- The architect of the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona, where Super Bowl XLII will be played, is a New York Giants season ticket holder. The Giants will play the Patriots a week from Sunday.
- What do you do every year for the Super Bowl? Do you go to the same place or watch it with the same people? When I was a youth minister we always had big get-togethers with all of the kids from church to watch the game. Nowadays we sit at home with perhaps a few guests. I really want to see the game but I also want to see the commercials. So I'm zoned out for about four hours on Super Bowl Sunday.
- There is a character on our Wii Sports game that looks just like our friend Bryan C. If we made an avatar (Nintendo calls it a "Mii") to look like him, we couldn't come any closer. It's perfect! The character pops up while we're playing tennis or bowling and as soon as we spot him we yell, "It's Bryan!"
- Rumors are that the Raiders want their head coach, Lane Kiffin, to quit after just one season. If he does, that'll make the new guy the fifth head coach in seven seasons. Way to go, Al Davis, you crazy old man. The Chiefs will never be the laughing stock of the NFL as long as you're running the Raiders!
- The Wii is great but playing video games with three little boys is like… well… like playing video games with three little boys. Infuriating! They don't pay attention, they don't take it seriously, they whine if they lose and they gloat when they win. And they win most of the time. Tanner just now announced, "Prepared to be amazed!" Then he did a pirouette and bowled a perfect strike! He ended up bowling a 225, in spite of his gyrations and jumping jacks.
- I was watching True Grit (1969) with John Wayne the other day. This is the one for which he won his Academy Award. To which I say, "Really?" Both The Searchers (1956) and Stagecoach (1939) were better movies and, I think, better performances by the Duke. It certainly isn't unusual however for the Academy to give awards for lesser performances because they feel someone has been overlooked and is now due to win an award. If John Wayne had won an Oscar or two earlier in his career, you have to question whether he would have been considered for True Grit. An unfortunate number of awards over the last 80 years might fall into this category and you have to wonder about the domino effect it might have.
- We saw Cloverfield the other day. What an interesting approach to a movie! Even though the big screen can induce motion sickness, the theater sound is irreplaceable for movies like this. Few home theaters can compete.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Random Thoughts 1/25/07
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Obviously by now you have realized I am not a Chiefs fan. When I read your comment about the Raiders it reminded me about something I heard on the radio the other day. Since they have changed the name of the AFC Championship trophy to the Lamar Hunt trophy, every team in the AFC West has played in at least two AFC Title games except for the Chiefs who have played in zero. So, eventhough the Chiefs don't have a lot of horrible years, I think the end result is that they are the worst team in the AFC West.
Chad
I have played the Wii and noticed myself a number of times! This may explain why I get a number of stange looks from strangers when I'm out and about. Or it could be that I'm decked out in KU stuff among all the Sooners.
part of True Grit was filmed just outside Carson City, Nevada. There's a scene where he's camping or something and there are a few trees and a lake in the background. They are in the Washoe Valley, and a major highway runs through there just on the opposite side of that very small lake. Every time we fly into Reno to see my parents and we're driving to their house we pass that spot and I think of that movie.
Of all the movies out there (No Country...), you saw Cloverfield? :/
It was the day before No Country was released in KC and we had time constraints and other issues to consider as well. Often we'll pass on a good movie that we know we'd like in favor of a spectacle-type movie if we're paying to see it on the big screen with surround sound.
No Country just hit KC? I saw it over a month ago in T-Town...
Sorry, I was thinking of a different movie, There Will Be Blood. No Country was playing but at the wrong time.
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