will take place at traditional BCS bowls, rotating between them as to who hosts the championship. Those bowls being the Orange, Sugar and Rose. Screw you Fiesta bowl, you corrupt bastards you! You’ve lost your chance.  

I’m not entirely against some further mix-match of bowls to home games, perhaps the first round could be bowls as well, again rewarding the top four seeds with a home game.....but this blog is due so no more time to ponder....

Now onto the fun part, using my system, what would last year have looked liked? First, seeding the teams, we’ll start with the infamous top four seeds, pulled from the conferences having a championship.

Seed Team Pre-Bowl Record in 2011/ Notes
1. LSU 12-0 / Easy-peesy pick, only undefeated team, and out of the rugged SEC to boot.

2. Oregon 11-2 / Picked them over Wisconsin as they played a more courageous Non-conference schedule including a loss to #1 seed LSU in the first week of the season.

3. Wisconsin 11-2 / See above, plus they totally aren’t Clemson....

4. Clemson 10-3 / Worst record, plus I hate them, they wreck havoc on my family college pick’em every week of every year with their Jeckl and Hydeness, but they are better conference champs than the C-USA offerening or the MAC,..although I would have been curious to see Southern Miss take a shot at them...


So those are our top four seeds, again, pulled from the conferences that have a championship.

Onto the teams in the first round, without the bye.

Seed Team Pre-Bowl Record in 2011/ Notes
5. Alabama 11-1 / Alabama sneaks into the only wild card spot with their only loss coming to #1 Seed LSU. Had somebody in the independent ranks been worth a poop though, they’d have been on the outside looking in...

6. Oklahoma State 11-1 / Best record of the remaining conference champs, prolly would have been involved in the championship last year had they used any sensible system of a four team or even a plus one playoff.

7. TCU 10-2 / Next year they’re off the the Big 12 but last year they were still in the Mountain West conference and their Rose Bowl appearance and win against Wisconsin in 2010 proves to me they can hang with the big boys.

8. Southern Miss 11-2 / Always a favorite of mine (other than Nebraska) they take on the big boys and normally scare the be-jesus out of them, and sometimes beat them. That’s why I’m a little lot leary about Nebraska playing them the first game of the season next year....yikes,...anyways, they upset up until that point undefeated Houston in the C-USA championship, and like I said I’d be curious to see how S.Miss would have matched up against Clemson,...the more I think about it, the more I’m closer to giving them that 4th seed.....

9. Arkansas State 10-2 / Another scary non-conference opponent for Nebraska next year, getting the slight edge over N.Illinois

10. N.Illinois 10-3 / Biggest thing the Huskies had going for them is that they’re not in the Big East, which I can’t even bring myself to watch. Which is saying something...considering we are talking about College football here.....

11. Cincinnati 10-2 / As much as I can’t stand watching the Big East, I still think the Bearcats are better than.....

12. Louisiana Tech 8-4 / Who finished with the worst record of any conference champ and they are coming out of the cupcake filled Sun Belt conference.

Those are the seeds. Now with the aid of a neat site I found called What If Sports I’ll use that to trace through my hypothetical playoff from last year.

The site uses stats, formulas, algorythms and a bunch of other stuff I don’t understand to generate realistic results in hypothetical match-ups, complete with stats and stuff, very cool...so you could say, match up the 1994 Nebraska team with the 1995 Nebraska team, or whatever your heart desires...again,....very cool.

On to the first round:

To no ones surprise 5th seed Alabama throttles 12th seed La. Tech 38-17.

6th seed Okie State takes down 9th seed Cincy from the Big (L)East 48-27.

TCU (7th seed) wins a high scoring game with 10th seed and MAC champ N. Illinois 49-31.

In the last match up of the first round, my dark horse S.Miss team falls in a slight suprise to 9th seed Arkansas State 20-17.

So we have the following four seeds advancing:

• 5th seed Alabama
• 6th seed Okie State
• 7th seed TCU
• and 9th seed Arkansas State

Making the 2nd round feature:

• #1 LSU vs #9 Arkansas State
• #2 Oregon vs #7 TCU
• #3 Wisky vs #6 Okie State
• and #4 Clemson vs #5 Alabama

The results from the second round hold no huge shockers, but I’m mildly surprised LSU only managed to squeak by ASU 20-17, and Wisky managed to outscore Okie State 56-42.

