Which Way Do I Go?

Very rarely in football do I have a problem deciding which team to pull for. I mean, look, I have a few favorite teams, whom I always pull for, then, I have a few teams that I pull for when they are not playing one of my favorite teams, then there are all the rest.

For example, several years ago when LSU and OU played in the BCS game, obviously I was for OU, but it didn't necessarily break my heart that LSU won the championship. By the way, Les was not coaching LSU at the time. For the most part, college ball is easy; I always pull for OU, then there are some other teams that I usually pull for unless they are playing OU.

Pro football is a little bit different. Generally speaking, I pull for Dallas, Oakland, and New Orleans in that order. But I gotta tell you, the up coming Minnisota vs. Dallas game is going to be tough. Yes I would like Dallas to win, but then again I would love to see Favre win. o particular reason why, except perhaps because he is the same age as me.

In fact I predict Minnesota will win 24-10. What do you think?

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The eyes of Texas are a crying

Texas had it coming. Life is harsh...To have a QB capable of winning a National Championship, to watch him go down early in his last college football game, and then witness the rest of the team melt. Poor Texas.

I just hope they muster up the energy drag there sorry butts to the Cotton Bowl in October because the years of Texas dominance is over.

And one more thing, Rhett must disagree...A dominant defense is no match for a power running game. Texas had the number 1 defense in the country, and Alabama wore that right side slick. The tide used three running backs and powered over the horns. I believe EZ Fingers is right, we will see more of the power run in the future.

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Is This a Joke? What a sad story...

Robert Wosturnmik was the CEO and president of a fine scientific firm called R. W. Scientific Laboratories, Inc. in upstate Washington. Robert started the company about twenty years or so ago and had managed to turn it into a top-notch company in the realm of scientific research. In fact his company is responsible for many of the gadgets you probably use everyday, as well as being for improvements and refinements of items already in existence. The company for example made a small fortune on the 12-volt, plug in your car coffee warming mug.

But, with all of this success, Robert found that he was working way, way too hard and barely had time for his wife and kids. After pondering over the situation for awhile, he decided to call in one of his lead scientists to help give him some advice on the matter.

Glen, his lead scientist, told Robert about a project the firm was working on concerning cloning the human body. He explained to Robert that it might be possible to make a clone of himself, and Robert could take some time off while the clone stayed on the job to get things done. Robert, after thinking it over, decided that this just might be a good idea. Glen, however, explained to Robert that they had not perfected the cloning process and that one of the main problems with the clone was that it cussed like a sailor all the time.

After further consideration, Robert decided that it might not be so bad to have someone with a salty tongue handle the day-to-day operations of the company and that perhaps someone with a little bit of a mouth might be a good thing.

Anyway, after creating the clone, and Glen telling Robert it was ready, but warning again of his somewhat vulgar use of the English language, Robert decided to take some much needed time off and let the clone be in charge for awhile.

However, it wasn't long until it became apparent that the clone wasn't going to work out as intended. The clone couldn't hardly say a single sentence without uttering some type of profanity. As a result, the company began loosing customers, and several of its employees quit.

Even though Robert wanted some more time off, he decided he had to return to work and see what was going on. He reasoned that, maybe if he spoke with the clone about his improper use of his profanity, maybe the clone would understand and curb his tongue a little. So, Robert went back to work and asked the clone if they could have lunch in the cafeteria on the top floor of the building. The clone agreed.

While they were at lunch, Robert tried to explain to the clone that he just couldn't continue to use such vulgar language, that it was making customers mad and causing many of the long-term employees to quit. The clone however responded with very disgusting language, calling Robert all kinds of names. This of course began to make Robert very mad and before long both Robert and his clone were yelling back and forth, screaming and shouting, and causing quite a scene.

In the course of all of this the clone continued to call Robert all sorts of terrible names and finally Robert had had enough and punched the clone in the nose. The clone fell backwards and through the window of the cafeteria on the top floor, and fell all the way down 32 stories to the street below. Robert, who by now was in complete shock, realized what had happened and ran down the stairs to the street to see what had happened to the clone.

By the time Robert got down to the clone, the police, fire department, and an ambulance had arrived on the scene and several people from nearby offices and buildings had come outside to see what all the commotion was about.

Finally, Robert got a chance to speak to an officer. The officer responded, "Sir, we are going to have to place you under arrest!"

"Why? Why are you placing me under arrest?"

"Well, " the officer replied, "can't you see? You made an obscene clone fall..."

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A Football Prediction

I don't know if anyone watched the Georgia Tech vs. Iowa game Tuesday night, but it was a great game. The most interesting thing about the game was watching Georgia Tech use the option. Talk about bring back memories of OU in the 70's.

My prediction is that a lot of college teams, and perhaps even OU, will return to the smash mouth run offense. I tell you why.

