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I Remember Another Number 12 For Tampa Bay.

Okay, I am very old. I have been attending Tampa Bay Bucs home games since the Seventies. That is almost 50 years. In 1979, after a few years of futility, the Bucs had a QB wearing the number 12, who was unappreciated and underpaid. The then owner of the team let him get away because he didn't want to pay him $600,000 for a season. That, even with inflation, is less that some QBs make for a game these days. Doug Williams went on to win a Super Bowl with the Redskins; but, in 1979, he was my number 12. It is fitting that we should honor him today, the Martin Luther King holiday. He was the first black QB to win a Super Bowl, and paved the way for many of the current players. 

It Is Going To Be An Interesting Week.

The Buccaneers are playing the Packers for a right to go to a Superbowl in Tampa. Behind the TV in my garage/den, for the past 18 years are a couple of bumper stickers honoring the 2002 Bucs, next to my share of stock in the Green Bay Packers, Inc. Whoever wins, I will have a team in the Superbowl that I can support. Whatever happens, can we now stop talking about what Tom Brady can mean to a franchise? Why isn't Brady in the conversation for Most Valuable Player? Go Bucs. Go Pack. This is what I call a Win,Win situation.

CES 2021 - It's All Virtual, But Gadgets Galore.

There aren't thousands of geeks roaming Las Vegas this week, as CES has gone virtual. But, since I haven't attended in a while, I have been doing the virtual gadget tour online anyway. This Samsung TV was introduced last year, and I will try to find some interesting stuff to show you this year as well. But, for the prize for TV I most want in my house, the Sero TV gets the nod. It is essentially designed to accept broadcast from your phone, and automatically rotates to vertical mode for viewing texts, emails and other content. Then, it rotates horizontally, to accept content like movies and TV. Awesome. 

The FutureLawyer Prepares To Watch The NFL Playoffs On TV.

When I said my hearing was selective, I knew that you would want to see a practical example. 

Tom Brady And The Bucs Going To The Playoffs? Of Course They Are.

Am I the only one who noticed that the Patriots have been to the playoffs 11 consecutive years since 2009, and that the first year they are without Tom Brady they aren't going? Or, that the Bucs haven't been in the playoffs in 12 consecutive years, and that the first year they have Tom Brady, they are going to the playoffs if they win tomorrow? Every man who is older than 40 is rooting for Tom and the Bucs. Each of us love it when an "old" man succeeds in a young man's game. It is fun to watch a Bucs game again.

 

Washington Football Team - By Any Other Name, They Still Beat The Cowboys.

Washington Football Team. Lifelong fans of the Washington Football Team will understand when I say that, no matter the final record, it is a successful season when the team defeats the Dallas Cowboys. But, as I watched my lifelong favorite team destroy the Cowboys last night, I couldn't help but think that maybe the name change was a good thing. There is an unwritten rule in trial law that you should be careful with objections to unfavorable testimony. The reason is that, by objecting, you call attention to the testimony, and, win or lose the argument, you can never erase the testimony from a fact finder's mind. Like picking at a scab, the results can be catastrophic. Now, imagine you are watching a football team with no name. It is the Washington Football Team. What is the immediate image that goes through your mind? In fact, doesn't this whole debacle just fix the image of the old logo in your mind? Will you ever be able to erase the image of the old logo, and the old name from your mind? Hail to the Football Team. Hail, Victory. Members of the Football Team on the warpath. Fight for old D.C.

In 2012, We Said The Name.

Forget Politics. Let's Get Back To Something Worthwhile. Bucs!

Sooner or later, we all have to get back to basics. We have to figure what is important in our lives. We all need to get a life. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in first place. Tom Brady is the G.O.A.T. The Bucs are in win now or go home mode. Bucs football is fun again. The Bucs are number three in the NFL power rankings, for the first time in my lifetime, and I am OLD. I am even older than Tom Brady. Go Bucs!

TMobile Launches TVision, And It Is A GameChanger.

TVision. My favorite cell phone carrier just got a lot better. Cable TV without wires has come to my phones and tablets. A super sports charged subscription is $60 a month added to my already inexpensive cell phone bill, and I can stream high quality channels to all my devices. I also installed it for Diane, since we can have three simultaneous streams going. With my regular cable from Spectrum, there is always lag and glitches, and I can't get NFL RedZone, which I watch religiously on Sundays. Now, with TVision, I have RedZone anytime I am away from the home big screen. Since TVision uses my regular TMobile subscription, my 5G phone gets great speed and reception. The channel list is comparable to cable subscriptions costing twice as much. TMobile will be selling settop boxes to connect to TVs, which may cause me to cancel cable entirely. I will reserve judgment on that, since I like separating services between vendors. Check it out. You won't be unhappy.

The Rays Are A Wild And Crazy Bunch Of Guys!

Rays Game Four Walkoff Win. In the most improbable, crazy, insane, unexpected, bottom of the ninth in World Series History, the Rays walked off while the Dodgers stumbled off, and evened the Series at 2 games. In a game in which a rookie, Randy Arozarena tied or broke Postseason records for hits and home runs, the underdog Rays got a clutch hit from another rookie, Brett Philips, to tie the game, and errors by the right fielder and catcher for the Dodgers, allowed Arozarena to score the winning run. Click the link to see how it happened. This one will go down in the annals of World Series and baseball history.