Very Random Thoughts - November 2018

• "Tactical" pants are now a thing. Do we need tactical skirts? How about tactical undies?
• I used to be able to tell which college football teams were playing by their uniforms. Not necessarily so nowadays. With all the Nike, Under Armour, and adidas "special" uniforms, it's no longer obvious. 
• It seems that every college football team I follow plays at the same time on Saturdays. 
• If you don't believe in facts, then everything is an opinion. My opinion is that facts matter.
• Mass shootings are so common now that even the politicians don't bother with "Thoughts & Prayers" anymore. Not that a thought or a prayer ever stopped a bullet.
• I have no hope that our government will do anything about the epidemic of mass shootings. At least not until the majority of the population is either a family member, friend, or surviving victim of a mass shooting. The dead ones can't vote.
• Is it just me or do text messages to our children seem to be on a one, two, three-day delay? Sometimes maybe a week or infinity. 
• Black Friday sales now start in October. Too early? 
• According to TV commercials, PD (Peyronie's Disease) is the new ED (Erectile Dysfunction).
• Trump thinks you need an ID to buy cereal at the grocery store. Slightly out of touch with the common woman and man.
• Just when all the political campaign emails end, the shopping emails go into overdrive. 
• Has anyone ever learned anything in a postgame news conference? Cliches-R-Us and we've heard them all before. 
• The only good thing about Joe Tessitore doing Monday Night Football is that he no longer does SEC games. 
• Whatever happened to the coffin corner punt in football?
• It has been 55 years since JFK was assassinated. The day is still vivid to me. 
• How many TV shows have used the plot where the star had a twin or somebody who looked exactly like them? The other one was always a bad guy. 
• There will be 40 college bowl games this year. One more than last year because 39 is just not enough. They start on December 15th. 
• Remember when Christmas tree tinsel was made out of aluminum? We sometimes would salvage what we could from the tree and use it the following year. I also remember gathering up the scraps and rolling it into a metal ball. Can't do that with the plastic stuff around now.
• Is it just me, or do a lot of those big college football linemen look like they are in their mid 40's or older?
• Speaking of college sports, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell if it was a football or basketball game by looking at the score.

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