Quick thoughts on the Super Bowl

• If I were putting together NBC's opening sequence, I would have made a few more changes to the opening song. For example, instead of "waiting all day", how about "waiting all year"? And how can you pass up the fact that "forty-three" rhymes with "NBC" and so could have been inserted into the song with few other changes? You won't get anything like this until Super Bowl 70!
• I hate to disagree with Roger Goodell, but this game did not top last year's game. This game does have the advantage over Super Bowl XLII, and XXXVIII, that the first half was not boring as hell. But while this game did produce some landmark, all-time Super Bowl plays, those individual marks can't really compare with a great game - this game was just like any other Super Bowl from a pre-game angle standpoint, unlike XLII, and the Cinderella team didn't win, which hurts its standing - in fact I was rooting for Pittsburgh to pull out the win just because it would have been too bizarre otherwise. There are in fact some similarities with XXXVIII, another game people wondered about being the best Super Bowl ever. One of these days I need to go over the game film, or at least the NFL Films distillations, or even compact game stories, of every Super Bowl and rank the greatest ever. FSN's "The Sports List" did a ranking probably around the time of XL, maybe even before XXXVIII. Obviously, that list needs a serious update.
• Is it too early to start talking about Ben Roethlisberger's Hall of Fame credentials? Remember, in the lead-up to the Super Bowl people were talking about Kurt Warner's Hall of Fame credentials now that he had reached three Super Bowls with two different teams. Now Roethlisberger has been to one fewer Super Bowl and won two, becoming just the tenth QB in NFL history to do so, and not completely throwing up in the second. Not to mention his leadership in the regular season. If there's a knock against him it's that he's leading a team composed of a bunch of parts that might win Super Bowls without him, but then again that was the knock against Tom Brady for a while as well. If he so far as makes one more Super Bowl, is he a shoo-in for the Hall? And is it possible that his final drive in this game, which had Steve Young positively salivating on ESPN's NFL Primetime, is the one that puts him in the Hall?
• Speaking of ESPN, and lists, about your "Top 10" Super Bowl plays: Your own analysts, who clamored for Manning-to-Tyree to beat out Roethlisberger-to-Holmes for #1, are correct. What you should have done was rank the Harrison INT return significantly further back, in the middle or even near the back, since it was one of those sideshow gimmicky plays that come out of the blue every once in a while in the Super Bowl. By ranking it #3, you forced the Holmes play to #1 to avoid consecutive plays from the same game. Probably the main reason you rated the Holmes play #1 was because it actually scored the game-winning TD, but it arguably makes Manning-to-Tyree greater that it attained such greatness without actually scoring. (Incidentially, initially I rendered "Holmes" as "Burress". What does that tell you?)
• Am I the only one who noticed that the clock briefly stopped at two minutes left in the game when Roethlisberger barely got a play off, then started again as the clock operator realized there was a play going on, and the discrepancy was never corrected? How might that have influenced Arizona's final drive? The game-ending fumble would have only occured with two seconds or so left on the clock! You think Arizona would be working a bit quicker? And am I the only one who thinks that on the play to the 5 on Pittsburgh's final drive, the main reason the Steelers called a timeout was that the receiver (I think it was Holmes) was a little lazy getting back to the line of scrimmage, as though he didn't quite realize the situation? The Steelers might have needed that timeout to set up a field goal with a few seconds left on the clock if the Cardinals had been able to get a stop. I think there was one other "Am I the only one who noticed that" in there, but damned if I can remember it now.

I have plenty to say about the ads in a later post, where I hope to hand out awards for the ads, and some comments on NBC's modified banner for the game, which is also an opportunity to talk about ESPN's new tennis banner it broke out at the Aussie Open. There were a LOT of great ads in the second half of this game. Lineal titles updated for the offseason.

More football than you'd ever expect two days before the Super Bowl

This post is now hosted only on the new site.

Because I just wasted my free time on my first day back at school...

...this is the only post you get from me today.

Because of all my college football stuff, I've sort of been growing distant from the NFL Lineal Title (the Colts' long reign hasn't helped). During the before-the-bowls interregnum, I've been neglecting to update it at all. That changes now. However, the college lineal titles aren't updated until after the National Championship.

