Falcon Unis: Not the Worst

I may be getting soft in my old age, but maybe the Falcons uniforms aren’t the worst in the history of sports. I say they’re an improvement over the previous Falcon uniforms. The all black home outfits looked better than the dated Carolina Panther unis, and yesterday’s gradient jerseys weren’t as bad as the Lions all grey togs. Better than the Seahawks head to toe lime green monstrosities. Aside from the barely noticeable red side stripe, the Falcon unis are pretty plain. I like the big numbers, a rarity in football these days. I like the silver masks.

While I’d rather the Falcons wear white pants with the black home jerseys, we’ll probably only see that when they wear their throwbacks. I’d rather they wear white over white on the road, but I’m sure we’ll see red pants at some point (this Thursday night?), and probably black pants with the white jerseys at some point. Perhaps the new coach will come in and calm things down, uniform wise. Before it’s over we could see ten different jersey / pant combos.

Black black

White white

Gradient black

Throwback

White red

White black

Black white

Black red

Gradient white

Gradient red  

In the first quarter on third and goal the Falcon defender was called for unnecessary roughness on Lion QB Matt Stafford, but the Fox replay official agreed it was a bad call. Instead of fourth and goal field goal the Lions had a first and goal, and former Bulldog D’Andre Swift scored a touchdown.

They say good teams make their own luck. The Falcons are unlucky. Third game this season they had a 95% chance to win late in the game, and lost. That’s never happened before. If I were owner Arthur Blank, I wouldn’t come down to the sidelines in the fourth quarter, Seems like every time he is seen on the field the Falcons lose. Maybe not all in one year, but mark my word they’ll get to them all at some point.

Next Saturday’s games:

12:00 #4 GA@KY

12:00 BC@#1 Clemson

04:00 #3 NotreDame@GT ABC

06:00 MissState@#2 Alabama

07:20 Falcons@Panthers Oct 29 Thursday night

Tom Brady tied Drew Brees for the most TD passes in NFL history. Cam Newton threw three interceptions and was removed from the game, a blowout loss to the 49ers. Dallas Cowboy backup QB Andy Dalton was knocked out of the game yesterday by an obvious illegal hit. If the NFL wants to cut down on injuries, why don’t they make a rule where when this happens the player hitting illegally has to sit out the same amount of time the injured player misses? 

There’s something calming about looking out over water. Just being able to look out our back windows and being able to see the sunlight reflecting off the creek is one of the favorite things about our house. 

When we moved into our house back in the 90’s there was one fallen tree trunk lying across the creek. Last week I saw where one end of the tree has finally fallen down onto the bank of the creek, and smaller sticks and branches have gotten stuck under the tree. This has created a little backup of water, making the creek deeper. That might make for a better view (since we can’t really see the fallen tree from our house) but something tells me I need to go down and clear all that mess up. Gonna be cold, dirty, and wet. 

Have a good weekend? Ours was on the low key side. Spaghetti and meatballs for supper Friday evening.

Cleaned upstairs Saturday morning. Took Ceil’s car for an oil change. Quesadillas for lunch. Watched Syracuse@Clemson and GT@BC. I’ve been saying Syracuse is a good team. They kept it close but the Tigers put up 47 on them. The Jackets made BC look as good as Clemson. Mexican for supper. 

Sunday School on line. Quesadillas for lunch and later for supper. Ceil wanted to get out of the house so we took something down to W&MC. Will was adding planters to the back deck. Anna was back home resting after a weekend trip to Tennessee. Later I watched some football, and after that Hallmark Channel. 

Monday: Left work shortly after five. Stopped by Taco Bell for a bite before small group at church. Rob was out so it was just me and John and Ron. Got home about 8:20.

Anna didn’t get the job she was interviewing for. 

Denison: Cal Thomas' new book, America's Expiration Date, is subtitled The Fall of Empires and Superpowers . . . and the Future of the United States. Thomas builds his narrative on an argument advanced by Sir John Glubb (1897–1986). Glubb "found patterns, or stages, in the rise and fall of great nations. He called them the age of pioneers, the age of conquests, the age of commerce, the age of affluence, the age of intellect, and finally the age of decadence." All begin their final slide when a sense of shared morality and common virtue is abandoned." Thomas warns: "If America doesn't learn from history—our own and the world's—we are likely to suffer the fate of other great nations, rotting from within before either being conquered from without by an invading army or collapsing under the weight of self-indulgence, decadence, debt, a sense of entitlement, greed, and envy." If we think this cannot be our future, our complacency makes it more likely. 

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FRANK THOMAS  [B-R Bio] a Hall of Famer, he was the first to win a league MVP in two straight seasons and to DH in each season - MVPs 1993 & 1994 for CHW. DH’ed 4 & 13 times respectively. Though he played for two other teams before retiring, he remains the career leader in twenty career categories for his original franchise, not to mention eleven single-season categories.- CHW career leader 20 times; season leader 11 times. . He currently appears in some cringe-worthy television ads for testosterone and body building products.- TV ads