Post by jptheprofessor on Jan 9, 2008 10:00:13 GMT -5
All this week on the 4:10 PM "Classic Rock Clip" contest, the prize is a regular sandwich coupon good at Dominic's of New York. Tuesday's correct answer was "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by Bob Seger.
Tuesday's 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" off the back of the rack was "TVC-15" by David Bowie, from his 1976 album Station to Station. That song supposedly originated out of a in-joke Bowie and Iggy Pop were sharing about a woman who got devoured by her television set. We played the song to celebrate Bowie's 61st birthday.
Well, the football season is pretty much over as far as I'm concerned. The Steelers exited the playoffs over the weekend, and in a way, I'm relieved. They were too banged up to make it deep into the playoffs, and had they beaten Jacksonville, I couldn't see them getting past New England or Indianapolis. Perhaps I'll be wrong, but I think all that Jacksonville won this past Saturday night was the privilege of getting rolled by the Patriots this weekend.
And college football's "national championship" was decided on Monday night, when LSU kicked Ohio State's butts in the BCS National Championship Game. Or as I call it, "BC-Mess!" If this past college football season wasn't the straw that broke the BCS' back and leads to a bonafide playoff system to determine a national champion, I don't know what else will do it! Out of the two-loss teams, though, I do agree that LSU should be number one, considering that both of their losses were triple-overtime losses to SEC teams that made it to bowl games. Although USC looked dominant in their rout of Illinois in the Rose Bowl, one of their losses was still to a putrid Stanford team. If I were ranking the final ten teams, it would look something like this...
#1 - LSU
#2 - USC
#3 - Missouri
#4 - Georgia
#5 - Kansas
#6 - West Virginia
#7 - Ohio State
#8 - Texas
#9 - Boston College
#10 - Oklahoma
And I didn't do badly in picking the bowl game winners, coming up 19-13 in my predictions, including picking LSU in the championship game. That's probably at least comparable to Coco the Monkey in the Friday Football forecasts!
And if you didn't catch the end of my Tuesday show, I was eagerly anticipating my culinary reward at the end of the day. Cooking in the crockpot at home was my latest edition of "JP's Five-Alarm Chili," and I decided to throw caution to the wind and try a few different ingredients this time around. This edition of chili included: cubed thin cut sirloin steak, cubed Case's pork roll patties (endorsed by our sister station WRTA's late-night talk show host Bruce Williams; I received a carton of patties as a Christmas gift), kidney beans and black beans, and four different kinds of peppers (chilis, hot red cherry, hot green and standard green bell peppers). I have since eaten two bowls of the results, and d**n WAS THAT GOOD! Despite all the peppers, the chili was spicy but not volcanic, and washed down with a can of ice-cold Genny, it was a supper for champions! And thus far, the after-effects haven't been bad, either!
Tuesday's 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" off the back of the rack was "TVC-15" by David Bowie, from his 1976 album Station to Station. That song supposedly originated out of a in-joke Bowie and Iggy Pop were sharing about a woman who got devoured by her television set. We played the song to celebrate Bowie's 61st birthday.
Well, the football season is pretty much over as far as I'm concerned. The Steelers exited the playoffs over the weekend, and in a way, I'm relieved. They were too banged up to make it deep into the playoffs, and had they beaten Jacksonville, I couldn't see them getting past New England or Indianapolis. Perhaps I'll be wrong, but I think all that Jacksonville won this past Saturday night was the privilege of getting rolled by the Patriots this weekend.
And college football's "national championship" was decided on Monday night, when LSU kicked Ohio State's butts in the BCS National Championship Game. Or as I call it, "BC-Mess!" If this past college football season wasn't the straw that broke the BCS' back and leads to a bonafide playoff system to determine a national champion, I don't know what else will do it! Out of the two-loss teams, though, I do agree that LSU should be number one, considering that both of their losses were triple-overtime losses to SEC teams that made it to bowl games. Although USC looked dominant in their rout of Illinois in the Rose Bowl, one of their losses was still to a putrid Stanford team. If I were ranking the final ten teams, it would look something like this...
#1 - LSU
#2 - USC
#3 - Missouri
#4 - Georgia
#5 - Kansas
#6 - West Virginia
#7 - Ohio State
#8 - Texas
#9 - Boston College
#10 - Oklahoma
And I didn't do badly in picking the bowl game winners, coming up 19-13 in my predictions, including picking LSU in the championship game. That's probably at least comparable to Coco the Monkey in the Friday Football forecasts!
And if you didn't catch the end of my Tuesday show, I was eagerly anticipating my culinary reward at the end of the day. Cooking in the crockpot at home was my latest edition of "JP's Five-Alarm Chili," and I decided to throw caution to the wind and try a few different ingredients this time around. This edition of chili included: cubed thin cut sirloin steak, cubed Case's pork roll patties (endorsed by our sister station WRTA's late-night talk show host Bruce Williams; I received a carton of patties as a Christmas gift), kidney beans and black beans, and four different kinds of peppers (chilis, hot red cherry, hot green and standard green bell peppers). I have since eaten two bowls of the results, and d**n WAS THAT GOOD! Despite all the peppers, the chili was spicy but not volcanic, and washed down with a can of ice-cold Genny, it was a supper for champions! And thus far, the after-effects haven't been bad, either!