College Football Schedule: Bowls

Rankings reflect my College Football Rankings. This week's rankings only (not past weeks) reflect a correction: Stanford's game against San Jose State was being counted as being against San Diego State. It shouldn't affect anything at the top and certainly not anything in the Golden Bowl, but it does affect three conferences' ratings, and as a direct result the Mountain West has retaken the lead over the MAC, implying they may have been almost always ahead all along. SDSU has been a constant in the Bottom 10, though its ranking in it isn't affected. Lineal titles also updated. All times Eastern.

BOWL	Teams	LOCATION	DATE/ TIME/ CHANNEL
TOP 25 TEAMS
FedEx BCS National Championship Game	#1 Florida	Miami	Jan. 8, 2009, 8 p.m.
Princeton-Yale/2004 Auburn-Utah Unif.	#2 Oklahoma	Dolphin Stadium	FOX
Tostitos Fiesta	#9 Ohio State	Glendale, Ariz.	Jan. 5, 2009, 8 p.m.
	#3 Texas	University of Phoenix Stadium	FOX
Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi	#5 Penn State	Pasadena, Calif.	Jan. 1, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
	#4 USC	Rose Bowl	ABC
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia	#10 TCU	San Diego	Dec. 23, 8 p.m.
For Creation of 2008 Boise State Title	#6 Boise State	Qualcomm Stadium	ESPN
Allstate Sugar	#8 Utah	New Orleans	Jan. 2, 2009, 8 p.m.
2006-7 Boise State Title	#7 Alabama	Superdome	FOX
AT&T Cotton	#11 Texas Tech	Dallas	Jan. 2, 2009, 2 p.m.
	#16 Mississippi	Cotton Bowl	FOX
GMAC	#25 Tulsa	Mobile, Ala.	Jan. 6, 2009, 8 p.m.
	#12 Ball State	Ladd-Peebles Stadium	ESPN
Valero Alamo	Northwestern	San Antonio	Dec. 29, 8 p.m.
	#13 Missouri	Alamodome	ESPN
Outback	South Carolina	Tampa, Fla.	Jan. 1, 2009, 11 a.m.
	#14 Iowa	Raymond James Stadium	ESPN
Capital One	Michigan State	Orlando, Fla.	Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m.
	#15 Georgia	Florida Citrus Bowl	ABC
Pacific Life Holiday	#17 Oklahoma State	San Diego	Dec. 30, 8 p.m.
	#20 Oregon	Qualcomm Stadium	ESPN
Meineke Car Care	#18 North Carolina	Charlotte, N.C.	Dec. 27, 1 p.m.
	#22 West Virginia	Bank of America Stadium	ESPN
Pioneer Las Vegas	#19 BYU	Las Vegas	Dec. 20, 8 p.m.
	Arizona	Sam Boyd Stadium	ESPN
Brut Sun	Oregon State	El Paso, Texas	Dec. 31, 2 p.m.
	#21 Pittsburgh	Sun Bowl	CBS
FedEx Orange	#23 Virginia Tech	Miami	Jan. 1, 2009, 8:30 p.m.
	Cincinnati	Dolphin Stadium	FOX
Champs Sports	#24 Florida State	Orlando, Fla.	Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m.
	Wisconsin	Florida Citrus Bowl	ESPN
OTHER POSITIVE B POINT TEAMS
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces	Houston	Fort Worth, Texas	Dec. 31, Noon
	Air Force	Amon G. Carter Stadium	ESPN
BOWL SUBDIVISION
EagleBank Bowl	Wake Forest	Washington, D.C.	Dec. 20, 11 a.m.
	Navy	RFK Stadium	ESPN
New Mexico	Colorado State	Albuquerque	Dec. 20, 2:30 p.m.
	Fresno State	University Stadium	ESPN
St. Petersburg	South Florida	St. Petersburg. Fla.	Dec. 20, 4:30 p.m.
	Memphis	Tropicana Field	ESPN2
R+L Carriers New Orleans	Southern Miss	New Orleans	Dec. 21, 8:15 p.m.
	Troy	Superdome	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii	Hawaii	Honolulu	Dec. 24, 8 p.m.
	Notre Dame	Aloha Stadium	ESPN
Motor City	Central Michigan	Detroit	Dec. 26, 8 p.m.
	Florida Atlantic	Ford Field	ESPN
Emerald	California	San Francisco	Dec. 27, 8 p.m.
	Miami (FL)	AT&T Park	ESPN
Independence	Louisiana Tech	Shreveport, La.	Dec. 28, 8:15 p.m.
	Northern Illinois	Independence Stadium	ESPN
Papajohns.com	Rutgers	Birmingham, Ala.	Dec. 29, 3 p.m.
	NC State	Legion Field	ESPN
Roady's Humanitarian	Nevada	Boise, Idaho	Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m.
	Maryland	Bronco Stadium	ESPN
Texas	Central Michigan	Houston	Dec. 30, 8 p.m.
	Rice	Reliant Stadium	NFL Network
Gaylord Hotels Music City	Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tenn.	Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m.
	Boston College	LP Field	ESPN
Insight	Kansas	Tempe, Ariz.	Dec. 31, 5:30 p.m.
	Minnesota	Sun Devil Stadium	NFL Network
Chick-fil-A	LSU	Atlanta	Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m.
	Georgia Tech	Georgia Dome	ESPN
Konica Minolta Gator	Nebraska	Jacksonville, Fla.	Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m.
	Clemson	Jacksonville Municipal Stadium	CBS
AutoZone Liberty	Kentucky	Memphis, Tenn.	Jan. 2, 2009, 5 p.m.
	East Carolina	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium	ESPN
International	Connecticut	Toronto	Jan. 3, 2009, Noon
	Buffalo	Rogers Centre	ESPN2

