BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Monday, February 8, 2010

The Super Bowl title is in the bag



The Saints marched on to the Super Bowl where they faced a very good Indianapolis Colts team. It was only fitting that as in the recent World Series, we saw a match up between the two best teams in the NFL. Not since the New York Yankees of 2001 has there been a team that its hometown fans pulled for them and represented them in the wake of a terrible tragedy. Put away those loser "Aints" bags, boys and girls... the first time's the charm and the New Orleans Saints, who played with a lot of heart and emotion, are Super Bowl champs. And dat was a magnificent game with a top-notch performance by QB Drew Brees. Last night before I went to bed, the last song on my iTunes was "New Orleans" by Cali punk band Rancid. The lyrics struck me: "Well, she's got pride like a million lions; she's got scars on her velvet face; i'm gonna carry her heart to New Orleans."

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