It has been too long away from these pages, hasn’t it?
Maybe.
Or, as my Granny used to say, “Might…Might Not!”
It was a miracle. I called the College Footbal Game correctly. Georgia won over Alabama and at the beginning of bowl season I made that call. It all sure went quickly.
At some point I will add up my win-loss picks for the entire bowl season. I doubt I report that. It will be uglier than a bowling shoe. If Lewis Grizzard was somewhere watching last Monday, I hope he enjoyed it.
Don’t be greedy, BAMA.
The Bengals won one.
No, the Bengals helmets don’t look like that anymore. They did when I saw them in person for the first time. They were playing the Packers in 1975 in what we used to call an “exhibition” game. Now it is called the preseason.
The last time I saw the Bengals in person they defeated my Eli-led New York Giants in 2012.
It will be the last time I attend a Bengals game, as the flyover that day left me adversely phased to a point no return. I will never step foot into Paul Brown Stadium again.
But good for the 2021 Bengals. The beat the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday to earn their first playoff victory since the 1990 season on January 6, 1991. Who beat them the next week in 1991? That would be the Los Angeles Raiders.
Two Hall of Fame coaches went at it on Decemebr 28, 1975. This time it was the OAKLAND Raiders (as the Lord intended) defeating the Cincinnati Bengals.
RAIDERS 31 BENGALS 28
John Madden’s Okland team beat Paul Brown’s team. Talk about some history on those sidelines.
I was watching the game in my grandparents’ den at 1439 Alma Street in Shreveport. I still remember being sore at my Granny cos she was rooting for the Raiders. It was George Blanda’s last season in 1975. His first on was in 1949. A quarterback turned kicker. There was only one like Blanda and that was Blanda. Granny was for Blanda.
That was the last quote of the day my students saw in the room. I had no idea that on Friday, we would not be together and that the rest of this week, starting tomorrow, will be what we call ELearning. The kids are at home. I am at my desk looking at a computer screen hoping they will all show up for our “virtual class time”. We do the best we can do. That covid shadow just kept creeping in closer and closer. We could feel it. That would be a rather hopeless feeling.
I pulled a large Moodies poster out of mothballs, as I needed a larger coloful backdrop.
Carrie and I picked this up for my Dad this weekend at a large, majestic store in Jasper.
A 5 lb bag of goobers!
Dad got after them watching his Southern Miss Golden Eagles at Marshall some years ago.
We’ll give Granny the last word. Though she disappointed me when she rooted against my Bengals forty-seven years ago, I thought of her when I ran across this just yesterday.
She enjoyed watching her Cowboys. Captain America led the way. And when the Cowboys were on defense, Granny yelled out a hearty, “Get Him!!!!”
I will be for the Rams over the Cardinals tonight. If I had it my way, the Rams will play the Bengals in Super Bowl LVI. I think that is the correct Roman Numeration. If not, I contend to just speak the rights…
Danny Johnson