Friday, December 7, 2018

Briefly. 

Not-so-happy Pearl Harbor Day.

Trivia #1: What was Winston Churchill’s full name?

Trivia #2: Who was the last non-quarterback to win NFL MVP? Shaun Alexander, Adrian Peterson, Ray Lewis, LaDainian Tomlinson, Barry Sanders, Kahil Mack

Trivia #3: Who is the only player enshrined in the NFL HOF and in the CFL HOF? Fred Biletnikoff, Warren Moon, Joe Theismann, Doug Flutie, Joe Montana

Welcome back Nathan Eovaldi. I don’t care whether the Sox do anything else this off-season, keeping Nathan was key. I don’t care whether he starts or closes. He’s back!

Last Friday Anchorage, AK experienced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. DYK, Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined. 

You can buy John Henry’s Boca Raton mansion for a cool $25M. 

Tom Brady is 79-19 against the AFC East, losing 10 of those to the Dolphins. Using a term my brother likes, I think the Pats crush on Sunday. 

I called out Mookie Betts last week for what a phenomenal year he has had. A friend informed me that he also bowled a perfect game in 2018. 

Baker Mayfield, welcome to the NFL. Is he as bad as he was last Sunday? Probably not. But is he good? Time will tell. 

Why isn’t a male zebra called a zebro?

Quote of the week: “Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.” – from a fortune cookie I got recently. 

Granted Green Bay is having a lousy season but Mike McCarthy was not the problem. Catering to the superstar (Aaron Rodgers), I guess. 

Forget that he was released by the Kansas City Chiefs, Kareem Hunt will no longer appear on the roster in Madden NFL 2019! 

This week’s sign of the apocalypse: Huffpost, a liberal news site, was lampooned after saying Christmas classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was “seriously problematic” over claims that it features sexism and bullying. Among observations made online was the suggestion that the TV classic was a story about racism and homophobia, while calling Santa Claus abusive and bigoted. 

R.I.P. – George H. W. Bush (94). A true legend.

Trivia #1 answer: What was Winston Churchill’s full name? Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.

Trivia #2: Who was the last non-quarterback to win NFL MVP? Shaun Alexander, Adrian Peterson, Ray Lewis, LaDainian Tomlinson. – Adrian Peterson

Trivia #3: Who is the only player enshrined in the NFL HOF and in the CFL HOF? Fred Biletnikoff, Warren Moon, Joe Theismann, Doug Flutie, Joe Montana – Warren Moon 

“Come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now”
 

I love you guys…

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