While I enjoy the entire trilogy, I have seen Back To The Future roughly 5,481 more times than I've seen either BTTF II or BTTF III. I figure most people --- aside from my odd buddy, Jeff, who likes II the best of the whole series --- are in a similar boat. So, while I've seen the first movie so...
Back in the halcyon days of Da Good, Da Bad & DeMeco, I wrote: Every time I hear the song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," two things jump out at me. First, under the terms of the agreement, it was apparently up to the Devil to decide who won the competition. No judges were named, and no one...
Very few things in life --- in my life, at least (though I suspect this to be the same for most of us) --- ever live up to the expectations we've set for them. Movies, sophomore album releases, famous restaurants, the finales of most television series . . . the more we hype how great something is...
I have a bizarre fascination with hidden tracks on CDs. Discovering one always feels like the first time I made it through the swimming stage of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the original NES. (Seriously, it's bad enough that they made Donatello the only turtle who was worth fighting with;...
Under normal circumstances, losing a game in the manner that the Texans did on Sunday would have sent me into a rage that resulted in a dog's being kicked. (Probably the little dachshund; she barely counts as a dog, really.) Losing to the Tennessee Titans in that fashion would have taken my...
Despite the fact that the widow of a United States Marine was presented with a mortgage-free house on Sunday, and the entire presentation occurred on the field prior to the game, Jeremy Shockey declared that the Texans were unpatriotic and did not "show[] respect to America during the national...
Your Houston Texans have played a game of footed ball on December 11 exactly twice in their near-decade of games. On December 11, 2005, the Texans rolled into Nashville sporting a 1-14 record. Also on that date, the San Francisco 49ers had an identically terrible record, and a race to to the bottom...
On September 1, 2007, I was en route to Memphis with my wife to celebrate our first anniversary with a weekend away. Michigan's football season started that day, but, as they were ranked #5 in the country and were playing D-1AA Appalachian State, I wasn't too concerned with the game. Around 2...
You can always count on two things to really ramp up immediately following Thanksgiving: Christmas shopping (with all its attendant aspects, such as commercials, sales, and terrible drivers making the two-mile radius around every mall and shopping center unbearable to navigate) and complaining...
I hate bye weeks. I loathe them. In terms of sports scheduling, they are my bête noire. We'll get into why I regard them with such enmity in a bit, but, first, have you ever stopped and thought about the bye? These days, the concept of the "bye week" during the NFL season is so ingrained...
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