Super Bowl picks and other thoughts

Hi there.  So my parents have left for their 3 month stay at the southern fortress of solitude in Fripp Island SC and what comes, SNOW.  Great timing huh.
First in this edition is Super Bowl picks.  Last week 3 for 4 with my only loss being the Giants.  A few observations on the games from last weekend.  The Niner team that you see now is nothing like the Joe Montana led teams from the 80's and early 90's.  They were a finesse team that short passed and ran like the wind after the catch you to death.  This years' edition plays a nasty defense and runs the ball effectively setting up the pass.  The Saints only problem was the Niners got the ball last.
Rob Gronkowski is a stud tight end period and Adrian Hernandez compliments him well for the Patriots.  Now if Bill Belichick remembers how coach a defense like he did with the Giants...I don't want to think about how good they will be again.
Ravens playing over their heads but are just doing enough to win.
Joe Flacco is becoming everyone's whipping boy.  Ed Reed calls him out, and the other day one of his neighbors actually contacted the Ravens front office to let them know he was riding a skateboard in his driveway!
As for the Giants.  They're not intimidated by a hostile crowd, because they have to deal with the home fans when they stink up the Meadowlands.  Eli Manning was asked if he thought he was an elite quarterback along the lines of Brady, Rodgers, Big Ben in Pittsburgh and Drew Brees.  He honestly answered yes and people laughed.  Um, I think he's backed up those words.
Super Bowl Prediction.  Patriots and the Giants in two weeks in Indy.
On to other things.
There is this product out there called "bacon lube."  It's a bacon flavored and scented massage oil.  The notion of rubbing a bacon scented oil on a woman's back is repulsive.  I can picture it.  Dim lights, candles, Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on" playing in the background and you're rubbing a hickory or apple wood smoked bacon oil on your girlfriend or wife's back while in the mood.  I'm not thinking intimacy or intercourse, I'm thinking "what's for brunch and pass me a Mimosa."
I was disappointed when I didn't make the cut for that story on Glens Falls most eligible bachelors.
Last week it was Hostess bakeries and this week Kodak corporation filed for bankruptcy protection.  Who's next, IBM?
I've got not one, but two "This weeks sign of the apocalypse."  Leading off, Lady GaGa is working with Harvard University to launch, "The Born this Way" foundation.  Not in my lifetime would you think that would happen.  I figured she would be honored by the schools' "Hasty Pudding" drama club. 
Second one comes from Utah where the PC police swat team are at it again.  Corner Canyon High School is scheduled to open in September of 2013.  They let the students choose the mascot.  The students chose the name, "Cougars" because of its closeness to BYU.  The school board overruled the students and changed the name to Chargers because they thought the name "Cougars" would be offensive to older women!  I live in Chestertown and I have yet to be asked to sign a petition by any middle age women wanting to change North Warren's mascot for that same reason.
Finally say a prayer for Gary Carter.  "The Kid" has been fighting brain cancer and doctors found more tumors.  It's not looking good.  What a heck of ball player he was and an even better person...Leccese out.