Hello, Group.

2024.  Say it again.  2024.  Wow.  I have always enjoyed the even years more so than the odd ones.  I don’t know what that means.

I started this online writing project in July of 2014.  We’re still here.  More than 750 posts later.  More than I ever intended.  More than I probably needed.  A few I didn’t write that I needed to.  We go where we are led (most of the time).

Let’s start 2024 with this:

When we are on a bridge, for some reason we never look up.

There’s always going to be some crazy inspiration somewhere. If you give in and allow someone to do your dreaming for you, you’ll find your worst self.

January 1.  College Football’s best day.  Bowl games and more bowl games.  Yes I know, the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl have already been played.  We won’t go down THAT road.

“This is the Mecca.  This is the mansion at the end of the yellow brick road.”                                                                                                                     – Keith Jackson

Today in the mansion, Alabama plays Michigan.  I picked BAMA to win it all in the speaktherights.com College Football Preview in August.  I think they will.  Being a child of The Big Ten and knowing full well this is the Big Ten’s bowl, I will be rooting for Michigan today.  If it were Ohio State or Wisconsin playing BAMA, I would Roll Tide.  My loyalty has limits.  The Maize and Blue with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background looks natural.  Seeing Crimson Tide mascot Big AL on the sidelines reminds me of a turd in a punch bowl.  This problem is my own and I don’t wish it on anyone.

So at the end of the day I hope the Michigan Wolverines find a match-up for the CFP Championship next Monday against the Washington Huskies.  I hope the Huskies dismantle the Texas Longhorns tonight.  I won’t hold my breath.  College Football is rarely kind to me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Speaking the RIghts…

Danny Johnson