I need to remind myself that I *CAN* save long TV Tropes pages for reading at home.

Welp, I have once again had a disappointingly unproductive day.

But I have updated the lineal titles on the website. You may not have paid much attention to the Iron Bowl or the Florida-Florida State game, but it had two lineal title implications: first, the SEC Title Game will unify the 2004 Auburn-Utah and 2008 BCS titles (finally, the two SEC titles actually get unified!), and second, there will be no need for a 2009 BCS title because the unified Auburn-Utah title will be at stake in the National Title Game.

More stating the obvious: if Oklahoma wins the Big 12 Title Game and goes on to play for the national title, it'll merge Auburn-Utah with Princeton-Yale, and we'll be left with all of two lineal titles. Which is nowhere near as fun, especially when one is the safely-ignorable 2007 Boise State title (unless Utah loses their bowl). Our last hope may be for Boise and Ball States to continue undefeated...

Hey, I wasn't going to make the strip slip to the morning again.

I may be spending the night at a relative's, but nonetheless I'm still posting the new college football rankings (long-overdue, as always) and updating the lineal titles!

Now if only I could take care of that nagging college football schedule...

Details about changes to my college football playoff should be coming by the time next week's rankings come out, including a major change I'm considering compared to last year.

New College Football Rankings and Lineal Title Updates

The new college football rankings are up, as are both lineal titles, including an update to my NFL lineal title history, which had never been updated with the Steelers' lineal title win. More to come.

Quick notes

I guarantee the rankings and college football schedule will be up later tonight! Probably around the time of the new strip. In the meantime, the lineal titles are updated to tide you over.

College Football Schedule: Week 9

The BCS standings may be out, but my College Football Rankings are still the rankings you see on the schedule. I've also updated the lineal titles, including a change in the NFL lineal title, despite Freehostia being a little kinky at the moment. Apologies for putting this out now when Ohio-Temple is already underway. All times Eastern.

