Wow! I’m out of
practice at this. Forgive me if this
rambles worse than usual. No, I don’t
feel like talking about the Superbowl or Richard Sherman. My baseball viewing may be severely limited
this year, so my sports blogging may be limited along with it. Frankly, I’m not sure what I’m going to be
doing after I finish posting the rest of Cyber-Pulp.
Okay, a little football.
What do you all think of getting rid of the Point After Attempt? The NFL has floated this trial balloon in
front of the big game. Either take 7
points with a touchdown or take 6 and then go for 2. I’m ambivalent. I’m sure fantasy footballers are more vocal
and will have the final say. In my
opinion, you could also get rid of kick-offs too. After the last kick-off rules change, most of
them just fly into the endzone anyway.
Start the ball on the 20 after a score.
I think they were doing something like this in the Pro Bowl, not that I
could really bear to watch it. If a team
wants to retain possession after a score, put the ball on their own 40 and give
them 1 down to make 20 yards. If they don’t
make it, then the opposing team gets the ball on the other team’s 40. None of this makes any difference as long as
the game is blatantly being fixed, but that’s another post. (Don’t hold your breath waiting for it.)
May as well continue rambling. I’d like to thank 5 Guys hamburgers for an excellent pre-race
meal. They just opened their Las Cruces location the
day before right next to me. There’s
been a palatable buzz surrounding this place for months. I walked over with my dad (who lives down the
street from me) on Saturday, and we got there about five minutes before they
opened. The owner came out and greeted
us and chatted amiably until the doors opened.
Of course, he was an ex-pat New Yorker.
What would this country be without these people?
We took the burgers to my apartment (small,
bacon-cheeseburgers). One bite into the
meal, we were both unbelievably impressed.
We ate slowly, savoring each bite.
I didn’t want to finish it. I
didn’t want it to end. Afterward I said,
“I wanna go back over there and hug the owner.”
More pragmatically, Dad said, “I wanna go back over there and get
another.” I realize this has nothing to
do with sports, but I think this may have been the best hamburger I’ve ever
had, and I feel compelled to tell everyone about it.
I’ve got an ugly-looking, hand-written page of notes
here. Little wonder I’m having trouble
starting this. Even though it’s January,
there’s been some car-related action over the last two weeks. Fox broadcast the Barrett-Jackson auction
last weekend. Rick Hendricks and Jeff
Gordon were there in the front row. The
biggest ticket item I saw was a $4.6 million hammer on a classic Corvette.
NBC broadcast highlights from the Detroit Auto Show on
Saturday. They starting doing this when
they were doing NASCAR races and have kept doing it ever since. I was impressed by the amount of technology
that’s working its way into average cars.
Even F1 cars seem a bit low-tech by comparison. NASCAR is positively primitive. It’s hard to technology transfer between race
and street when the cars are so different.
Competition or technology? The
eternal question in racing for car companies and racing series.
NBC also showed the Mecum car auction on Sunday, after the
hockey game at Yankee Stadium. (I love
hockey, but don’t follow it enough to comment on it.) The star item in truncated coverage (as the
game was delayed by an hour) was a 1956 racing Corvette, “The Real McCoy,” that
went for $2.3 million. Nah, actually it
was Kelli Stavast’s sudden appearance as a reporter there. It warmed my little heart to see her,
especially after my disappointment the day before with the race coverage.
Eject! Eject!
Okay, let’s start over on this tomorrow with actual coverage
of the 24 Hours of Daytona.
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