Saturday Morning, January 22, 2022

Updates

January 25, 2022: this crazy weekend, Jason Day. For the archives, the big issue this past weekend was the overtime rule regarding the coin flip and one team winning the game without the other team having a chance to handle the ball. 

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NFL playoffs: brackets; television start times.

Today

• television:
• today, 3:30 p.m. CT: Bengals at Titans, CBS -- BENGALS WIN with a last-second 52-yard field goal by a rookie kicker.
  
• today, 7:15 p.m. CT: 49ers at Aaron Rodgers, Fox -- 49ers win with a last-second 42-yard field goal, 13 - 10.
  
• Sunday, 2:05 p.m. CT: Rams at Tom Brady, NBC -- LA Rams methodically crush the Buccaneers.
  
• Sunday, 5:30 p.m. CT: Bills at Mahomes, CBS -- Mahomes! Everyone was "okay" with OT rules until they weren't. LOL.
  
• comments:
• Bills at Mahomes -- considered the most anticipated game this weekend
• all four games this weekend are must-watch games: three of four won by the underdog; 
  

NFL prediction, update, Sunday, January 30, 2022

• AFC championship game: Bengals at Mahomes; 2:05 p.m. CT, CBS
  
• NFC championship game: 49ers at LA Rams; 5:40 p.m. CT, Fox
  

Superbowl prediction, February 13, 2022:

• Mahomes over the  LA Rams.
  

Playoffs, NFL, takeaways:

• two teams lost when defense couldn't stop opponent from winning in last 24 seconds (LA Chargers / TB Buccaneers), and 13 seconds (Buffalo Bills / Mahomes)
• as the game goes on, defenders are the ones who tire out;
• there are three components of NFL teams:
• offense, defense, and special teams
• maybe there needs to be four components:
• offense, special teams, defense, fourth-quarter defense
• if an NFL team doesn't have all three timeouts left in the last three (two?) minutes of any game, it's poor time management -- this one is on the coaches
  

Politics: watch for dots to connect Trump, US Supreme Court, and Deutsche Bank.

Geopolitics: Pawn to G7 -- Lithuania and Taiwan. Link to Doomberg.

The best professional players from the National Basketball Association became eligible to compete in the Olympic Games in 1992.

In that inaugural year, the USA Men's Basketball National Team featured legendary players Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Charles Barkley, and is widely considered to be the greatest athletic team ever assembled in any sport. 

The Dream Team was truly a global cultural phenomenon, destroying all opponents on its way to clinching the gold medal and reestablishing the US as the dominant superpower in basketball.

Asked at a press conference about their hapless opponent prior to their debut game at the Barcelona Olympics, Barkley famously responded “I don’t know much about Angola, but Angola’s in trouble.”

Meat Loaf:

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