Yet Another Blah Falcons Uniform Unveiling

Falcons released their new uniforms this week. Pretty plain. Red jerseys, which are few and far between in the NFL - a good thing. With jersey sleeves being so tiny there days, it's hard to have a unique jersey (though some teams manage it). Both the TV numbers and the Falcons logo is so tiny, it's almost not worth having them.

Stripes on the pants - another plus, though they're a new, weird stripe pattern. Some say the stripes mimic the Cardinals.

Same black helmets. Evidently the team took pains to make sure the low gloss matte shell was retained, which looks best inside domed stadiums.

White road jerseys will be mixed with either white or black pants. I hate black pants. At least they have the stripes.

Fortunately the all white look is in right now, though I'm sure the Falcons will wear the black pants more than I'd like. No black alternate jersey was unveiled. Not a huge fan of the numbers, though they're an improvement over the old ones. Some people couldn't tell the 1's from the 7's. 

The same throwback uniform was pictured: red helmets, black jersey. Thank goodness.  

Hard to get good french fries these days. Ceil is really liking the fries these days. Earlier this week she served up a big plate of fries. Whenever I have fries with a meal, I always eat them first, while they are still hot. C is liking slaw as well. Monday night she fixed a slaw with grilled chicken in it. Pretty good. 

Ceil went to to the gym two straight days. She needs to. Tuesday I ran / walked for an hour, did the sauna for 30 minutes, then cooled down with 30 more minutes on the treadmill. For some reason my face was burning every time I wiped sweat off my face. Not sure why.

A lady in the sauna was wearing a bucket hat because her friend said it would keep her head cooler, and she would be able to stay in the sauna loner. She said it didn't work. I mentioned that she should put a cabbage leaf inside the hat, but didn't explain that back in the day that's what ballplayers would do to keep cool. She kept talking to everyone about her hat. There were six of us crammed in the sauna. Time for me to leave. I joked "I just can't stay in here any more, with you wearing that hat!" Everyone laughed. I left. 

Tuesday: after the gym I went to Whattaburger again. Was going to get just the free burger, but instead got fries and a drink as well. The fries were just okay. All afternoon we worked to declutter. It is a slow go. We did sit outside in the sun for 20 minutes. Vitamin D.

Wednesday: I watched the rocket launch just after 6:30. Then I got dressed for small group, then Winnie wanted to go outside. Still made it to small group on time. Didn't get home until 10 pm.

Alton Brown's favorite place to eat steak in Atlanta: the Blue Ridge grill in Buckhead. 

The number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions are increasing. 

Mysterious spike in meteors warrants serious investigation.

More and more people are saying that aliens and UFOs are actually demons. There are also reports of secret programs to breed a race of alien / human hybrids.  

 

FRANK CHANCE [SABR Bio] was the first California native inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was born in Fresno in 1876,  and was the Yankees manager in 1913 & 1914. They finished 7th & 6th in the AL (out of 8 teams). He entered the HOF 21 years after his death, in 1954. In 1906, he led the Cubs to a 116-36-3 record and a NL pennant while stealing a major-league-leading 57 bases. From 1900-1910, Chance was HBP an average of 11.6 times a season. During five of those years, the league leader was Boston’s Dan McGann.

"Solitude, silence, and the strait keeping of the heart, are the foundations and grounds of a spiritual life." —Robert Leighton (1611–84).