I swept my NFL selections this weekend at crowd picks.com - the wrong way. I did not hit in any category of the two games: winner, spread, over/under -- 0 for six. And people say perfection is impossible. I had no clue this year. I will not finish higher than 40th, after finishing tenth last year and qualifying for an Amazon gift certificate. I picked up the Seattle-San Francisco game about halfway through the third quarter. I was surprised at the poor play. There were so many unforced errors, bobbled exchanges, wildly errant passes, stupid penalties and typically bizarre clock management. And, of course, there was the thuggish idiocy of that DB who touts himself as the best in the game. At least it was exciting. I’m pleased in that this is the Super match-up I prefer. I don’t see how the Seahawks can win with that bumbling offense. Then again, I didn’t think they would prevail yesterday. I suppose I’ll be rooting for Seattle, as I always like to see the team which hasn’t won a championship win, but it’s hard to pull for a creep like the aforementioned player, although I’m sure the Broncos have a few too. I’ve always enjoyed Pete Carroll’s positive approach to coaching, although I was dismayed at the cheating he did at USC and the condition in which he left the program, which went on probation. It seems Orange Crush will be playing the role of the good guys Super Bowl Sunday.
Also in football: I just perused the Top 100 5-Star recruits at Yahoo Sports. Two Brooklyn boys made the list: WR Curtis Samuel of Erasmus Hall, who has signed with Ohio St., and DT Thomas Holley, who signed originally with Penn St. and changed his mind when head coach Bill O'Brien left the Nittany Lions for the Houston Texans. Holley will attend Florida. I wonder if the list had ever before had two NYC players, let alone Brooklyn boys. Kudos, guys.
I feel as if the stock market is mocking me. Only one of my 16 holdings was up on the day, Dupont, three cents to the good. Meanwhile, Twitter, which I refused to pay $40 for, was up another $1.63 to $62.20.
I was visited separately by the triumvirate today: Political Man, Mountain Man and Occupy Jack. The first, thankfully, commented only on the weather, the coming cold snap; the second went into his typical negative rant on the universal corruption that exists in government and society; and the third provided an antidote to that with his happy dissent. In fact, Jack dropped a nugget I hadn’t heard before. When communism collapsed, he wrote a six page letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, instructing on the transformation to capitalism, warning not to follow the American model, and he got a response - delivered by the FBI! He was interrogated and he convinced them he was a simple, independent dissident. Anyone who took the time to talk with him would see he’s harmless, non-violent. He is, above all, a character, an original, a nut. When a gentleman in security garb stopped and checked out the Russian books I had on display, Jack engaged him in conversation in that foreign tongue. The only word I understood was “rubles.” I chuckled and told the guy I accepted only dollars, and he said: “I pay him rubles, not you.” He wound up buying three thrillers. Spasibo, sir, and thanks also to the other kind folks who bought books.
Vic's 4th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic’s Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
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