Apparently, the NFL started their regular season this weekend.
I just barely noticed.
It isn’t so much the politics, although McThag has a good post up on that. I’m just finding it really difficult to care.
Still, one of the motivations for starting this blog was the NFL loser update, and as a wise man once said…
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
San Francisco
Carolina
Tampa Bay
Atlanta
Dallas
Philadelphia
New York Football Giants
Minnesota
Detroit
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Indianapolis
Houston
New York Jets
Miami
In other semi-related football news, I have been reading as much of Gregg Easterbrook’s Twitter as I can stomach, and there has been no mention of “Tuesday Morning Quarterback” at all. Not just a lack of pointers to the current column, but also a lack of “if you liked it, write our sponsor” messages. I have to assume that he’s not doing it this year, though his silence on the subject is a little strange.
I guess it says something about me, but I miss country music when it was real like this. There are a few performers now who can sing, but the fact is, most of them don’t give you the feeling that they have lived anything of the songs they sing. On the other hand, listening to Hank, Jr. , to Johnny Cash, and some of the ladies of country from even as short of a time back as Patty Loveless, and her peers, you believe that they have either lived the songs or at least understand what they are singing.
I did watch a little bit of the Detroit Lions, as I live in Michigan, and wanted to be certain that they would no surprise me by being good this year. No surprise, they are not going to go far.
pigpen51
It says something about me, too. I didn’t have an appreciation for country music when I was younger, and South Texas Pistolero is a lot more familiar with (and somewhat more critical of) modern country than I am.
But now that I’m older, I’m really drawn to Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., some of Hank Jr., Merle Haggard, Johnny Horton, and a lot of those other folks. I get chills down my spine when I hear Hank Sr. sing “Kaw-Liga” or those opening horns on “Ring Of Fire”.
Do you have to be old to appreciate “classic” (for want of a better term) country?
You missed this:
https://twitter.com/EasterbrookG/status/1297234740903387136
So yes, no TMQ this year.
Yukigami:
You’re absolutely right, I did miss that. Thanks for the catch!