Super Bowl? More like Super Bull.... Hope the advertisers in the 2nd half got rebates for diminished audiences. Next time this kind of mismatch happens, maybe the NFL will install the "mercy rule" used in high school games.... keep the clock running the entire time, including 'time outs', when the game is over at half time.

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John Elway and the rest of the Denver front office must have been kicking themselves last night. Tim Tebow had a lot better Super Bowl night than Peyton Manning.

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With no allegiance to either team, we changed over to pulling for Seattle in the 3rd quarter. Shoot, there wasn't any reason to be miserable over a badly played game.

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I think Rocky Balboa gave Denver its game plan.... let your opponent wear itself out beating your brains out, then hope for a knockout punch in the last round.

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Peyton Manning closed his eyes and flinched! That wounded duck interception that Seattle ran back for a TD should have gone to the ground with Manning, but what's a QB doing in the Super Bowl who closes his eyes when getting pressured?

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Broadway Joe" looked more like "Street Corner Jill"... wonder whether he has traded in his pantyhose for "Spanx"?

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The Super Bowl had Martin Sheen as emcee lead-in for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Why would the NFL give him a role in presenting the ideals of our Founding Fathers? In the past, I'd ask, what was the NFL smoking... but now we already know.

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I've been watching the first & second seasons of "Columbo" from the late 60s. early 70s. Every body smoked.. in cars, in their houses, in their friends houses, even in houses where the pilot lights ofa stove were blown out and a suicide faked. Unfortunately, that's what people did back then.

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Online headline: "Thousands of ObamaCare site error appeals reportedly going unfixed" -- As art indeed imitates life, OObamaCRAP indeed imitates Judas 00-Barnum...

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Missed the original interview, but have watched the O'Reilly interview with Judas 00-Barnum this AM... I was aghast to see our president sans a necktie while broadcasting from the White House. I guess 00-Barnum was dressed appropriate in his mind to reflect how he has but casual respect for the truth as well. Either that, or was afraid to have any kind of slip knotted device around his neck.

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In that interview, Judas 00-Barnum said, ". “I try to focus not on the fumbles but on the next plan." -- Hmmm so what are his next planned fumbles?

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When I coached kids in Little League, I tried to teach them that when they made an error (baseball's equivalent of a "fumble"), it was OK, but after that "physical" error it was more important not to make a "mental" error. That meant there was no time to kick the dirt or throw their gloves down or look at the bench/bleachers in disbelief. The physical error meant they had a new assignment to minimize the damage. They had to either retrieve the ball or get to a base and cover it, of line up as a cutoff man... MINIMIZE the effect of that error. Judas 00-Barnum never had a coach show him how to minimize his errors, and it shows, and it hurts the team more than the actual physical error.

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Soapbox moment: Unionizing college athletics will destroy educational opportunities for way more student athletes than benefit the miniscule few who will make it to a professional level of sports. Let's face it... if athletes become unionized pay-for-play workers, scholarships will have to count as income for the recipients, and that will make them taxable. Since there is no difference in classrooms as to whether a student on scholarship is there because of his/her sports ability or academic achievement, all scholarships will have to be treated equally. Even GA's "Hope Scholarships" would become taxable revenues, and those total ride, highly sought prestige scholarships would become albatrosses around the neck of students (and/or their parents).

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L-E story: " A woman faces a reckless conduct charge after her 3-year-old son was found trying to cross Veterans Parkway, according to a Columbus police report." -- Another soapbox moment: This just brings to light where the schools system has failed in its attempt to remove responsibility of individual parents. I'm talking about the recent situation where a 5 year old boy manipulated school employees to get out of being put on a bus for a ride to someplace else after school. Why are we involved in transporting so many children between homes and schools in the first place? There are very little "rural" situations in the MCSD that would cause many hardship cases for the school system to need to address. It's just that federal programs have necessitated recruiting riders to justify the grant moneys. I believe the last figure I heard says we have about 500 buses in the school system. Those buses cost $100,000.00 +/- bucks apiece when new, and that's for the basics..(quick math shows that over a 10 year period/lifespan, we have spent $50 MILLION tax dollars on depreciable items) Add air conditioning and the costs escalate quickly.. not only in initial outlay but in fuel and maintenance costs. making more parents more responsible, more a part of the education system, more a part of their children's lives would save money and improve the results.

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L-E story: "Georgia would take the first steps to regulating the use of drones through legislation under consideration in the General Assembly. * Rep. Harry Geisinger, R-Roswell, has sponsored a bill that would provide for the lawful use of unmanned aircraft in certain circumstances. A separate bill sponsored by Rep. Stephen Allison, RBlairsville, would prohibit manned or unmanned aircraft from flying within 100 feet above the surface of a property for surveillance without a search warrant or permission of the property owner." -- "prohibit ...unmanned aircraft from flying within 100 feet above the property for surveillance without a search warrant or permission of the property owner"? With cameras already available that can track moving autos' license tags from satellites orbiting Earth , what privacy without a search warrant would matter whether or not the 'drone" was less than or above 100 feet?

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L-E story: " Some Georgia educators say they feel slighted by pay increases for nationally board certified teachers being left out of the state’s education budget." -- Extra pay for being a certified teacher? Being certifies should be a requirement for consideration as a teacher.. not a plus.

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Yesterday, the L-E ran an article highlighting a few crime zones in Columbus, but with out really going into detail, the L-E has basically highlighted the most drug related crime zones, yet avoided showing the zones that have more home burglary and auto theft crimes. Why? Could it be, simply that highlighting those would probably alarm and disappoint Mayor Obamalinson's campaign donors.