I am totally out of touch with American TV audiences. I mostly just watch cable channels like the History Channel and the Travel Channel. Other than the CBS comedies on Monday nights, Survivor and/or the Office on Thursday nights, and college football on Saturdays, I don't watch much TV.
Not surprisingly, I don't know most of the shows that won Emmys. Emmy-winning shows I have never seen: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Damages, In Treatment, Samantha Who?, John Adams, Recount, Cranford, House, Pushing Daisies, Mr. Warmth. Shows I have seen very few times: 30 Rock, The Amazing Race.
I enjoyed seeing Survivor, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and the Academy Awards. That's it for the list of winners I've watched more than once or twice.
How unfair is it that the Oscars can win an Emmy, but the Emmys cannot win an Oscar? Could the Emmys give themselves an Emmy? That would be cheating, wouldn't it?
I watched Sunday night's last-ever Yankee game at Yankee Stadium. I am slightly bummed that I never got to see a baseball game at Yankee Stadium. It was fun watching players scooping up infield dirt after the game. It would have been even more fun watching 18 idiots getting arrested for trying to steal part of the stadium.
I did not watch the Raiders or the Patriots lose on Sunday, but I would have liked to. The Dolphins had lost 20 of 21. The Patriots had won 21 straight regular season games. Can you believe it? The score of 38-13 was no shock. That the Dolphins weren't on the short end was a shock. I had no idea how much the Patriots' defense depended on Tom Brady. I like the fact that a Trojan plays for the Patriots, but Matt Cassel never did start at game for USC. Until two weeks ago, his last start had been 7 or 8 years ago for Chatsworth High School.
Jay Schroeder started one game at UCLA but went 61-38 and made a Pro Bowl for the Redskins. Matt Cassel looks like he's no Jay Schroeder. One of my buddies joked last week that Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart would trade places with Matt Cassel now. That joke isn't funny anymore. Trade off.
Can you believe that after just three weeks, the number of undefeated NFL teams is down to Dallas, the New York Giants, Denver, Tennessee, Baltimore and Buffalo. The geezers from the unbeaten 1972 Miami team might be popping corks before Halloween.
Winless teams include just the Rams, Lions, Chiefs, Texans, Bengals, Browns. I hope the Rams stay perfect. Can you believe that Christmas Eve 1994 was the last time the Rams and Raiders played in Los Angeles?
Can you believe (getting old, that line is) Did anyone else notice that Virginia has played two of its three games this season against teams currently ranked #1? They lost to USC, but beat the #1 FCS team, Richmond, 16-0.
In their last two games, USC has surrendered just 10 points, which is best in the nation and happens to match the offense put up by Norm Chow's UCLA offense. People talk now about BYU's winning streak, but Norm Chow's winning streak was 23 games going into that 59-0 loss.
To try to sell more tickets, UCLA put an ad in the Fresno sports page this week. It urged people to buy tickets so they could say they were there. Essentially, what they are saying is "Fresno State fans, your team is going to have an epic ass-kicking of UCLA on Saturday. You don't want to miss this."
That might be the dumbest college football ad I've ever seen. Close seconds and thirds: UCLA's preseason "The Football Monopoly in Los Angeles is Officially Over", and, after the fluke win over Tennessee "There is still room on the bandwagon."
Not that USC going unbeaten is any sort of sure bet. In the past three decades, only two Pac 10 teams have finished unbeaten and untied. USC 2004 and Washington 1991. The odds are that USC is going to get tripped up somewhere. I hope I'm wrong though.
Have you ever noticed that the question "Why do you always think you're right?" is always being uttered by someone who is trying to convince someone else that they are wrong?
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