NFL's Final Four

Indianapolis host the New York Jets today in a game of the upstarts taking on the Establishment. Isn't it ironic that the team that took out their starters and gave up on a perfect season now must beat the team they allowed to make the playoffs.

I still find it hard to see the Jets winning. Colts 24 Jets 13

I don't know why but the last couple of years of all this shedding tears to retire only to sell himself to the highest bidder makes me want to pull for the Saints over Brett Favre. Saints 38 Vikings 31.

If you are a NASCAR fan then the news this week that they are going to allow the drivers to hit each other to attract more viewers back to watching is humorous. I think NASCAR has lost the real reasons why attendance to races and tv ratings are down.

Those of you that don't know the TV ratings were down on NASCAR last year but the real losers were the vendors at races. The sell of caps and jackets was off 50% last year.

Having gone to many races in my life and I feel that I would fall into the Joe average NASCAR fan. Today in order to go to a race you can no longer get just one night in a motel but during race week it, is common to have to purchase Friday,Saturday and Sunday nights. The ticket itself has tripled. I can no longer go four to five times a year to races.

NASCAR has pushed the the average fan away for the all mighty dollars and allowing the drivers to wreck each other is ignoring the real problem. Since I don't go to races any more I very seldom watch a whole race on TV.

Like I suspected NC State was drubbed by Maryland Saturday, Duke and Wake were basketball winners.

I have been involved with a youth weekend at our church this weekend and have not been able to keep up with high school basketball as normal. I hear the Gryphons beat SouthWest Edgecombe by 29 75-46 but I did not find out about the girls. Tuesday night is Northern Nash.

There has to be a way to insure that Northern, Rocky Mount and Nash Central always play each other on Friday nights. I realize that might mean someone has to be creative with schedule making but I believe a schedule could be devised for that to happen.