Other scores from round two:

• #2 Oregon 27-17 over #7 TCU
• and #5 Alabama knocking off #4 Clemson 30-6

We’re now down to the ‘final four’ and the games that are associated with existing bowls. After re-seeding again we end up with the following match-ups:

• #1 LSU vs #5 Alabama, a match up that took place in last years actual national championship bore fest.
• and #2 Oregon vs #3 Wisky another actual match up from last bowl season, with Oregon winning.

As I mentioned earlier my original idea was to rotate the bowls, but seeing as how Oregon and Wisky are a traditional Pac 12/Big Ten Rose Bowl match up we’ll put them there. And the SEC is a Sugar Bowl conference (if I remember right), so we’ll put them there, leaving the MNC to be the Orange Bowl. Maybe I should make some rule that if a traditional bowl match up occurs the teams will go to their traditional bowl,...or something,....haven’t decided....too late now...


In the Sugar Bowl Alabama all but shuts down LSU just like in the real life matchup 38-3, but the Rose takes a different turn than the real thing and Wisconsin prevails.

Now are our National Championship. A show down in the Orange Bowl,.....finally a playoff where a true champion can be determined!

…....Alabama thrashes Wisky 45-13..... ......


So even though I designed a playoff system specifically to my tastes, and Alabama only got in because their weren’t any good independent teams we still wound up with the same MNC.

Also, we ended up having what was probably an even more mis-matched national championship...all under scoring my point from last week, that the national championship is stupid, and you can’t prevent a stinker from occurring in the championship game regardless of the system.

Therefore,...I say again....teams should just win their games and not worry about whatever post-season tweak the rich guys are trying this year......now if you don’t mind the “Committee***” has to meet to prevent this 45-13 disaster from happening again next year....surely SOMETHING can be figured out...maybe if we ju-......

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* remember that acronym? Awww...shucks...well thanks for trying...
** Three.Letter.Acronyms
*** Oh, and by committee I mean me.......and only me

Mini-Blog: House Sitting

I didn’t get my blog posted on Wednesday as promised, posting it a day late instead. I hate to disappoint all three of my readers like that, so in hopes of making up for it I present to you a mini blog. At least I hope it stays “mini”. No promises though.

My parents spent the week on vacation, they asked me to check on the house a couple times during the week. These very difficult duties included:

1. Gathering the mail and newspapers

2. Making sure the toilet wasn’t running

3. Checking on the baby birds to see if they had grown up and left their nest in the grill of an old grain truck on my parents’ property

4. Making sure the basement wasn’t flooded

After a normal report via text message Tuesday, I became bored and decided to spice up Thursday’s report:

Me: I grabbed your mail and newspapers, opened them and flushed them down the toilet, thus clogging it, so it’s still running. Therefore the basement is no longer dry. Also, I brought all the baby birds in the house so they’ll poop on everything. You are welcome.

Me: Oh, I almost forgot. I also upper decked your other toilet, turned on all the lights, peed on your bed, and started a small fire in your office.

Mom: Thanks for handling everything for us. You must be exhausted!

Obligatory College Football Playoff Blog

As you may well know, anyone who has a blog and even thinks about sports is legally required to offer their take on playoffs at the highest level of college football.

Failure to do so results in the revocation of your bloggers of america union card and a poke in the arm with a sharpened stick. To avoid such a horrible fate I’m going to provide my take now and also file all the necessary paper as proof of doing so.

Before we continue I must state something that will come as a shock to just about everyone, sports fans and non sports fans alike. The National Championship is stupid.

There.

I said it.

Light your torches, find your pitchforks and “come at me bro”.

Don’t get me wrong. Shiny crystal trophies are nice, but we’re talking about something that is completely out of your team's control. Something that is debated so much and has been  for so long, that when discussed in written form an acronym is used to describe it. “MNC” which stands for Mythical National Champion/Championship. Sounds like fun doesn’t it?*

That’s why i don’t get my undies in a bunch like my fellow Nebraska fans when the topic of Penn State in 94ish (if my memory is correct) or Michigan in 97 should get part of that that year’s “MNC”. I don’t care. We won all our games those years and that to me is awesome enough. So, if Michigan or Penn State want to put that year in big letters on their stadium somewhere under “National Champions”, good for them. I’ll still sleep tonight. They did everything they were supposed to, too. They won all of their games.

And don’t even get me started on teams that lose one or two games and still claim the MNC, lame. I’d argue those years shouldn’t even have a MNC. Especially when a two loss team claims it....ick.

