I was asked the other day if I knew how many people read my bLog here … I don’t … But I immediately thought I could look at the web logs and see who actually is reading this stuff … Then I thought again, maybe I don’t want to know?

I do know this … it’s spidered … after all, it’s on the ‘net … I know it’s spidered cause I get a bunch of comment spam all the time … So, I know that people that I don’t necessarily want to know of this site’s existence do know … How do they know? Through automated scripts that use those spiders that have an index of me …

I realized the other day when creating the project page that I don’t have my email address on here anywhere … I recall typing ‘contact me at my web site’ and that’s when I realized it … Then I thought, I don’t want to post an email address on the page judging from all the comment spam, I don’t want to introduce another window for spam … spam just sucks …

So, in the end, I probably won’t ever look at the logs cause that takes time … I only know of the people that read this because of the people that told me that they read this … I can only imagine that people here and there drop by because of a search … I do cover a lot of topics here … I have received comments in the past that were valid comments, and I didn’t know the author of those comments … Specifically my post about me not being a trucker, but I drive a truck on the weekends …

I also realize that I type very long posts … I dont try to, it’s just my way … Recently when emailing people from the band, it came to my attention that the length in which I describe something just totally lost them … So I have been working on getting to the point and leaving my actual thoughts out of it … This is difficult, but I guess I have to realize I’m dealing with musicians … Which is tough for me, cause I am a musician myself … So I don’t comprehend it … (Funny, most of the people I went to computer school with were musicians … We could have formed a band … I did in fact get together with one of the guys I went to school with, and we wrote some originals and even put one on a record … AVAP Sampler Volume 2 if you can find it.) …

Anyway … enough about me … let’s talk about my wife … When I was asked who read this bLog, I mentioned that my wife didn’t even read it … and I still don’t think she does … She mentioned that she would … There is a computer available for the family’s use … I have all the switch ports monitored for bandwidth, and I can tell if the thing was used whenever … I once baffled my child in that I told him that he used the computer while I was gone the previous night, and he didn’t know how I knew … Well, that’s how … I don’t look at it all the time … Was just probably something I saw at the time and I mentioned it and it freaked him … cool! .. hehe … It’s good to keep your kids on their toes … and beat them whenever you can (a post from a long time ago) …

So, the reason I post and don’t care about who reads it is that it’s here for me … I can go back on this whenever and see what was going on at whatever time, and what was spewing from my brain at that time … See what crap I was filling my site up with … Interesting to see my change of opinions over time, etc … It’s my vent … It’s where I go to complain or praise something that’s going on at the time … I share it publicly cause someone may benefit from it … Others may just find it a waste of time … Either that, or they will become engrossed in my writings and spend hours making sure they’re up to date on the latest and greatest and monitor for new posts … That would mean that I’m like a rock star … The President … a movie star! Yes! This would be the best thing ever, wouldn’t it? Bah! It’s probably time I stopped typing in here enlarging my ego and started making some money … Back to work …

Well, they lost. Was I upset? Not really. I would have liked them to win, but I didn’t think they had a bad loss. It’s not like they went to the Superbowl and were spanked … They remained alive until 9 seconds left in the game. They lost by 3 points. To me, that isn’t a bad effort at all. The things I have been hearing bother me though.

Right after the game, I had to leave for work. I didn’t see any press conferences or post-game shows, so I don’t know the extent of everything, just what my wife has been telling me. Seems many people in the city want to blame someone for the loss. If we had won, there would be none of this. She tells me that people are saying Donovan choked, or the coaching was bad. Whatever.

The Eagles broke tons of franchise records this year. They finally got past the NFC championship game and they went to the Superbowl. They also played an exciting Superbowl. They played sloppy, but they also made the other team play sloppy. The other team was able to get it together quicker than the Eagles, but the Eagles weren’t far behind. Again, only 3 points behind. They had the first Superbowl to ever be tied after 3 quarters.

So, I am disappointed that they lost. I am not devastated. I am sorta amazed that anyone could play football in that extremely hyped and show business environment, but both teams are subjected to the two weeks prior to the game with tons of press and all the hooplah of the game itself … So it’s not a cop out. I realize that any given football game will have one of two outcomes. For the Eagles, this Superbowl is chalked up as a loss. A lot of Philadelphians give it the ol’ “We’ll get ’em next year” … but in this case, we certainly can go there again next year.

