• Guy's Potato Chips
  
• The Royals being halfway decent
  
• Christmas variety specials, like Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, I think even Johnny Cash had one.
  
• Saturday morning cartoons. I know there are still cartoons on Saturday morning, but they are pretty much the same at the cartoons that are on every single day.
  
• Watching the Lone Ranger before church
  
• A Sunday ( Read more... )

Proper Ball Care:

• Refrain from exposure to excessive amounts of water. Water may penetrate the cover of the ball and cause the ball to become heavier.
  
  
• Do not expose to temperatures above 30°c/86°f during washing or drying.
  
  
• Do not play with a wet ball during freezing temperatures.
  
  
• Do not stand or sit on the ball. This can cause the ball ( Read more... )

Proposal: No NFL games on the Sundays before and after Thanksgiving. All 32 teams would play on Thanksgiving Day, 2 games at a time starting at 6:00 AM EST. Every three hours another game would start.The last games would end just as the stores open on Friday morning. The early games could be played in Europe and the late games in Hawaii, Japan, ( Read more... )

Even though all but one of the Week 11 games are in the book, here are the ratings through Week 10 ( Read more... )

The first time I monkeyed around with margins of victory, I was sitting in Jumpin' George Roe's seventh grade math class at West Junior High School. I wanted to prove that the Broncos were the best team in the league. Unfortunately, they weren't. I hope I'm a little more objective, thrity years later ( Read more... )

The predictive (?) powers of the power ratings ran into their version of kryptonite last week (6-7). In happier news, Tampa, Tennessee and Detroit are all flirting with being the first team to be mathematically eliminated from their division race. Tampa's Tragic Number is down to three ( Read more... )

Since this seems to be the Year of the Really Bad Teams, I was curious about the Magic/Tragic numbers. In baseball the "Magic Number" is the number wins and/or opponent losses a team needs clinch a playoff spot. "The Tragic Number", or Elimination Number is the sum of wins by the first place team and losses by the other team needed to eliminate ( Read more... )

The first surprise is that someone is actually reading these posts. Jon Baughman (friend from high school, not to be confused with JoHn Baughman, my uncle) correctly pointed out that I had wrong matchups for the two games the ratings predicted wrong ( Read more... )

Rising from the ashes of a fried hard drive comes....Week 6 Power Ratings ( Read more... )

The predictive power(s?) of the power ratings returned to earth last week: 8-6. This is WAY more normal than the previous week: 13-1 ( Read more... )