Without referring to it by name, and thus inviting a flood of “card game” related spam to this site, the “certain card game where you bet alot of money and are really cool if you play it better than the rest of the frat boys” craze is out of control. Today, its on NBC. I could understand when ESPN showed the championship of this game, and then ran it out there again this year, but even they’ve over done it. It’s proving to be ratings gold for the lesser cable networks that have nothing to do with said card game, as well.

You know it’s out of control when even a novice player (like myself and the three times total I’ve played this game in my life) is annoyed that they have to slowly go over the rules and tricks of the game at the top of every show. The people left watching five minutes into your show know how its played, and the rest of the nation has changed the channel. Either with their remote, or with a handgun.

And now NBC is promoting more of said game on their network in May. Please make it stop.

Since I’ve made a habit of missing horribly on score predictions, I could probably avoid the Super Bowl, but what fun would that be?

While I still can’t figure out what is the lesser of two evils, a Philadelphia fan base that is just itching to become the “Boston” of the next decade if they can’t get over the championship hump, or the current “Boston” of this decade, um…Boston.

If the Patriots win, we can finally let everyone pretty much agree that they can be called a “dynasty”, which everyone and their sister has been itching to do anyway, after winning two Super Bowls (impressive), but missing the playoffs entirely in the year they didn’t win the Super Bowl (not so impressive, the Browns even made the playoffs that year). If they lose, we’re going to hear about how “it would be too much for the Patriots and Red Sox to win titles within 4 months or whatever, and no one should get to have that much joy, and man that was a great handie my dad gave me after the Super Bowl win.” (Sorry, there I go quoting Bill Simmons again.)

On the other hand, if the Eagles win, I think they’ll take their title and love it for awhile, then maybe shut up, and NOT act as if the world owes them one more for every year they waited for this one. That and we’d get to see if Terrell Owens will go find Chuck Bednarik and shove the Lombardi trophy up his ass. That could be some “must see TV” for NBC to trot out there. Also, if the Eagles win, we get to hear Jason Mulgrew write about how he deflowered some luncheon meat and a parking meter. I don’t think it makes me totally gay to really want to read that. At least I hope it doesn’t, because its bound to be some damn funny stuff.

But, as far as predictions go, I’ll stick with what I said earlier this morning… New England wins it 23-14.