New Years Day

I love college football, am passionate about it. If you follow me on twitter you can see how.

When I hear people bash the Rose Bowl (Clay Travis) I get upset.

The sport has changed so much the past 20 years, from the Bowl Alliance to BCS to Playoff, and then on top of that all the conference realignment, disintegration and lost history of rivalries.

The game is going places so quickly that is going to change much much more around the 2025 season with all new TV deals. SEC going exclusively to ESPN is going to hurt EVERY OTHER CONFERENCE as long as ESPN controls the College Football Playoffs and New Years 6.

We've lost New Years Day from what it was, to only having 4-5 games on. Where most bowls now don't mean much, are played in half empty stadiums, (looking at you Sugar Bowl), the Rose Bowl oozes tradition and is not losing any luster.

The semifinals SHOULD be played on Jan 1, but at 130 and 7. The Rose Bowl SHOULD ALWAYS be played at 4pm CST.

Happy Holiday Hawkeyes!

 The first game after the passing on Hayden Fry, and he is/was a Holiday Bowl Legend.  It turned out really well!

Touchdown Shots!

And there's only one way to Celebrate a big Hawkeye win!

Game Highligts

John Hayden Fry 🐐

Hayden, you were and will always be the MAN!

We lost a Hawkeye Legend today, but his Legacy will live on forever

The day I got to meet Hayden Fry, with Pete and Dad

Kingpin

  

Her first HS 🎳 meet and picks up a spare in her first frame

Heart grew three times that day

I may be a bit of a Grinch, but smiles from my kids like this will grow my heart 3 times it's normal size any day about Christmas.

Date Night

 Pretty lucky that this lovely little lady wanted to have a date with me tonight.

2018 Summer Movie Awards

Movies Seen : Avengers : Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Solo, Ready Player One, Incredibles 2, AntMan & Wasp, Jurassic World 2:Fallen Kingdom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Teen Titans Go to the Movies 

Not Seen : Oceans 8, Mission Impossible : Fallout, Christopher Robin

Best Flick - Avengers : Infinity War

Best Dude – Josh Brolin : Thanos : Avengers Infinity War – Yes I’m giving it to a villain.  Infinity War is Thanos’s film, and you get a sense of what he wants to do and what he will do to get it done.  He has some backstory to his goals and the treachery he goes to do that, including some heartbreak he delivers it excellent.

Chris Hemsworth : Thor : Avengers Infinity War – How far has Thor come in the MCU.  He was looked at as a character who’s arc was overshadowed by that of his brother, Loki, in these films and then after how Hemsworth and Waititi changed him in Ragnarok, you really just want to see more.  He I thought was the best Avenger in this flick. 

HM – Chris Pratt : Star Lord ;  Robert Downey Jr : IronMan ; Donald Glover : Lando Calrissian

Best Dudette – Elizabeth Olson : Scarlet Witch : Avengers Infinity War – Of all the female characters in Infinity War, I felt hers was the best and the most emotional and heart breaking.  Having to kill Vision, then see him being killed again.  And her action sequences were awesome to.   Olson’s 2^nd win as Best Dudette

Best Scene – IronMan, SpiderMan and Star Lord discussing their plan.  The best of this was when Drax said “Mention the dance off to save the universe”, Spidey responds “like Footloose?”  Star Lord – “Exactly like footloose!  Is that still the best movie ever?”  Spidey – “It never was”

                  – AntMan & the Wasp End Credit Scene – as much as the movie didn’t blow me away, this was EXCELENT and ties to Infinity War perfectly

Best Fight – The first fight for Vision’s mind stone and the reappearance of Captain America and his Avengers crew.  AND Iron Man, Dr Strange, Wong and Spidey fighting for the Time Stone.

Biggest Dud – Teen Titans Go To the Movies : I can normally take this show in small doses in the 15-30 minute time frame, but I really just didn’t like this movie.  There were some funny moments but nothing that made me wanna go see it again

                    – Incredibles 2 : Pixar gave us a lil bit of the Cars 2 hangover with focusing too much I felt on Jack Jack, instead of the whole crew.  It was a lot better than Cars 2 and a decent sequel but I think it could have been better.

Anticipated Sequel – Captain Marvel (prequel) & Avengers 4