This is probably not the blog you are looking for.

Read it, don’t read it, I don’t care…just needed to get some things off my chest.

In no particular order of chronology or importance…

On the clock.  Sunday MORNING rant (odd). Speed version.  Let’s turn and burn.

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1. Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  This is a complicated morning, but it is what it is.  I want to NOT be blogging all Sunday afternoon, UVA basketball is up 39-8 at half in bball, and I am switching my attention to the Steelers game.  This will not be as fluid as obviously I can’t write things when football is being played on the tube.  So, we have “commercial rant.”  I want a relatively clear list going into Monday morning.  Let’s do this.
2. No time for that Game of Thrones cameo/ other project thing I have my interns working on presently.  
3. I changed my pick at the last second on the 49ers-Chargers game to San Fran (again). Once again, I was let down.  Go to Michigan, Harbaugh, and get out why you can.
4. And Rivers is doing all this with a bulging disk…
5. UVA is for real, people. True, Harvard is not a true heavyweight, but are MUCH better than what UVA is making them look like.  
6. We could make a parallel hook with the Kentucky-UCLA game yesterday.
7. The winner of the UNC-OSU game was UNC. That win might be an important seed differentiator down the road.  It is better for UNC because the good teams in the ACC are VERY good and wins will be at a premium in league play.
8. Because she is a CSU alum, I went to a watch party for the bowl game yesterday against Utah…at the Rio. Even with the Fort Collins ties to the restaurant’s owners, the Rio is a weird place to watch football.  
9. Margaritas and football don’t jive in my opinion.
10. If McElwain wasn’t considered a top notch coach before his hiring and before yesterday’s game, he is now.
11. Keep in mind though that the coordinator of CSU who took over on the sideline head coaching responsibilities is used to coaching from the booth from high above.
12. I usually put in pictures to spruce up the blog on Sundays, but I can’t today. I need to finish this by halftime so I can focus (I changed my mind while editing).
13. And once again for the 1000^th time this year, the Steelers start off with a good drive…and a field goal.
14. It literally amazes me that there isn’t a group of people somewhere who can’t coordinate things enough to get an NFL team in L.A.
15. I am watching football, but my mind is still thinking about the best basketball game of the year next Saturday. Louisville will give Kentucky their best, this might be the last shot for a while for UK to go down, they have comparable athletes and skill level, it is AT Louisville, and you read it here that I think an upset will occur.  I think Kentucky might even benefit from a loss in the long run, and they might get one.  
16. Rondo wins in debut. Sure, his shooting wasn’t good, but isn’t that mostly the case every game.  6,7, and 9 is not bad for first insertion into game offense.  The nine assists has to be making Mr. Cuban smile somewhere.
17. I think it would be really, really funny if Jay Cutler got sent to Tennessee. He is a cry baby WITH weapons.  How the heck is he going to react if he is on a shitty team ON paper?  
18. If the Falcons fire their coach, it is simply because no one is really sure how that group of talent just stays mediocre every year.
19. Just when we thought we MIGHT have figured out both the Eagles and the Skins and where they sit in the league, the Skins go out and beat them. Mark Sanchez should definitely keep that #3 jersey number he wears.  78.7 QBR is not horrible, but with those weapons around?
20. Actually, I should retract that last hook and focus on their defense. Allowing 27 points to the Skins?
21. Even though she wasn’t injured, I hope Lindsey Vonn’s crash this weekend won’t hurt her aggressiveness on the slopes in her comeback.
22. I wrote down “Stevie Nicks” on my list but forget where I was going with that.
23. Maybe because she had an incredibly sexy voice when I was a kid hitting puberty and was pretty hot back in the day? Then, Belinda Carlisle came along and all bets were off.
24. I might have to still add pics to this thing. I think we all deserve a mid- 80’s Belinda Carlisle picture.  And a Stevie Nicks pic from the early 80’s.  
25. And more 80’s Stevie.  
26. And Belinda.  
27. One more.  
28. There is the animal that is a mouse. There is also the thing I use to move the cursor around on my laptop.  If someone throws a bunch of the latter on a table, do I have a bunch of “mice” or “mouses?”
29. Just asking…never said I was the brightest bulb on the tree.
30. I am the worst present wrapper in the history of the world.   I just basically cover the present in any way possible.  There are no internal rules on beauty of the wrapping.
31. I actually READ Lindsey’s Christmas list this year and might have gotten things she wants or needs instead of my usual system of wandering around a busy mall a week before Christmas with a hangover buying random things.
32. Someone wrote on my list, which I leave around at bars when I hit the restroom, “proof vs. poof.” That is kind of funny.
33. Right below that is Annette’s man, Phil, writing on the list (during Bohemian Rhapsody of course) “Freddie Murkey.” Work on that spelling, buddy.  Here is Mr. Murkey.  
34. Would LOVE to be a fly on the wall during any conversation involving JJ Watt, Dikembe, and the finger wag.  
35. D-Will. Give me a call.  I have been to Sacramento, and it isn’t horrible.  Not saying he turns them into title contenders, but I think EVERYONE on that overpaid Nets roster needs a change of venue.
36. Do I start watching Breaking Bad, or just rewatch every Game of Thrones episode?
37. I talked with a guy named Luke yesterday. I told him I was jealous.  If my brother was Matthew, I am Mark, I assume I had a good shot at being Luke if I was third in line.  That would have been stellar growing up around girls in the Star Wars hip era and being named Luke.  Luke was alright.  He went twice on the dance floor just to act like idiots on the dance floor in a vacant bar.  
38. What about changing my name to Luke Skywalker Filler? That sounds magical.
39. DeSean Jackon, be quiet. You had 4/126 in a WIN.  Your actions already told the Eagles what you want to say.
40. I truly and seriously don’t understand how “pepperoncini” is pronounced properly missing like one or two syllables.
41. But if you go to The Refinery in Denver, have one of those shots.  Makes you cringe because of the bold taste, but then marinates in your mouth like a delicious Italian sandwich.
42. Farkle is on my list.  Lol.  Too much to explain.
43. Finally, a shout out to my boy, Rob. We are both lone wolves, butted heads, and neither of us have spoken in a year or so.  We passed him on the street, I was standoffish, he came BACK to buy me a shot, and we have swept everything under the carpet.  Friendship resumed.  Thanks for coming back, bro.  I am such a jackass.
44. That’s it. This is too hard, blogging and watching my team.  Hope you enjoyed or are minimally more informed.  As one shepherd said to the other shepherd, I am going to get the flock out of here.