hooray for the seahawks, again!

The last time that I recall the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl was 2014.

Like this time, I shared that experience with my youngest brother.

Like this time, we weren't actually together for the game.

I'd been invited, all right, to come to their game-watching party, but I had to excuse myself because the weather was again in the 40's.

No worries!

As I told them when I called the first time, watching TV remotely 'with' Christina or with the ex or my stepmom had been a thing for me for several years.

This time, I'd be 'with Tony and Laura' as we all enjoyed Super Bowl LX!

No long-winded textversations though - phone calls were better! 

See that score in the third quarter?

Just over five minutes of play left, and the New England Patriots have zip.

Seattle has 12 points, but that's not two touchdowns... it's four field goals.

As I told Tony and Laura, that's been a  game of smash, smash, smash!

Certainly wasn't a good time to be a quarterback!

That all changed in the 4th quarter.

Barner caught a pass for a Seahawks touchdown... and Hollins did the same for the Patriots just moments later!

No more scoring by either team for seven minutes.

Then the Seattle kicker came out for another 3-point field goal - good!

Both teams were really scrambling then to try to scare up some more points. 

And then, justthatfast, it happened!

During the sack, the ball popped into the air and was nabbed by Nwosu, who promptly carried it off for a touchdown!!!

How very exciting for the Seahawks!!!

But the next bit of excitement came for the Patriots.

The pass looked like it was going to be incomplete.

That is, until Stevenson managed to scoop it up at the last possible microsecond and get it in for a touchdown... holy cow!!!

Wow, what a rush of points in that fourth quarter!!!

I actually watched the entire game this time, too, instead of just tuning in for the half-time show and last two quarters.

After all, a football game takes four hours to run 60 minutes of play.

Maybe someone needs to Banana Ball that sport!

But please don't get rid of the Super Bowl 'mercials.

My very favorite was the Budweiser one with the friendship of the young colt and the fuzzy, ugly, gray baby bird.

I'd already seen it in the TV show last week, so I was watching for it.

I was watching, camera in hand, to get that magical money shot...

of the moment when the Clydesdale looks like a Pegasus...

and then the American bald eagle rises above its head...

and we realize it's the two very different friends, all grown up.

That made me cry this time, just as it had before.

Not that I'm going to go buy Budweiser... which I cannot, due to the A-fib... but I sure do appreciate their marketing department.

That commercial will make me stop and watch every time.

my money's on the Seahawks!

Hey, Dood!

The 49th Super Bowl is almost here! That means it's older than you are. You've never known a world in which the Super Bowl did not exist.

Mind-boggling, isn't it? You know what boggles my mind? Many of my students were just toddlers when the World Trade Towers were attacked in September 2001. To them, that is ancient history, as it has permanently changed the world around them. No more going early to meet arriving flights at the airport, so you can greet family and friends as they step off the plane. Now, you wait in the cell phone lot for them to call you from the baggage room.

I miss meeting them at the gate. And when I travel, I miss having people in the hall, waiting with a welcoming hug. The young people of today have no idea what that's like.

Ah, well. I'm rooting for the Seahawks this year, for the same reason I supported the Mariners last year. I like their ocean-themed name and I like their uniforms! :-)

with much love!

i want to fly like a ...falcon?

Some Football Humor

Q: What do you call 53 people sitting around a TV watching the Super Bowl?

A: The Atlanta Falcons



Q: How do you keep an Atlanta Falcon out of your yard?

A: Put up goal posts.



Q: Where do you go in Atlanta in case of a tornado?

A: The Georgia Dome -- they never have a touchdown there.



Q: What do you call an Atlanta Falcon with a Super Bowl Ring?

A: A thief



Q: What's the difference between the Atlanta Falcons and a dollar bill?

A: You can still get 4 quarters out of a dollar bill.



Q: What do the Atlanta Falcons and possums have in common?

A: Both play dead at home and get killed on the road.



Q: What do the Atlanta Falcons and Billy Graham have in common?

A: Both can make 72,000 people stand up and yell "Jesus Christ!"

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This was sent to me by my long-time friend, one-time chemistry professor, and all-the-time British man, Cedric Stratton. Enjoy!
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Two 70-year-old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives.

When it's clear that Joe is dying, Mike visits him every day.

One day Mike says, "Joe, we both loved football all our lives, and we played football on Saturdays together for so many years. Please do me one favour, when you get to Heaven, somehow you must let me know if there's football there."

Joe looks up at Mike from his death bed," Mike, you've been my best friend for many years. If it's at all possible, I'll do this favour for you."
Shortly after that, Joe sadly passes on.

At midnight a couple of nights later, Mike is awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to him, "Mike..... Mike."

"Who is it?" Asks Mike sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"

"Mike - it's me, Joe."

"You're not Joe. Joe just died!"

"I'm telling you, it's me, Joe," insists the voice.

"Joe! Where are you?"

"In heaven", replies Joe. "I have some really good news and a little bad news."

"Tell me the good news first," says Mike.

"The good news," Joe says, "is that there's football in heaven. Better yet, all of our old friends who died before us are here, too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always spring time and it never rains or snows. Our wives are there too, and young and pretty as ever! And best of all, we can play football all we want, and we never get tired!!"

That's fantastic," says Mike. "It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?"

"You're in the team for this Saturday".

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This one's for you, Frank, George and David.