"Super Duper DeFlation!"

De-Flated...

Good "Super Duper" Day after, Monday morning, y'all.

I'm feeling rather deflated about the entire game... Though I love football, the game, especially the NFL, is impossible to watch nowadays.

Congrats to all the teams that made it to the playoffs, and, I guess, congrats to the teams playing in the Super Bowl, but I have no real interest in the outcome this year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't these two teams in the Bowl game four years ago?

C'est la vie...

What’s the problem w NFL games nowadays?

I never watch it (well that’s a lie, I do watch the Super Bowl each year maybe the last few innings of it anyway

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Ben Bensen III

It's a bit difficult to explain to those that really don't follow it on a game to game way. There are way too many changes by the networks to accommodate the female audience.

It's like a boy's club house that displays a sign which says,"No Girls Allowed." Sure enough some female is gonna want to know what's going on and why can't I join.

It doesn't take long before they start making changes and accepting the "softer side".

Understand, I am not against football loving women's participation. It's the NFL and the major networks need for a bigger audience that has caused the slow decline ... As far back as the late 1980's!

Author

Ben Bensen III

But, that answer is only part of the problem. There is now sports betting which I am vehemently against. One example is the pass interference rule which is too nebulous and ripe with fraud. Games can be won and lost on a simple play juried by lawyers in New York and the constant excuses, injury timeouts and such provides for way too many commercial breaks.

There is no flow in the game of football nowadays!

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Dorothy S Willse I have to totally agree!

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"Candelabra Cactus!"

Cactus!

So funny… Yesterday, the ice that formed on both cars had me totally locked out. Everything was incased in ice, frozen shut! Using some warm water helped me, just enough, to get into the driver’s side door, but it took a lot of patience and the sun to melt a portion of the windshield to be able to drive.The temperature gauge in the car registered at first 21º.

Today’s a bit different.

Three days ago, I started up sketch season for 2024 at Giddy Up by drawing a new plant that replaced the white poinsettias. It is a cactus called the Candelabra which does have thorns but tastefully placed at each little "leaf." Kinda looks like something piano player, “Liberace” would have had atop his instrument if he, and his brother, George, was into that sort of green thumb thing.

First cup!

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"Reading Is Fundamental"

The family that reads together...

 Good "MLK" Monday Morning, all bodies.

Mended a fence board yesterday and felt like I needed every damn tool necessary to complete a simple task. If this keeps up, I'mma need a fancy Roy Rogers design tool belt...

Nothing less will do.

Also, found some time to play around with a few "Reading Is Fundamental" concepts. No tool belt necessary 'cept my electric eraser!

First cup...

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