What Are They Thinking About?

The Schloss-Blog is wondering what some people are thinking about.

For instance, yahoo sports is asking ... is Jeopardy a sport?

Is it? There's a tournament of champions. You have to be smarter than, oh, Bill Belichick.

And it's now a competitive TV event - Sports Jeopardy - hosted by famed sportscaster Dan Patrick.

On Crackle.

WTF is Crackle?

Never mind, Look, Jeopardy is not a sport.

Or is it?

(Stick around to the end for the best rock 'n' roll Jeopardy songs of the 20th century, IMHO. Or are they?)

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In case you're wondering, and you're probably not, which is why we wonder for you, Tom Brady is so old (44) that he is older than all the other coaches who were still left in the NFC playoffs when this weekend began.

Older than Sean McVay of the Rams (35), who he faced this weekend; older than Matt LeFleur of the Packers (42), who can't seem to find a way to beat Brady when it counts; and older than Kyle Shanahan of the 49ers (42), who, IMHO, has the best chance to beat him.

There are players left who weren't born yet when Brady made his first playoff appearance.

The publication Athletic Pulse called Brady being older than all the other coaches, "Absurd." 

I call it genius.

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Before you accuse Nick Saban of being a heartless coach who puts winning ahead of everything, which he does, consider this:

He joined NBA Hall-of-Famer Jerry West and several other natives of West Virginia - former NFL star Darryl Talley and former commissioner of the NFL Paul Tagliabue - in signing a letter to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin to get off his high horse and vote to support the voting rights legislation that is pending in the Senate.

Saban is a West Virginia native. Manchin is an independently wealthy West Virginian who seems to be out of touch with his state's residents, the majority of whom favor passage of the voting rights bills pending in the Senate, including as many as 70 percent of Republicans, and in Arizona too, where Kyrsten Sinema is the other Democratic senator refusing to budge on changing the rules to pass the bills. Manchin is backed, however, by big-business campaign donors who like things the way they are. So is Sinema, by a list of Wall Street rock stars.

Saban, meanwhile, does have a heart. He wants what's best for America, not just what's best for his Alabama football team.

In that case, Roll Tide.

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My niece, Jennifer, in Denton, Texas, has been after me to mention her name in this column for years now and give her a shout-out on my radio show.

One down, Jennifer. One to go.

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I keep seeing these posts on Facebook that ask for opinions on sometimes common and sometimes uncommon things.

For instance, and I'm guilty of commenting on a few, I've seen: what goes with peanut butter (I hate peanut butter); what are the 10 best rock 'n' roll songs for or about motorcycle riders in the '80s (there are 10?); what line can you recite from a movie that doesn't give away the movie title (I said, "...ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?); name a state without a 'e' in it (I always say 'Confusion'); and what's your name based on the color of your eyes and the last thing you ate (I'm Blue Fry). These posts, I'm told by people who supposedly know, are by marketers looking to accumulate names of people who respond to these kinds of things - not that they're not smart enough not to (you got that, right?) - but to see who will respond to more sophisticated marketing prompts. 

And it works, usually.

But my fav post of that nature is this one: what are the five best rock 'n' roll songs of the previous millennium (I have mine - what do you have?)

I have, in no particular order: One (U2); Hey Jude (Beatles); Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin); Layla (Derek and the Dominos); and God Only Knows (Beach Boys), which Paul McCartney says is the best ever.

Well, what do you have?

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Get vaccinated and boostered, or boosternated, or whatever. Just do it. Protect those around you and those you love and maybe, just maybe, we'll have life back to close to normal someday.