Ever since I was old enough to listen to the talking heads on Saturday mornings debate which team really was the best in the nation, I began to grow more and more sick of the topic. To me, especially at that time, it was a bigger deal to beat Oklahoma, win the Big Eight conference, and go to the Orange Bowl. I liked this for several reasons.

• First, it didn’t matter if you were undefeated or not, didn’t matter if you stubbed your toe week two against someone and tarnished your undefeated season, you could always win the conference and go to the Orange Bowl.
• The conference rankings were never based on what some sportswriter in some town far away who never saw a Nebraska game thought of how good Nebraska was. It was all about wins and losses, head to head match-ups, and in rare cases tie-breakers.
• Same deal with the Coaches rankings....
• I always felt like it was our own little mini-world of college football. The Orange Bowl was our bowl, our championship...and even though we lost to a Florida team every year, it was still somehow special.

Another dirty little secret? Playoffs rarely determine who the best team is, especially in a single elimination tournament. Are you gonna try and tell me that the 9-7 New York Giants were really the best team in the NFL last year because they won the Super Bowl** ? The same Giants that at one point lost five out of six of their games including four games in a row? The same team that lost to the Washington Redskins twice? Nuh-uh sorry.

Or what about UConn who won the National Championship in basketball a few years back after finishing NINTH in their conference.....in short, playoffs don’t determine who the best team is, only who is on a roll at the end of the season.

To put it in yet another way, Bertrand Russell’s quote about war comes to mind; “War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

So I think of playoffs like this “Playoffs don’t determine who is best, only who is left”

All of this comes about as I write this, because the NCAA is considering a four team playoff at the end of the regular season. At first I was excited about this. I know, I know, I just got done griping about how playoffs don’t determine a champion, and I stand by that, they don’t. However, playoffs have one really important factor in their corner.....playoffs = more football, and I can’t ever have enough football.

Then I heard the local radio guys debating how those four teams would be determined and realized that a four team playoff wouldn’t put an end to the constant debate about “Who is #1” it only pushes the problem a tiny bit farther down the chain.

So, why did the old rich white guys in charge of college football's highest level finally change their tune?

• Well last year’s MNC featured a rematch of two teams from the same division of the same conference.
• A conference that has now had a team win the “National Championship” five years in a row. So no matter who won, it would be from the same conference....again.
• The game itself a rematch of a field goal miss/make fest that ended in a 9-6 overtime ‘thriller’.**
• It didn’t help that the game was hyped for months beforehand either....so, people were tired of hearing about the FIRST game even before it was played,...let alone the rematch in the MNC

All of this added up to less than stellar ratings for a college football MNC, which meant the fat cats finally got hit somewhere where they actually cared about,...the wallet.

So, now they are meeting in high rise offices, late into the night scrambling to find the perfect formula. Unfortunately, there isn’t one.

I’d argue that although the MNC this year sucked. Both as a match up and a game itself, I still have to admit that those were indeed probably the two best teams in the country. No combination of fancy computer formulas, voters, even playoffs can prevent a championship stinker once in awhile. How many Super Bowls can you remember that weren’t all that competitive? Had teams you didn’t care about?  Where the commercials were just ‘meh’?

What to do then? Well, in next week’s blog, I will detail my design for College football’s postseason. Keep in mind I don’t want to, but it’s another blog requirement, and I really don’t want to be poked with a sharp stick.

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* No

**That was the game where your girlfriend shushed everyone during the commercials so she could hear what the talking baby said, then blabbed loudly during the actual game. Seriously dude, did you HAVE to bring her?

*** I fell asleep during the first quarter

How Car Insurance Makes Me Feel Old

This one requires a long walk folks, so if you’re up to it, grab my automated nacho shoveling device (hand) and join me on a journey to the land of um...feel,..um,....old-dom.

I find the overly competitiveness of car insurance companies to be quite comical. I’m reminded of this almost constantly, I’d venture to guesstimate that 2/3rds of all ads I currently see have to do with car insurance. On nearly every billboard, tv commercial, radio commercial, port-a-jon, not to mention the web, you are constantly being inundated with ads for car insurance.

You have the Geico Gecko, Cavemen, Progressives quarky “Flo”, State Farm, Farmers, All-State (with that black guy,...can’t think of his name), Esurance and even that little general guy . That little general guy seems kinda iffy, kinda scammy but that’s a topic for another day....

Those are just the companies I can name off the top of my head. YES, I’ve been so repetitively exposed to car insurance ads that I can name SEVEN of them off the top of my head, and even several of the mascots.

