8 January 2008 - Elvis' Birthday and more
Today is Elvis Presley's 73rd birthday. If he is having cake or not really depends on your beliefs. As for me, if he is having cake, it will be at the Carnival Buffet at the Rio. That is IF he is having cake.
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LSU won the BCS National Championship. That makes LSU the FIRST school to win two BCS National Championships (Both times in New Orleans) since the BCS got underway back during the 1998 season. (First championship game was played on January 4, 1999. Anyone else recall who won that game?)
LSU is also the first two loss team to win the BCS. To the defense of LSU, they did lose both of their games in triple overtime. But that also means they couldn't hold on to a game when it really counted.
The final polls leave a lot up to debate. First, Georgia? Really? The team that lost to South Carolina in a close game and to Tennessee by THREE touchdowns is number 2 or 3 in that nation.
USC? Don't get me wrong, I love the Trojans and they peaked at the end. But the end of season rankings are supposed, or so I thought, reflect the body of work over the course of the season. Losing to Oregon at the time they lost is still respectable. Losing to the Trees??? WHAT??
I will even knock my own alma mater, with their four losses. Ten wins is great, having to play 14 games to get to that 10-4 record is something to respect. But in all honesty, I think the losses that Tennesee did have, to California, Florida and Alabama, were embarrassing enough to drop them to no higher than 15 in any poll. But I will agree that they should be higher than Florida, who lost to the team that put Boone, North Carolina, on the map.
You can accusing me of pandering to my audience if you want, but Kansas ONLY lost to Missouri. 12-1 record. Missouri ONLY lost to Oklahoma. 12-2 record. Both should be in the top five. Both schools, in my opinion, should be above Georgia and USC.
But I guess that is what makes college football so interesting. It gives us SOOOOOO much to talk about.
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Dixville Notch thinks about as much of Hillary Clinton as I do. Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, is a dinky, itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, little village that holds their primary at midnight. McCain won on the GOP side, Barack Obama on the Dem side. Hillary Clinton got ZERO votes.
Maybe now the tears will be real.
Did anyone else see the video of Senator Clinton holding back her tears. How this is all so personal for her, not political?
If you think it was sincere, let me know. I didn't. It seemed staged. It seemed rehearsed. If there were not so many stories out in the media about how she was trying to change her image every couple of weeks, then I might buy in to this. But I won't and can't.
Edmund Muskie was harmed by crying. Will it help or hurt Senator Clinton? Her gender might be a factor here. Though I am not sure that it should be. Wouldn't allowing her gender to be a factor marginalize her efforts?
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Duncan Hunter, the long shot Republican Congressman/Presidential Candidate (for now) went to the other dinky, itty-bitty, teeny-tiny, little village that holds their primary at midnight, Hart's Location, to campaign with the people directly.
He got ZERO votes.
That is kind of a hint, ya think?