Top 25 Games
#6 *Oklahoma State	@	#1 Texas	3:30	ABC
#2 USC	@	Arizona	7 PT	FSN
#3 Penn State	@	#9 Ohio State	8 PM	ABC
#4 Oklahoma	@	Kansas State	12:30	FSN
#24 Kentucky	@	#5 *Florida	12:30	R'com/Y'hoo
Central Florida	@	#7 Tulsa	8 PM SU	ESPN
#8 *Alabama	@	Tennessee	7:45	ESPN
#10 Texas Tech	@	#21 Kansas	Noon	ESPN
Colorado	@	#11 Missouri	6:30	FSN
#12 Georgia	@	LSU	3:30	CBS
Wyoming	@	#13 TCU	6 PM	mtn.
Eastern Michigan	@	#14 Ball State	Noon	CSD.TV
#16 Boise State	@	San Jose State	9 PM FR	ESPN2
Virginia	@	#17 Georgia Tech	3:30	ESPNU
#25 Boston College	@	#18 North Carolina	Noon	Raycom
UNLV	@	#20 BYU	2 PM	mtn.
#22 Minnesota	@	Purdue	Noon	ESPN Classic
Baylor	@	#23 Nebraska	12:30	VS.
Watchlist and Other Positive B Point Teams
Duke	@	Vanderbilt	3 PM
South Florida	@	Louisville	3:30	BEN (ESPN+)
Rutgers	@	Pittsburgh	3:30	ESPN360
Michigan State	@	Michigan	3:30	ABC/ESPN2
Virginia Tech	@	Florida State	3:30	ABC/ESPN2
Bowling Green	@	Northern Illinois	4 PM	CSN/CBSCS XXL
Fresno State	@	Utah State	3 PM	KAIL/KJZZ/CSN W
This Week's Other HD Games
Ohio	@	Temple	8 PM TU	ESPN2
Auburn	@	West Virginia	7:30 TH	ESPN
New Mexico	@	Air Force	8 PM TH	CBS CS
Illinois	@	Wisconsin	Noon	ESPN2
Wake Forest	@	Miami (FL)	Noon	ESPNU
Northwestern	@	Indiana	Noon	BTN
SMU	@	Navy	3:30	CBS CS
Middle Tenn. St.	@	Mississippi State	7 PM	ESPNU
Notre Dame	@	Washington	8 PM	ESPN2
Big 12
Texas A&M	@	Iowa State	7 PM	FCS
SEC
Mississippi	@	Arkansas	7 PM	PPV
ACC
NC State	@	Maryland	3:30	ESPN360
Big East
Cincinnati	@	Connecticut	Noon	BEN (ESPN+)
MAC
Central Michigan	@	Toledo	Noon	ESPN+
Kent State	@	Miami (OH)	3:30	ONN/CSD.TV
MWC
Colorado State	@	San Diego State	9:30	mtn.
C-USA
Rice	@	Tulane	3 PM
Southern Miss	@	Memphis	8 PM	CBS CS
Pac-10
UCLA	@	California	3:30	ABC
Oregon	@	Arizona State	7 PT
WAC
New Mexico State	@	Idaho	5 PM	Altitude/CSD.TV
Nevada	@	Hawaii	9 PT	KAME/PPV
Sun Belt
Florida Atlantic	@	Louisiana-Monroe	7 PM	ESPN+
Troy	@	North Texas	7 PM	CSD.TV
Bowl Subdivision
Louisiana Tech	@	Army	1 PM	ESPN360

Important notice regarding both Morgan Wick Sports and Sandsday

Freehostia's servers are moving to a new data center in the name of better performance, which means I can't make any changes to the web site in the meantime. I never did get around to updating the lineal titles; the Princeton-Yale title is now Oklahoma State's after their upset defeat of Missouri (potentially torturing Texas by delaying their shot a week), the 2008 BCS title is now in the hands of Florida, and the NFL lineal title is in the hands of the upset-scoring Cleveland Browns. Hopefully this won't affect the release of next week's rankings.

Obviously this also means for the remainder of the week, you'll need to hit up Da Blog to catch the latest strips.

Did I waste this weekend or what?

Posting the updated lineal titles now because I can. Looks like LSU will finally be defending against a half-decent team this week in Auburn. Georgia shouldn't slouch either because for the second straight week a title defense is on ABC's Saturday Night Football. USC has the week off and Missouri might as well, especially since they DO have a week off NEXT week. Three of the four title-holders' next defenses are on national television.

I haven't done a lick of work to set up the infrastructure for the college football rankings, which need to be up... next week. Yikes. AND I need to do, you know, actual productive things. AND I'm falling behind on my other plans for Da Blog as well. God I suck.

A major change to the ad model

After giving it some thought, I have made several important changes to the ad model. Two primary concerns are leading me to adopt an alternative strategy to the one I was considering. First, my sidebar is too narrow to accomodate a skyscraper ad, so the largest ad size the sidebar will accomodate is a square ad. Second, my plans for a square ad were originally to have four a page - but I've recently started wondering if that's exactly the best approach for a site with basically no visitors.

Those concerns, plus the fact that my attempts to let people know they're better off bidding on my premier ad have mostly resulted in depressing bidding on the Standard ad without increasing bidding on my Premier ad (which STILL isn't topping the Standard ad's rates), have led me to change my ad strategy for Da Blog as well. So on the right side, you will see space for two square ads. Those are NOT in the same ad box. One of them is an ad that also appears on the rest of the Morgan Wick sites, the other is technically the same ad box Da Blog has had since August, only it's now a square box. If you have previously bid on the standard skyscraper box your bid is now null and void and you must bid again with a square ad. To get the best bang for your buck with your square ad, you should be bidding on the top Morgan Wick box, but if you have a lower budget and can't afford the top box you can still reach most of the same people with the bottom Da Blog box (although the top Premier box will still be a better investment in most circumstances, and now it's bigger!). I've also put advertisements for Sandsday in both of the Da Blog-specific boxes that will run if there are no bids otherwise.

