Thank you, Saints...

... for another great season. "Great season?" you ask. "They missed the playoffs after being picked the team to beat in the preseason."

Well, yes, but after starting the season 0 and 4, everyone had given up on them (please refer to earlier post dated Sunday October 7). However, the Saints managed to rebound from that huge hole to still be in contention for a playoff spot on the last weekend of the season. And they did that without Deuce, Reggie, Aaron, Marques and Mike.

Hey you Saints, thanks for all the great exciting action this season, and for keeping us in suspense about the playoffs until the last moment.

HOW COULD THEY?

I am deeply grieving today. We lost a great one, Benazir Bhutto, much too soon before she should have died. How could they just simply kill her? She was special.

I know that I really have no clue about Pakistan politics, but I have admired and have been entranced by Bhutto ever since she became Prime Minister of Pakistan twenty years ago, and actually gave birth while in office. I was saddened when she was forced from office on charges of alleged corruption.

How could she now meet the same fate as her late father, murdered by a citizen of the great state for which Benazir and her father had such great love and vision? It is just not fair. She should have had a chance to contest the current election to see if the majority wanted her back, or if maybe there was a possibility of a workable coalition.

I just cannot believe it. The beautiful, well educated, well spoken and affable Benazir Bhutto is suddenly gone, all because of some coward with a gun. This is indeed a great tragedy.

We will miss you, Benazir.

Duck, Duck?

As all other Anaheim Ducks fans, I am ecstatic that Scott Neidermayer has decided not to retire and will begin his season at the blueline this December.

Could this be the turning point in the Ducks' season and their quest for consecutive Stanley Cups?

Not a bad year

I cannot believe it. Everyone of my teams won this year. THIS YEAR! ALL IN THE SAME YEAR!

Anaheim Ducks, Manchester United Red Devils, Boston Red Sox, Florida Gators NCAA Men's Basketball; and now the Saskatchewan Roughriders! I guess the possible exception is the NFL, but even there, I have been hoping for the Indianapolis Colts to win it all if my numbers 1 and 2, the New Orleans Saints and the Oakland Raiders, didn't.

The Ducks fulfilled my boyhood dream, Manchester had not won since I began following English Premier League football and Boston was also thrilling after many earlier disappointments. I hoped for a repeat for the Gators for a whole season, and I have died with the Colts a few times. And, though I don't follow the CFL very closely, I have cheered for the Roughriders since I was a wee lad. How amazing they came through this year. How amazing everyone did!