GET THE F OVER IT Detroit fans.

Referees and football -  GET THE F OVER IT.  Move on.  Good god you would think it's the first time a team ever got hosed from a bad call . . . and was it a bad call?   Did you watch it in normal speed from the ref's point of view?   Or are you looking at one of 5 camera angles in super slo mo frame by frame.

LOOK!  It's so obvious if you stop in THAT frame!!   I believe refs are no worse or better (probably better actually) then 20 years ago but now you have  9 High Def cameras looking at every play . . . . . . except the goal line it seems. 

And don't even tell me Detroit played a better game.  Stafford was CRAP.  He had 265 yards in the air but 124 of those were on 2 plays which means his other 30 passes went for 141 yards (4.7 yards per pass attempt) . Add the 56 total rushing yards and Detroit was horrible with a TOTAL of 197 yards the rest of the game.

MEANWHILE the Packers were acting like they never played before and despite looking like clowns at times amassed 447 total yards.

So Detroit fans - if you listen very very carefully you will hear me NOT CARING that you were robbed.  Been there done that, remember fail mary?  Remember roughing the passer and Clay Mathews.  It happens and nobody cares.

And don't get me started on the ESPN telecast.  Booger is an idiot and should be fined.  YEA - the refs missed the call but why talk about it 5 players later. And where are the goal line cameras?  And who cares about celebrities in the stands and how much money that make.  What a horrible network for broadcasting football.

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Darrell Bevill - the coach of Detroit - in case any of you forgot was the starting QB for the Wisconsin Badgers in the "Cinderella Season" of 1993 when Wisconsin went to the Rose Bowl for the first time.  My mom made this decoupage(??) Badger that season. Still have it. A little bent but still viable.

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MGM sold The Bellagio for 4.25 billion dollars.  I did not know it was for sale or I would have put in a bid.  4.25 billion is 27 times more then what was robbed in Oceans 11.  MGM also sold Circus Circus for 10 cases of Spotted Cow.

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1 out of every 9 used cars in dealerships have unreported recall safety problems including defected airbags.

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An average NBA team travels 50,000 miles a year. 20,000 more then an NFL team. They play every 2.07 days, 13.3 back to back games and on average fly 250 miles a day, every day for 25 weeks which they have found is VERY bad with sleep depredation.

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Support for impeachment is growing among Democrats and Independents - not so much the GOP who continue to believe corruption is "just good business".

In case you missed it yesterday - Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross seems to have stolen $120,000 from partners and customers and STILL holds foreign holdings in his investment portfolio which s a MAJOR conflict of interest.  Under investigation.

Then it was reported that the three buffoons running the Department of Veterans Affairs, "appointed"   by Trump but none of them have any government title or public accountability (the GOP got rid of those pesky rules) and are profiting it seems.  Under investigation.

And of course yesterday morning GOP Representative Chris Collins was arrested for insider trading.  Seems he learned of a bad outcome of an FDA trial and called his son FROM THE WHITE HOUSE telling him to sell! sell!.

Of course there is so much more going on those are just not news worthy.     

Trump only picks the best cronies he can find, the real greedy dishonest ones, the only people he knows.  An Administration that is understaffed and disorganized.  SO - why not let the Russians steal our bases right?

OH yea - The Russians are REALLY celebrating all the land they are getting from America.  It's almost like Trump is working for Russia.  Obama and Bush spent years fighting ISIS AND WINNING and Trump just let them all go free.  THANK YOU RUSSIA for talking him into this.

Trump and his swamp are just an orgy of criminality and the GOP are just playing along.  YEA - he is SO much better then Clinton.

The good thing is the left "have a chance" to take the White House, the Senate AND the House.  It IS in the realm of possibility now.  Probably  not the Senate but there is a chance.

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And finally - DJ and I hooked up with the Minnesota Wild to be our favorite NHL team  We have watched every game so far and we actually saw a victory the other day.  Last night we watched the Toronto Maple Leafs skate rings around the Wild.  MAN those guys can skate and pass  YIKES!

Sadly the Wild are 1-5-0  sigh!  Last place. but they have only played 1 home game.  Really liking this niche' sport. :-)  It might catch on.