ITS THE SUPERBOWL!!! (Actually the Pre-race Show)

This week Sunday 1st is a big day in American sports when the top two teams from the NFL get together and play for the championship in what everybody knows is the Daytona 500 pre-race show....Oh sorry....Superbowl. I must start a tradition and select the winner of this game. If you remember I selected #1 Florida to play #2 Texas in the NCAA championship game. Unfortunately Oklahoma was #1, Florida was #2, Texas was #3 and Florida won. Oh well at least one of my selected teams won and hey, I was right about #2 winning as well.

But this time I will try again and hope for more accurate results:

Pittsburg as a great defence as always with an offence that is average at best. Big Ben will be very tough to bring down, as he always is, and I predict Santonio Holmes will have a great day (Willie Parker too). All and all the steelers will score about 28 points in this game.

Now The Ariz.....really....wow....The Arizona Cardinals.

This team seemed to come out of nowhere to win a, lets face it, poor division, but they didn't have to beat these teams in the playoffs. They had to beat the Philadelphia Eagles and the Carolina Panthers, both very good teams. In order for the Cards to win Warner and Fitzgerald have to have a great day. Its a good thing Warner has the arm and Fitzgerald has the talent because these two could pick any defence apart. That said a lot more as to happen for a Cardinal win. Most notably the defence. Linebacker Adrian Wilson is a great addition to this team and has shown an ability to lead this team and a defence that forces a lot of turnovers, and they will need a couple in the superbowl to win. While this defence hasn't shown the same shut down abilities that the steelers show, they can and do come through when needed and, in the playoffs, have given their offence the opportunity to score more points than the other one. That in the end is the most important thing. The Cardinals will score 31 points on a last minute field goal to secure a superbowl win!

Arizona 31 Pittsburg 28

Little known fact

Everyone knows the obvious about Barack Obama. He is the first African-American president but he is also the first elected president from the north since JFK....seriously:

John F. Kennedy - Massachusetts

Lyndon Johnson - Texas

Richard Nixon - California

Gerald Ford - MICHIGAN - But not elected

Jimmy Carter - Georgia

Ronald Reagon - California

George H.W. Bush - Texas

Bill Clinton - Arkansas

George W. Bush - Texas

Barack Obama - Illinois

I know hardly important but interesting none-the-less. Just remember in years:

JFK - 1960 - 1963
BHO - 2008 - ???? (Hopefully 2012 or 2016)

Maybe the south did rise again.............................

Down Stock A Good Thing?

The down economy and down stock market is considered by many to be a bad thing and to many people, particularly those over 45, and especially those over 50, it is a terrible thing because their is very little time for 401K's and other retirement plans to rebound. It is also very unlikely to rebound very soon or very quickly when the rebound starts. Despite this bad news there are many people who can benefit from this current down period. I realize nothing I am saying is new but it is something that is worth reminding many times over. If you are starting investments or even under 40 it is definitely worth investing more while prices are low. As always aggressiveness still needs to be relative to age but it is nevertheless a wonderful opportunity to invest in your future. As Dave Ramsey would say:

"Live like no one else, so that later on you can live like no one else."

Book and Movie Review

Over Christmas I saw the movie Seven Pounds and read Josh Hamilton's book. They were both very interesting and I want to share with you what I thought of them. I will not spoil the movie without a warning.

"Seven Pounds"

This movie, starring Will Smith, is a very well-made movie and the acting, led by Smith, was phenomenal. Just like we have come to expect from Will Smith, you can feel his devotion and love for making a character come to life. I would be shocked if this movie did not win several awards for acting, music, story, etc. etc. etc. Despite all this positive stuff the movie can best be described as an great awful movie because the message it sends is completly wrong.

SPOILER ALERT (If you want to see the movie scroll down to after the italicized words)!

The premise of the movie is quite simple. A very successful and almost addictatevly devoted aerospace engineer (Smith) is driving with his wife while trying to do work via his cell phone. This distraction causes him to drift into the oncoming traffic lane and cause a wreck killing seven people, including his wife and several strangers. Understandable so Smith is distraught over the deaths and devoted the rest of his life to finding a way to save the lives of seven strangers who he deemed to be good people. Sounds good so far right, well he does this by quitting his aeronautical job and posing as a IRS auditor. In this role he is able to find several people, get to know them, and determine if they have earned the right to be saved. For example, he donated bone marrow to one boy and part of his liver to a woman. When Smith gets down to the final two people to change the lives of it he must find a heart from a person with a rare blood type to save the woman he has fallen in love with and find eyes to change the live of a blind man. Instead of using connections, and his broad knowledge of science he commits suicide by filling a bath tub with ice water and getting in it with a jellyfish which until the final scene was a pet in his hotel room. Before committing suicide he made all the arrangements to donate his heart to the woman and his eyes to the blind man......Like I said I great awful movie.

NO MORE SPOILOR'S


Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief

I got this book for Christmas and read it in about a week which is very impressive, particularly so because I ussually read fiction books. As a Christian and sports fan this book appealed to me for obvious reasons but I don't ussually read books in this catogory, in fact I can think of two:

Joe Gibbs: Racing to Win

Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief

In this book Hamilton reveals an amazing testimony of his life and acceptance of Christ. As many people know Josh Hamilton struggled with drug addiction for many years, even addiction to crack, which many say is the drug you don't come back from, but Josh Hamilton did. The book tells his story of his rise to fame as the number draft pick in 1999, his fall completly out of baseball and his slow steady recovery and eventual return to baseball concluding the story with a insiders prespective on his amazing run at the 2008 Home Run Derby in Yankee Stadium. This book is will help those who have never dealt with drugs in anyway understand the power it holds on life, It will help those who have told friends and family, "so just stop," understand why its not that simple, and Hamilton story already has helped other get on the road to recovery.
This is a great book.

In short, don't spend your money and time at "Seven Pounds" instead use your money and time to buy and read "Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief."

Coming Soon!

Hey folks its been a little bit but soon I will share a couple reviews with you about a movie and a book that saw and read over Christmas.

Movie: Seven Pounds


Book: Josh Hamilton: Beyond Belief

Come on back to see if you should watch and read!