Random Observations

The Presidential race is interesting and exciting. It looks to me, right now, that the Republicans are going to choose between Romney or McCain and the Democrats will choose between Hillary Clinton or Obama. But who knows? I've never seen anything like this. Indiana's primary isn't until May and it MAY actually mean something this time around.

I was saddened at the death of Heath Ledger. Very sad and such a tragic loss. I was also really annoyed on how the story was handled. First news reports said that there were drugs and he was naked. Later it came out that he had pneumonia. It could have been a drug interaction with the illness or drugs interacting with one another. The drugs they found were legal prescription drugs that were prescribed to him and did not seem to be out of the realm of reason. So, why report this? And why report that he was naked? Sordid journalism to be sure.

I saw the movie Juno and loved it. It was a movie with intelligent dialogue. The characters were quirky and interesting. It was enjoyable.

I missed football this week. Football is my favorite sport and it's always a loss when the season is over. This year, however, my Giants are still playing! Next week is Super Bowl Sunday and I am excited. The Giants, of course, are huge underdogs and have no chance. Perfect!

The swimsuit competition for the Miss America Pageant has changed. My favorite beauty pageant movie was Little Miss Sunshine. That flick seemed to capture the reality of these pageants.

I think I'm going to pass on the Rambo movie. The first movie, First Blood, was actually a very good movie. It didn't need a sequel. It didn't need the second sequel. It doesn't need this one. Sly need to come up with another character besides Rocky and Rambo. The originals were great, but there are limits.

The Oakland Raiders and the Washington Redskins are both having coaching turmoils. Al Davis doesn't like his coach and Daniel Snyder's coach, Joe Gibbs, retired again. Gibbs is a fine man and a fine coach who worked for a goof. It's tumored that Davis is going to ax is coach and the 'Skins are looking to interview a coordinator either from the Giants or the Patriots. They'd be crazy to go to either of these black holes of coaching positions. That's why Jason Garrett would not go to the Ravens or the Falcons. Better to have a decent job with a strong franchise, then to become the head coach of a franchise that will fail.

The Raiders and the Redskins ought to look at Bobby Petrino. They'd all deserve each other.

A lot.

Finally, I don't know if anyone realizes this, but Bobby Petrino is a college version of Bill Parcells.

Bill Parcells coached the Giants to two Super Bowls. After his prized coordinator, Bill Belichick, heir apparent in East Rutherford, left for the Browns, Parcells abruptly quit the Giants leaving them in the lurch.

He moved to the Patriots. Started building them up and quit.

He then moved to the Jets. I'd say he started to build them up, but these are the Jets. Impossible. He jilted the Jets and ended up in Dallas.

Romo, of course fumbles a snap, the Cowboys lost (last year), and Parcells quit. Now he's in the front office at Miami.

He's a smart football guy and knows how to win. Ultimately you want someone with maturity to lead you and he's not that.