It’s great to be an Eagles fan. I have seen many great things on my television from the Eagles these past, oh 16 years. Sometimes it’s not great to be part of the group though … I don’t believe that fans can coach, and I don’t believe that they should be upset about the decisions the organization makes … I don’t think someone like Freddy Mitchell is someone to get rid of … I like FredEx, I think he is an asset to the team … While people may say that he had no impact and when he was given a chance he missed the ball. Welp, the missed ball was a bad throw, and the times he was wide open, you didn’t see on your TV screen. That’s why the coaches look at the film after the game … They see these efforts, and see reasons to keep players that may not be favorable in the public eye. You know what I say? Shut up and support your team.

My complaints of the Superbowl were the horrible production. Poor camera cuts and bad timing. On top of that, the sound was horrid. The country act was live vocals going to a track … That could have been mixed better. Black Eyed Peas had live vocals, but Earth Wind and Fire was it? They were lip-synched … Alecia Keys (I don’t know how she spells her name) was completely lip-synched … The National Anthem was lip-synched … and portions of Paul McCartney were lip-synched … McCartney had way better sound though … Made that transition from synch to live very good … I thought the director’s choice of camera angles during the game made it difficult to watch at times … Oh well …

Well, today is the day. The Superbowl. The Philadelphia Eagles are in the Superbowl finally. It’s been a fun two weeks. The city has been a happy place. Eveyone is in a good mood. It’s easy for the band to get a crowd response just by asking “Where are the Eagles fans?!” Every night the top story is the Eagles in Jacksonville Florida. All the sports shows are in Jacksonville. Was it always like this, or is it just because I am watching due to my team being in the Superbowl? Hmm, thinking out loud, I guess it’s because it’s the lead on the nightly news, and I flip around to the other channels to see what’s on. I wouldn’t do that normally, so that explains it. Yes, it’s because the Eagles are all over the news. Why? Because the Eagle are in the Superbowl!

Will they win? Who knows? Does it matter? Well, yeah … It would be great to win. If you pay attention to all the reports and the mucky mucks, it sounds like a Patriots win due to their Superbowl experience and their team’s talent. If you listen to the Eagles’ optimists, they say that if they play a perfect game, there’s a possibility … Guess what? I think every game is 50/50 … It’s not a cop-out either … It’s a fact … There are games that you think are definite wins, and it could come out a loss … What a downer … and there are games where you think it could be a close one, and it’s a slaughter … It just proves that you can do all the predicting you want, but what happens in those four quarters you never know …

I think there is momentum … I think it is important to be playing well and have high spirits … As soon as you lose in your mind, you’ve lost the game … They need to be positive throughout … There have been plenty of comeback games in the past, and even if they’re ahead, they need to stay in it as well … I like a coach that will pound the points too … If you’re ahead and you have the chance to score again, do it … No holding back. I don’t think there should be any etiquette in coaches that you won’t cream one another … especially in the Superbowl …

This also has something to do with a new rule I would like to propose … I would like to have the “Okay, you win” rule. Maybe just during the regular season, or maybe all the way through to the Superbowl, but … When a team is up by an astronomical point spread, and it’s an obvious win, the other team ought to be able to throw the “Okay, you win” flag, and then walk off the field … Game over … you obviously beat the hell out of us, and at this point there is nothing we can do to win … This way there wouldn’t be any injuries from the frustrated defense that couldn’t stop the offense all day taking pot shots at offensive players at the end of plays … You see that all the time … They know they’re going to lose, but they have to continue to play …

Anyway, I will probably get sued for this post. The Superbowl committee is very strict on their copyrighted use of the term “Superbowl” … Advertisers aren’t allowed to use the term. Bars aren’t allowed to advertise a “Superbowl Party” … They have to call it “The Big Game” or something … This year, we went balls out … In everything we used the term Superbowl and you hear the term all the time on the radio and TV … I think we decided that the copyright on the term doesn’t apply if your city’s team is actually in the Superbowl … That remains to be seen …

I am optimistic that the Eagles will win. I think they really want to win, and I think they have the mindset to win. I have faith in their coach that he has prepared them to win. I think they have the talent to win. But I know that there’s a chance that they might not win. At this point I don’t know how devastating that would be to me. I am hoping that I won’t know that feeling. I will be watching, and I will be cheering the Eagles on from my living room where they can’t hear me yell, but I most assuredly will yell at people that can’t hear me. I am after all a Philadelphia Eagles fan.

Has any one else noticed how many times newscasters refered to Lincoln Financial Field as “The Vet” … and they have already set up the stage for the parade … and I thought I was optimistic … Aparently this game is a gimme …