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The Daily Dose/February 2, 2009
By Gaylon Kent
The Writer's Shack
Notes from around the Human Experience...
GOD, WE LOVE OUR STEELERS: Official Writer's Shack fave, our Pittsburgh Steelers became the first team to win six (6) Super Bowls with a resounding 27-24 victory over those goddamed Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII Sunday.
Mr. Holmes, History On Line Two: There was never any doubt, either. Oh, sure, the Cardinals made it interesting with a lame 64-yard touchdown with 2:37 left to take the lead, but Santonio Holmes pulled down a touchdown pass with 35 seconds left, the type of catch that left us wondering, again, if NFL wide receivers aren't the best athletes on the planet.
Shows What We Know: While the finish was brilliant, most of the rest of the game was forgettable. Their were clutch, stupid penalties, and we can't be the only ones who thought the game was over when James Harrison intercepted a Kurt Warner pass thrown to him as if he were the intended receiver on the goal line and ran it back for a touchdown to end the first half and give Pittsburgh a 17-7 lead.
Disclaimer: We gotta be honest: The four hours we spendt watching the Super Bowl will constitutes about 75 percent of our tee vee watching this year. We picked up an hour or so watching the Rose Bowl earlier this year, and we might sneak in some of the Army/Navy game. That's it, though. We have been tee vee free for years hear at the Writer's Shack.
One of the advantages to this life is you grow accustomed to not being advertised to, which, frankly, is a nice way of life.
So were we the only ones noticed how violent the Super Bowl commercials were? Good gravy, people were hit by buses and smacked around and blown up. Even a koala bear was punched, and if that's not a sign of a society being flushed down the crapper, I don't know what is. WWe punched a koala bear! What marketing wizard thought that a koala bear getting punched was mission critical to getting me to try his lousy product?
Mr. Roethlisberger, Canton On LIne Three: Pittsburgh's victory also mean's Kurt Warner is going to have to hustle to get into Canton. Had the Cardinals won we suspect this Hall of Fame pass would have been stamped as a matter of course. Of course, Warner did lead them to a late touchdown to give them the lead, so they were in position to win, but Warner doesn't play defense.
Meanwhile: Sculptors at the Pro Football Hall of Fame are starting to get their tools out and studying pictures of Ben Roethlisberger. Just in case.
HIATUS: This will be the last Daily Dose for a while, dear readers. It's a couple days late, but our annual February hiatus will begin at the conlusion of this column.
As usual, we will use the time to work on a book project. The message boards will remain open, of course, and we can't deny the possibility of a new Chuck Baldwin column - subject to him sending us something readable - but were not making any promises, either.
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ON THIS DATE: In 1653, the city of New Amsterdam is incorporated. It would change its name to New York City in 1665.
I Could've Sworn There Was A Club Med Or Something Here: Alexander Selkirk is rescued from an uninhabited island - except for him - west of Chile in the South Pacific on this date in 1709. He had been on the island for over four years, left there by the expedition he had been with after he apparently had become a pain in the neck and more or less dared them to leave him there. It has been said Selkirk's story was the inspiration for the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Isn't There A Law We Can Overturn? One day after meeting with only three justices, the United States Supreme Court has a quorum for the first time on this date in 1790 in New York City. Its first session would last until February 10. The court did not hear a case, despite the fact those rascals in Congress had been in session for almost a year and had already passed legislation regarding the administration of oaths for various people and passed a tariff act. They had also created the War, State and Treasury departments and passed the Judiciary Act of 1789 which organized, among other things, the US Supreme Court.
Play Ball! The National League is formed on this date in 1876 with teams in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Hartford, New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville. 133 years later, the National League still has teams in five of those cities, but the Chicago Cubs are the only team that is been in the same city the whole time. The Atlanta Braves, who started in Boston and moved to Milwaukee before moving south, are the only other original franchise still in the league.
Thought For The Day: In short, I am convinced, by both faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Answer To The Last Trivia Question: The last trivia question was rhetorical!
Today's Stumper: We're on hiatus for a month. Rather than keep you hanging for the entire month, we are not offering a question today.
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