First, the west coast pass offense is old and stale. It's where the run option game was in the 80's when everyone was using it and became easy to defend against. Although I was glad to see a change to a more pass oriented offense in the 90's, I think it's time has passed. As everyone witnessed this year, most all the teams that used this style of offense did rather poorly.

Texas may be the one exception, although they seem to be using a much more balanced style of play, using the fullback more often with an older style of I-formation, but also using a pass-option style.

In other words, the west coast style of pass offense has become easy to defend against.

Secondly, most of the college players today do not remember or were not alive when the option offense was in full swing. A return to a more option oriented offense would throw a lot of teams off guard.

Thirdly, as has always been the case regardless of the type of offense used, the team that controls the clock generally controls the game. As you know, a run offense is much more time intensive than a pass offense.

The downside of course to a run style of offense is that it is very difficult to come back from behind if you are behind by more than two or three touchdowns. I am sure we can all remember some of those hairy OU games where we would get behind by 14 or 17 points and barely win the game, if we won at all.

Nonetheless, it is time for an offensive change in college ball; and after watching Georgia Tech, I think a triple option may be the way to go. This doesn't mean we would never pass, like the days of Switzer, but the pass would simply be one option out of say two or three.

Unfortunately because of new recruiting rules and the length of time it takes to impose such changes, we probably won't see such a major change until 2013 or 2014, but indeed I do believe we will see such a change.

What do you think?

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Rockport here come.....

Hey Hey Hey.... Good News; well I think it is anyway. Pat and Elaine, some very good friends of mine in Medicine Park, have just purchased a summer home in Rockport, Texas. In case you are wondering, Rockport is about 60 miles north of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Anyway, they purchased this home in an online auction. The house appraised at $149,000, and they wound up buying the house for $50,000. Not a bad deal.

Pat and Elaine, and several others of us will be going down to the house this spring and doing some remodeling and other needed work on the home. We figure the place needs about a month of work on it to be good to go.

This is where the good news comes in - I will be able to use the home anytime I want to. I spoke with Pat and Elaine about the possibility of using the house sometime in June or July and having my family come along. They said that would be fine.

Therefore, if anyone is interested, I thought we might all go down there for a week or so sometime this summer. We are about 1/2 mile from the beach. The house is three bedrooms and also has a guest house in the back, so there would be plenty of room.

Now the bad news is that it is an 11 hour drive to Rockport. Nonetheless, I thought this might be something that we could all enjoy this summer.

If you might be interested, please let me know ASAP so I can put the plan in motion. I know it is only January, but you know how time flies. Plus, it would give everyone a chance to take off work if possible, and it would allow me to make sure there would be no scheduling conflicts with other people that will be using the house from time to time.

I think we would all have a grand time. It may not be as fun as going to the lake house, but it could be really neat. Like I say, the beach is only about 1/2 mile from the house. It has a full bar, a big screen TV, plenty of room, and would definitely be a good get away.

Let me know.

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Updates

First of all, I want to thank everyone who took part in the Skype conversation on Friday. I think everyone did a great job considering the slow video and what not. You guys do not know how great it was for me and Meg to see you again, so each of you should try to set up some time to Skype with us on a smaller scale.

Second, Mike, congratulations on becoming a midwife. I do believe you are entering the profession at a time when midwives are out of favor, but you have never been one to back down from a challenge. Actually, I am kidding. I know I will get a chance to see you when I gear up Dennis to run a Skype conversation again. I hope you are doing well, though.

Finally, I have posted pictures from Turkey (click this link and the password is ernie (can't remember if that is capitalized)). There are a lot of pictures of stray cats, so let me explain. Turkey is known for having a large population of stray cats, and that is quite common in the Mediterranean area for some reason. Regardless, it is interesting because the cats eat any rodent in the city, and people feed these cats a ton, so it is like free labor for the Turkish people. Meg thought this was fascinating, so she took pictures of as many cats as possible. If you are unsure of a picture, such as where it was taken, and if you would like me to explain it, please let me know what the picture number is. I will try and add descriptions of locations later, but there are a ton of pictures.

On that note, I am off. I hope to speak to all of you again soon. Have a great weekend.

-Rhett

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So Sorry.....

I deeply apologize for not making it to Ted's on the 1st; a good friend of mine had her baby that day-her birthday will be 01/01/10. Pretty neat.

The baby wasn't due actually until the 11th; however, it came early. I had come up to watch the OU game on the 31st with the full intention of going to Ted's on the 1st.

Chrissy started having labor pains the evening of the 31st and by 9:00pm she was going to the hospital. Needless to say, I was assigned house duties including cooking, feeding the dog, and driving people including the grandma that don't know who or where she is, to the hospital.

I think I got maybe two hours of sleep between Wednesday and Friday due to all of this fantastic activity. When I got back to the house at around 4:00pm Friday, I fell asleep and didn't wake up until about 11:30pm. This is why I missed going to Ted's.

Again, I apologize. But I must say, watching a baby being born is an absolute miracle from God, there is just no other way to describe it.

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