Monday - Monday,
September 7 - 14, 2020
It was a week full of anticipation with the first weekend of Power 5 (Power 3?) college football and the start of the NFL season.
Not to mention . . .
The beginning of another season of
Varese Skorpions American football!
Speaking of EuroBall . . .
The Europe Warriors 2020
season MAY start with this
U-19 game in Poland
Things do not look good for me helping in this sixth Warriors experience unless the European Union lifts their current travel ban on Americans entering the E.U. due to our country's dismal showing in controlling the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Warriors program is
such a great experience for all
the players and coaches
Covid-19 also looms negatively over my participation in our Warriors Women's game in Barcelona and our Men's game in Mexico City, both in December.
News from the internet . . .
I agree
The 1968 St. Louis Cardinals
baseball team
A little hard to read, but the total salary for the eight starting players, their top pitcher plus their manager that year was a then whopping $805,000!
To put things in perspective, over the weekend New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara signed a five year contract extension worth $75,000,000.
We bought one of these
Barbacoa Platters on Friday
It was a good lunch!
As I said, the college football season started in earnest over the weekend.
Unfortunately, there is currently no college football being played in the Far West including our Washington Huskies.
Most of the games we viewed on TV featured either no fans or a limited few live spectators in the stadiums.
It got me to thinking about the many things that I'll miss this football season . . .
Going to the Holiday Bowl with
the Bruckers
Seeing old friends reunite
at games at the Rose Bowl
The Las Vegas Bowl with our
two sons and grandsons
Crazy looking Alabama fans
at a National Championship Game
also at the Rose Bowl
Joining my top two blog groupies
at the PAC-12 Championship Game
at Levis Stadium
That's Mike D'Antuono on the left and Paul Sabolic in the middle with me at the new San Francisco 49ers Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
With the Kadletz Clan tailgating
before a Washington Huskies
game in Seattle
Husky fans fully decked out at
the PAC-12 Championship Game
A wet Conteras foursome with
Mike and Susan D'Antuono in
Boulder, Colorado
This historic downpour occurred while tailgating before the Huskies took on the University of Colorado Buffaloes.
Father-Son bonding
Paul and Jason Sabolic at a
Husky-UCLA game in the Rose Bowl
With Mark and Susie Johnson
when the Huskies were sacrificed
to the great gods of American football
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana vs. LSU
Just having a GREAT time tailgating
at the Rose Bowl before the
Huskies-Ohio State Buckeyes game
As you can see, I believe that there is a LOT more to college football experience than just the game itself.
I'll miss all of it this season.
So how did the Skorpions first
workout go on Saturday?
Pretty good from all accounts
Our Women's flag team showed
their usual swagger
Coach Pye and LB Filippo
Did Filippo go swimming before practice?
Love this photo posted by the
Stockholm Mean Machines
The Mean Machines were Sweden's Superserien Champions in both 2018 and 2019.
On Sunday, Mary asked me,
out of the blue, to make her a
hat out of the newspaper
One just does not fail to heed the wishes of a Princess.
On Sunday night, the Rams started
their 2020 Season in a Covid-19 empty,
brand new state-of-the-art $5,000,000,000
SoFi Stadium
That's a LOT of zeroes!
The Rams were taking on
"America's Team" . . .
. . . in hideous uniforms
The only explanation is that their coach got the order in too late and had to settle for in stock JV jerseys.
They would have looked better
in these uniforms
It was a solid win despite
the uniforms
Back to the internet . . .
Those are Northern California
wildfires this weekend blazing
below the cloud cover
Not an LBJ fan in the 1960s
and I do not know if he really
said this but I think the thoughts
are accurate unfortunately
Monday we were back in school . . .
I supervised Jacob's Third Grade
recess activities while . . .
. . . Laurie has become the World's
Best Classroom assistant!
Reading Is FUNdamental!
I spent much of the last eight days enjoying these three books.
Dreaming about moving to Italy
Another fine read about crime and
culture in Venice
Murder and wine in France,
what's not to like?
Who knows what adventures await us this week . . .