I find this level of over advertising funny in its specificness. It’s not insurance, it’s not cars, it’s specifically car insurance. And they are all out to save you oh-so-much money, or so they claim.

The best way I can explain why this specificness is so funny to me would be to say, imagine a world where dozens of giant companies existed that only sold salad forks. Not spoons, not knifes, not even forks in general, but specifically SALAD FORKS. Now imagine every advertisement you see pertains to how much money you could save per year on salad forks. That’s kinda how I see them.

Still with me? Still holding onto my nacho consumption aid (hand) ? Good.

All of this overly competitive advertising leads me to think of the only other example of completely oversaturated and seemingly unnecessary advertising in my life. The old long distance commercials. I can still hear the pitch echoing through the empty cavern that is my brain, “Just dial down the center! 1-800-C-O-L-L-E-C-T”

And now time for another jump, this old ad war makes me realize that kids today have no idea what calling collect means. Most live without landlines, and have no concept of what it was like living with a non cell phone in the house. To them, phone = cellphone, period.

They have no concept of local vs long distance, can’t fathom being tethered to not only the house you are in with your phone, but in my case, the hallway of said home. Like a dog on a chain in the backyard. You could only go as far as your curly plastic leash would let you.

Long distance was really damn important too:

Person A: I was attacked by a polar bear with laser beams for eyes and chain saws for arms! I need a tourniquet really bad could you ple-

Person B: (Politely covering the receiver of the phone*) It’s my grandma, long distance...

Person A: Oh, I’m SOOO SORRY!! Tell her I said ‘HI’

Then everyone would sit around bleeding to death from their polar bear related wounds and watch in awe as someone talked to someone else literally all the way OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS! Isn’t technology amazing?

Long distance was so important that it didn’t merely invade tv (before the days of the dvr so you couldn’t fast forward through the commercials!**), radio, billboards, busses, everywhere. These companies would even call you directly. They would normally call during dinner right after your mouth was full of celery and peanut butter.

Janet: Hi, I’m Janet***, calling from MCI, my job is to call people all over the U.S and get yelled at and pray that one out of every 100 yell fests ends in a sale so I can make an extra 25 cents this hour, how are you this evening sir? Are you happy with your current long distance provider?

You: (Mouth full of celeray and peanut butter) mmmmrgggrrmmmcrunchmmrrmmggnocalllistmggrm

Janet: Great! you’re all signed up for the ‘Eiffel Tower Plan’ it will cost twice as much as your current plan but you can now call Southern France for only 30 cents a minute!

Janet: (Forgetting to hang up the phone) HEY GUYS I GOT A SALE!!! I REALLY GOT A SALE!!

Then you would hang up and your wife or husband would yell at you for changing your family's long distance plan for the fourth time that week.

I know what you’re thinking,....but Grandpa Smitty, why didn’t you just ignore the phone call?

Oh you silly little humanling...you couldn’t NOT answer the phone! You just couldn’t, and I never knew why...I never got the chance. It could be the President or the Pope (prolly calling about your current long distance plan) or something you had no idea, and only ONE ringtone...that you couldn’t change....

I never risked not answering the phone, the consequences would be too dire. The only chance I would get would be when I was home alone, and it would most likely be my mom who, if I didn’t answer would be in a panic, because “WHY DIDN'T YOU ANSWER THE PHONE?, you can’t JUST NOT ANSWER THE PHONE!”

Not only did you not know who the phone call was from, but you didn’t know who it was FOR either. Some fancier kids had a magical device called “Caller ID” but we didn’t. Caller IDs were for pussies.

So if the call wasn’t for you# you had to perform the ‘call for someone else ritual’. You either had to just leave the phone there. This would leave the person on the other end dangling like a slinky hanging from the ceiling. Then you would frantically search the house for the person the caller wanted to speak with. The other option would be to just stand there and yell (because you were tethered there remember?) “MOM!!! PHONE!!!!” and hope they heard you.

I forgot to mention you had to say ‘May I ask who is calling’ and if you didn’t the person you finally found hiding in the attic would sigh and say, “Why didn’t you ask who is calling?!”

If the person wasn’t there another ritual began, you had to say “I’m sorry he/she can’t come to the phone right now can I take a message?”

You had to say it like that otherwise this person would know you were home alone and they would come over and eat you or something...

Then you would pretend to take their message and forget about the phone call entirely until your mom or dad got another call from the person who was now angry. And then you would get grounded/yelled at. Good times.

