This is the time of year where college bowl games and the NFL fill up the tube. The most important event, at least in Boblandia, is the Niners' game in St. Louis against the Rams. The Niners need a victory to ensure its second seed in the NFC playoffs. That means that they would be off on wild-card weekend, an important week of rest for all teams after a year of injuries.
The Rams are one of the worst teams in the league this year. They suffered an incredible number of injuries this year, so the Niners are favored big-time. It could be a rout, it should be a rout, but you always worry about that "on any given Sunday" thing.
So my pre-New Year anxieties are focused on that. I'm hoping the Oregon Ducks beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl (most of the traditional New Year's Day games have been pushed back to Monday the 2nd because New Year's Day fall of Sunday, NFL day, this year) and that Stanford goes out on top in the Fiesta Bowl. But the big thing is the Niner game, which is going to be at ten a.m. on New Year's Day. I don't know if ten a.m. is too early for Joan to make popcorn, but the holidays are the time to eat improperly.
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