An interesting first round of the NFL playoffs, the kneeling bastards. Last night we watched the hapless by tradition Cleveland Browns jump out to a 28-0 lead over the perennially winning Pittsburgh Steelers. We remarked to Mrs. Stroock that if we were a Brown's fan we'd be terrified. The Browns had only one place to go.
It was 20 years ago that our own New York Giants won a trip to the big game by annihilating the Minnesota Vikings 41-0. It wasn't even that close. We were quite nervous throughout the second half. Literally almost nothing happened. It was a great day for the Giants.
The modern NFL is a game of momentum and indeed the Steelers mounted a comeback. But the Browns held on for the win. Congrats. Next week they play the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs.
Using the Chiefs as a springboard, there's a perfectly anodyne joke that we'd like to segway into about baseball's Cleveland Indians, but we're afraid to. You see, as threatened, Parler has been nuked. Our own Neighbors think its funny. Oh well.
During the commercials we like to flip to VH1 to see what old videos they're playing. I dunno. It's fun to try to guess what decade the video is from. There's a clean feel to late 80's vids. Mid to late 90's videos have a sheen to them, and the color schemes gives away the game. There's just a touch to them. It gets tricky for us going into the 2000s. We weren't paying any attention to pop music by then and were even getting into country a bit. The digital cameras usually give it away. These days we find ourselves nostalgic for the time.
During one break we saw a clip of New Kids on the Block playing the O2 arena in London. The place was packed with middle aged mom-types, which was kind of hot. We can't say we NKOTB anymore. Still, we throw up a bit...Anyway, exit video, more Wolfmother:
From Wolfmother's second album, which is eleven years old now. We hate you time. We love the thump of that base drum leading into the solo singing. That's a very solid guitar riff. Just a great video, the play of the light and shadow and the inserted imagery.
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