If no one was home a device with a little midget cassette## in it would save useless rambling messages on a strip of magnetic tape. Then everyone would stand around the machine and try to guess who called.

Family Member One: “That sounds like our neighbor down the street....”
Family Member Two: “No, no that was totally Mr. Blahblah....”
Family Member Three: “Weren’t you expecting a call from Mr. Soandso?”

No definitive answer would come so the only sensible action would be to call every suspect and leave messages on their machines thus spreading the virus to everyone.....in case you hadn’t guessed, answering machines were awesome.

If the person you were trying to call didn’t have an answering machine the phone would just ring and ring forever until you hung up. The person you called would never know you called. No one could immediately contact anyone who say, ventured out to buy groceries. Even scarier, if they didn’t have an answering machine no one knew where they were,....at all! (I just blew your mind didn’t I?)

Without an answering machine that person might as well have been on Mars.

FBI: I’m sorry ma’am, we can’t find your father

Poor Woman: Oh no! Why not!

FBI: He doesn’t have an answering machine,....

Everyone:

FBI: He could literally be ANYWHERE

So you would just keep calling them, every 15 minutes and hope they hadn’t died. Why 15 minutes? Because that’s just what you DID, kinda like the reason you always had to answer the phone.

You would give it a month or so before you really started to worry.

Another fun game I liked to call ‘Phone Chicken’ was when everyone in the house heard the phone ring and everyone assumed everyone else was going to get it. With each passing ring the tension rose until either everyone answered the phone at the same time or no one answered resulting in the following argument:

    Family Member A: HOW COULD YOU NOT ANSWER THE PHONE!!!???
    Family Member B: You were closer!
    Family Member C: Well I just figured it was Mr. Whoever, he usually calls this time of day...
    Family Member A: Well @#$%! lets go check the answering machine....

And so we come to the end of our journey, maybe you forgot where we started, or don’t really know how you ended up here, but now you hopefully have a better idea of why everytime I see a car insurance commercial I feel old.

I make the quick jump from car insurance to feeling old, because no one under the age of 10 will know the true importance of a long distance call, or any of the lost rituals involved with the infamous “Home Phone”.

But at what point is the cut off? This is a fun game, sit around a table with a group of people of all ages, a cell phone starts to ring, the older phone vets will all become tense,...memories of ‘Phone Chicken’ still aching in their bones, the younger ones have no problem letting it go to voicemail......the vets thinking ‘MY GOD! ISN’T YOUR KID GONNA ANSWER HER PHONE! HOW CAN SHE NOT ANSWER IT!!!???’


* = YAH! I KNOW! The phone went all the way from your ear to your mouth! Huge!
** = Simply barbaric huh? And yet I survived...
*** = "Ms. Jackson if you’re nasty",...yep a Janet Jackson reference no one will get,...good for me...
# = everyone in the house shared the SAME phone! Is your mind blown yet?
## = sorry grandkids all teach you about cassettes in another blog....

Sports, Cheese, Bullet Points and Whine

My brothers fiance asked me recently whatever happened to my blog. This was a good question but it was asked on Facebook and I deleted my account shortly thereafter.

I feel that it was a good enough question to answer and in the process could perhaps kick start my blog again.

Another aspect I liked about her question was that I could use one of my nerdly favorite um...thingys..struggling to find the word at the moment...but that “thingy” is a bulleted list.

Reasons my blog went derelict for 4ish months:

• Lack of motivation/time. Specifically the alignment of having both time available and the motivation to write at the same time just never seemed to occur.
• Lack of internet access. I haven’t had internet access for some time and I got tired of making arrangements to post blogs from other places. I have a plan now though...

There are more than likely more reasons, but three is a good number. If you only have two bullet points why bother..Am-I-rite? ...but three...well that just looks snazzy. Oh! Thought of another one....

• I said from the get go that the blogging had to remain fun for me to continue and limiting myself to non-sports related stuff made it more of a chore. I got caught up in trying to write what I thought people would like instead of what I wanted to write, the end result being nothing got written at all, which in my opinion is worse.

(whew! that was a good one...yay bullets! )

So from now on I will blog, I will blog about what I want to write about. If me writing at length about how when putting together an offense in football I prefer a tall, pocket passing style quarterback, bores you....well....tough titties for you. I’ll just email you the next time I slip on a banana peel and fall down a flight of stairs and decide to blog about it.

So stay tuned folks, I plan on posting something every Wednesday (at least that’s my goal) evening and you can thank Brittany for that.