Today IS the Battle of the Titans!

*Back in the Get Down Lounge, after a little Stay-Cay....

*Football fans in most part of the country loving today!  Game 1 is Manning vs. Brady.  (Even my wonderful spouse literally just chimed in, "I want Manning to beat Tom Brady!)  Man oh man the NFL DOES have a wide demographic!  Brady is the best I have ever seen at the QB position.  He and Joe are so similar, but I give Brady the nod with the arm.  The Gods love him too--the only time Brady ever really failed in a big game was the Tuck play, and we know how that turned out don't we?!?  Denver, no offense, but the only thing I have ever liked about the Broncos was when former Rio Vista High, Cal Bear, and Oakland Invader, Tim Lucas played for them.  That's it.  In fact, there was the infamous mysterious whistle that costs the Raiders mightily in the AFC Championship Game at Mile High in 1977.  (For those of you who aren't aware, there was the phantom whistle near the Raider goal line--the Broncos Rob Lytle had clearly fumbled, but an tucking inadvertent whistle allowed the Broncos to keep the ball.!)  So, all of you non Raider fans out there--the Tuck, and Mile High Massacre, and you wonder why Raiders fans abhor officials?

*Digression number 1:  Speaking of the Raiders, Jim Plunkett and Ken Stabler both the most underrated QB's of all time.  Period. Speaking of the Raiders of the modern era--and shish it's been ugly--now we will see what Reggie and Dennis can do.  Stay tuned.

*Game 2 Seahawks vs. 49ers.  Now this is a football game.  Teams don't like each other, coaches don't like each other, cities don't like each other, management's don't like each other, now that is football.  As remember vividly as a kid when the Raiders played the Steelers is was on!  Receivers were clobbered, and the teams simply knocked the snot out of each other.  (Boy how I pine for those days huh?)  Interesting enough, back in the 70's, the Raiders did pretty well in the regular season against the Steel Curtain, but the in playoffs, immaculately, the yellow and black jerseys prevailed the majority of the time.  Now anyone is has ever gone to a game with me knows I am a pain in the keester, but it is me, or are the Seahwaks fans just a little annoying?  Win something first, then call me....and that whole not selling tickets to anyone with a California address, really?  We live in what country?  I can't imagine the football gods were on board with that pitiful call!

*Thus I foresee another Bronco-Niner Super Bowl.  Yuk--the two color shemes hurt my eyes.  I am making it official, I am putting my mother on prayer patrol and asking for a Cowboys-Raiders Super Bowl some time before 2025.  In New Orleans seems like the perfects stage for these two fan bases, but for me personally, the game should be played in Pasadena, so maybe I have a friend out there for life who can score me a ticket!

*Anyone see the W's vs. the Thunder the other night.  Now THAT was a basketball game.  I am clearly  on the Warriors bandwagon!

*Australian Open update: hard to believe Serena is out.  She was upset this morning by Ana Ivanovich.
For the record, Ivanovich probably the cutest lady player on the tour.  Yes, she and Brad Pitt would have been THE couple!  The temperature was crazy hot during the week....crazy.  Playing tennis at anything over 95 degress, just not right.

*A's notes:  well,  they are on hold for another 25 days or so until pitchers and catchers report.  I can still envision them bringing in another veteran pitcher at some point.  Looks like Tanaka is headed to L.A., Chicago, Arizon, or NY.  I think the Yankees are waiting until all the cards are on the table, then here comes the cash!

*I keep going back and forth....take the kids to see the Globetrotters...yes...no...yes...no...this morning I was whistling Sweet Georgia Brown in the shower.  I guess that answered my question, huh? I just wonder why the Trotters don't get a little more credit for taking the game--and a cultural-global.  Has there ever been an organization that spread good will, and even help with race relations?  Come on, they even made it to Scooby Doo, that's reaching the world!

*To all those warriors of the NFL gridiron, today I raise my glass to you!