If that's a bit confusing, don't worry. I've created an advertising FAQ on the Web site that aims to put the answers to any questions you may have - and links to every one of my ad boxes - in one place. That includes not only the ad that appears across the Web site, but a new ad I've created just for Sandsday. I'm still debating what to do with the rest of the site, including possibly committing the forbidden act of using Google Adsense.

While I'm at it, I've also added a new item to the Around the Horn Drinking Game, fixed some buggy links on Sandsday, and updated the NFL Lineal Title. I'm starting to think I should study Javascript more too... PHP doesn't seem to work on Freehostia for files whose extensions aren't .php, so I can't use it to create a dynamic sidebar unless I rename all my files, and it seems to require the use of Javascript to obtain the user's screen resolution, which would be nice for fixing one of Sandsday's biggest problems, the inability to be viewed properly at 800x600 resolution.

Okay.

The Football section of the site is up just in time for the official start of NFL season. I have a buttload of other things I'm working on at the moment and not much time to get it in, so here's this to tide you over.

OMG! It's football season! Our lives have meaning!

Who cares about those amateur college scrubs? THE league of record in America is the National Football League, and Da Blog and Morgan Wick's football site is ready with complete team coverage there as well!

Start with the NFL Lineal Title; as I said last week, it's analogous to the college football lineal titles, but because of the NFL's schedule structure there's rarely more than one at a time, and never more than two. I need to explain something that I forgot to make clear last week: Split titles in the college football lineal title arise from teams going undefeated, or winning the BCS Title Game (which is why LSU gets a new lineal title this year despite not going undefeated). Obviously, it's exceedingly rare for an NFL team to go undefeated, so what happens instead is that split titles are created when the title holder doesn't make the playoffs. Obviously, that's rather rare as well, and the Patriots nabbed the lineal title on their march to an almost-perfect season, so the Giants start the season with the title this year and will defend it against Washington tonight on NBC.

Speaking of which, starting Week 3 or 4, I'll start my weekly SNF Flex Schedule Watch, which was perhaps the prime contributor of traffic to Da Blog last year, before it was taken over by webcomics. I correctly predicted the Week 12, 14, 15, and 17 games that were moved to primetime as part of NBC's flexible scheduling, only missing Weeks 11, 13, and 16. I had thought I did the Flex Schedule Watch on Tuesdays last year, but it was actually a Wednesday feature last year so it's a Wednesday feature this year.

There is a third concept that I used last year: the "SuperPower Rankings", my experiment in creating a set of "super-power rankings" from the power rankings produced by the eight leading sports sites (ESPN, CBS, Fox, NBC, SI, Yahoo, USA Today, and Sporting News - Yahoo produced two rankings). It proved to be way too much work, so I'm not doing it this year, but I leave the concept open for someone else to pick up the gauntlet.

Thoughts on the Super Bowl of the Ultimate Answer

I was going to write a post that explored what might have happened if Brett Favre hadn't thrown an INT in OT of the NFC Championship Game, which would have basically resulted in the greatest Super Bowl in history no contest, but I came under the weather in the middle of last week, and I can't really concentrate on much of anything under such circumstances.

As it is, this game is definitely one of the greatest Super Bowls in history, but I'm not sure it's the hands-down greatest. Part of it is also part of the reason I didn't want to coronate Super Bowl XXXVIII, which XLII is definitely greater than: the slowness of scoring in the first quarter, in this case the entire first half and third quarter, during which most of the scoring effectively came in the first quarter.

But another part of it? No one (well, maybe except people in the Big Apple) is going to remember this Giants team as Super Bowl champions, unless maybe they turn it into a dynasty of their own. They're going to remember them as the team that dethroned the perfect Patriots.

