Weekend Recap + Football thoughts

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

It was a good, albeit quiet weekend, with the family spending most of the time quietly inside due to the weather. My change to the media habits went over alright, with me having the most challenges to be honest. It was a mostly good football weekend.

Changing Habits

Kim was receptive to the idea of changing the family viewing habits, reducing TV and video game time. And we actually did alright for large chunks of the weekend. Saturday we (the boys & I) held on until about 1:00, at which point I sent the boys downstairs to watch cartoons while I watched football. But in the morning we played some games, they all played with the puppy outdoors (enjoying the brief moments of nice weather). Sunday afternoon We all took a break for a little while while I read and the kids played. So it was a nice change, I look forward to more time like it.

Daddy Hours

I opened up my game teaching time to both boys, until Daniel grew bored. I taught James a new game, one of my quasi-football board games. It was fun, it's a pretty basic game, and James got the hang of it pretty quick. I just had the inspiration that I could probably do a miniature game session with both boys over the holiday break and both of them might enjoy pushing some guys around the board more. Daniel is just not cerebral yet, he needs that tactile "these are my guys" approach to games. So that might be more fun for him. We'll see how it goes.

Football

College Football

Well I was mildly disappointed in Florida's loss to Alabama. I really like and admire Tebow and was hoping for him to have another big game on the big stage. That being said, there is no doubt in my mind that the best college football player in America is Suh from Nebraska (which is painful to admit). He is just an amazing player, and I don't think I can recall the last time I saw a Defensive Tackle dominate a football game quite like the game on Saturday night, I think Colt McCoy is still seeing number 93 coming at him.

Denver Broncos

Wow, what a great game, that was huge, to go into Arrowhead in December and just dominate the game in such a convincing fashion. Yes there were some mistakes, and I harbor no illusions about the Broncos ability to go into Indianapolis on Sunday and beat the Colts, but for now I can take this. I will accept that we have a much tougher team than we did last year, and that teams will have legitimate reasons to fear us in the future. And we might even get that 'team no one wants to play' tag in the playoffs this year.

St. Louis Rams

S.O.S.R. that's all I can say. (same Old Sorry Rams)