Blindside

The Sugar Bowl on Friday night was so bad that I was channel surfing while the game was going on. Most of the time if I am watching any game I'll check the other channels out during the commercials.

I ran across ABC's 20/20 show about Michael Oher and if you didn't see if it was worth watching. Michael Oher is the black kid from the wrong side of Memphis who was taken into the home of a rich Memphis white family when he was in the eighth grade. Oher through their help qualified for College and became an All American Left tackle from Mississippi. April he was the first draft pick of the Baltimore Ravens who gave him a five year 13.5 million dollar contract.

20/20 dedicated their entire show to him Friday night. Saturday afternoon my entire family took in the movie and I highly recommend it to all.

I pulled hard for ECU tonight but I would have to say that as weird a game as you will ever see. The temperature was hovering near 25 degrees and all the kickers had a hard time kicking the ball whether it was kickoffs,punts or field goals. ECU lost when they missed three field goals, two in the last two minutes of the game and then one in overtime.

You know you think of Bowl games as rewards for good play but to have to play a game in 25 degree weather as ECU/Arkansas or in the mud like LSU/Penn State isn't much reward.

Sunday is the last day of the regular season of the NFL. WRAL.com has had a pickem contest during the NFL season for several years. Looking back I am always near 62% on picks every year. Most years that put me in the top 30% but not this year. Going into the last regular season game tomorrow I am at 63% but this year I'm in the 70% range. Where has everyone else got so smart.