The story writes itself fairly well, but I just can't shake the feeling that the better team did not win this game - that the Giants are champions more by dint of their role in a fantastic story, one that really stretches out over the whole season, than by any actual achievement. Part of it is the rather nondescript nature of the Giants. There's a definite story surrounding Eli Manning but he needs to show that he really does have his brother's genes in subsequent seasons. It's nice that Michael Strahan, Plaxico Burress, and company get rings, but none of them are stars the way the quarterbacks and, sometimes, backs and receivers are. Green Bay would have had a better story: Brett Favre winning a Super Bowl in the twilight of his career and almost certainly pulling a Jerome Bettis afterwards. (Which is why I have less of an issue with the Steelers' Super Bowl XL win than the Giants' win here, despite the officiating controversies in the former game and the fact that I myself am a Seattlite.) The Cowboys... well, if this were a youth league or even college, a Cowboys-Patriots Super Bowl would basically have been a ready-written sports movie. But the Giants... the Giants are boring. Let's face it.

About today's strip: I did, of course, make the strip before the game, but it did cross my mind that the Giants could win the game. I decided I would keep the first panel regardless of the outcome because... well, you'll see when you see it.

I personally would have preferred a Pats-Packers Super Bowl...

I mean, that would have basically guaranteed the best rating in Super Bowl history, right? A quest for perfection combined with the most popular and revered QB in America who might have a chance to end his career Elway-style with a Super Bowl win? Over a team a significant proportion of the country does not like because they think Tom Brady is too much of a celebrity, Bill Belichick is too inhumanly cold, and the whole team cheats. (As recently as Christmas I got a comment attacking me for my Patriots Run to 19-0, which has been updated by the way. Belatedly.)

Why I haven't put up the results of the Golden Bowl (and a few other news and notes)

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't posted the results of the first Golden Bowl between LSU and USC, and it's for the same reason I decided to drop the SuperPower Rankings. The Golden Bowl tournament turned out to be a lot less fun than I had hoped.

For almost every game, I had to pore over the numbers and probably reached a lot of wrong conclusions. I found myself breathing sighs of relief when the two people who voted on the second and third rounds agreed. It wasn't as time consuming as the SuperPower Rankings but it left me with a sense of dread entering each round.

I had been planning on having a grandiose, John-Facenda-esque description of the Golden Bowl, but I barely managed to work up the knowledge or desire to write any description at all throughout the tournament. I have a feeling I would have fallen well short. Not only is a college football playoff far from an original idea, but others are doing much of what I intended to do a lot better than I would have.

That said, unlike the SuperPower Rankings, I'm still doing this next year. I like the Golden Bowl name, I'm hoping Da Blog grows enough in the next year that I won't have to break ties at all, and I feel that a lot of simulated playoffs or proposed brackets blindly follow the BCS standings. I've heard it argued that a plus-one system would have ignored Georgia or USC in favor of Virginia Tech or Oklahoma; what that ignores is that a plus one would have forced the pollsters to pay more attention to the top four the way they pay attention to the top two now, which likely means #5 Georgia would have gotten past V-Tech or the Sooners, since they arguably had a stronger case for a national title shot than either. (Yes, I know V-Tech was my number 1 seed.) A true simulated playoffs that follows close to what the reality probably would be should follow the NCAA guidelines.

So, this ends the brief spurt of productivity from Da Blog from football. Sure, we're a few steps away from the Super Bowl - the Patriots just blew past their 17th team, as reflected on the site - but that's a fairly small part of what we do around here.

No, don't run away! Come back! I know a lot of you are here for the football, so what can I do to get you to stick around?

Well, let's start with my 100 Greatest Movies Project, which has been described in the past on the off chance you came here before it was cool. If you happen to be a fan of the movies, and not just the standard popcorn fare but all the classics from Hollywood's golden age to the present day, I could use you to explain to the masses why they better recognize. If you want to write tributes and descriptions for Hollywood's greatest films, let me know in the comments or at mwmailsea at yahoo dot com.

But I have another plan to induce the teeming masses to come here. And stay here. I have plans for a new regular feature that I have high hopes for, one that could potentially attract a much larger audience than what I've achieved so far. One that could start as soon as tonight.

What is it? Well, let's just say you can expect to see a lot of this sometime soon:

Next Stop on the Road to 19-0

Because 16-0 was only ever really a stopover on the road to 19-0, the road resumes this week with the Jaguars and the requisite logo has been added.

Patriots Reach 16-0

And the web site has been updated accordingly.

Quick note

The web site is updated with the Patriots' quest for 19-0.

That is all.