Morning coffee XII
First, the Super Bowl. Yesterday I posted about the losing tradition of the Arizona Cardinals. Today, I link you to ESPN’s arguments that the Steelers are the best sports franchise of all time. I think that this is overblown — the Montreal Canadiens should be the clear winners, but are brushed aside because they have not won as much in recent years. Heck, the Yankees are disqualified for not winning a title since 2000.
Still, with the arguments in place, I now know that I must cheer for Arizona in the Super Bowl. When you don’t really care about either team, cheering for the clear favourites is boring. You either get to win in a drama-free fashion, or lose. Cheering for the underdogs makes winning exciting and takes some of the bite against losing. For the next week, I am an official Cardinals fan.
When the #2 read news story on the BBC is titled “US woman gives birth to octuplets”, you know it’s a slow news day. Still, the New Scientist tells us that (against all anecdotal evidence to the contrary) alcohol prevents erectile dysfunction. Of course, the study was only conducted on Australians, so it may not apply to the rest of us.
Blog of the day? Ewoks are creepy.
Today’s blews comes courtesy of BoingBoing: The case against CandyLand compares today’s children’s games to those I grew up with, and is the best thing I’ve read this morning, even if Battleship is sold a bit short.
The image of the day involves discarded cars set up to look at Stonehenge:
More of these at Environmental Graffiti.
The runner-up images of the day were not entirely safe for work, but can be found here.
Today’s webcomic comes from bitstrips.com:
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