What was on? The Pro Bowl. I am a big NFL fan. Dorothy and I each own 1/68,000th of the stadium in Nashville and we haven’t missed a Titans game since they moved to Tennessee. But, the NFL screwed up this year with the Pro Bowl. I am pretty sure the commissioner doesn’t care what I think, but here is what should happen to undue this mess. First, move the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii. The Pro Bowl is supposed to be different. Playing in Hawaii and in a neutral stadium makes it different. The players in the Pro Bowl always take their families for a vacation after the long season – Miami is not bad, but Hawaii is a real vacation. Second, the Pro Bowl must be played after the Super Bowl not before. I understand that we don’t want to extend the season into March, so playing the Pro Bowl between the playoffs and the Super Bowl saves time, but I have a better solution. Stop playing four pre-season games. Nobody likes those last pre-season games – they look like a Colts game in week 15 – all the stars are on the bench. Someone always gets hurt and ends their season for a meaningless game. So replace the fourth pre-season game with the first regular season game. The first game that counts would be played in August and that would shift the whole season around so that we would be playing the Super Bowl this week and the Pro Bowl the following week – as it should be. I saw that of the 87 players voted to the Pro Bowl, only 56 are going to actually play in the Pro Bowl. The other 31 are either on the Colts or Saints and are waiting for next week, or have decided that another trip to Miami wasn’t worth it. We are left with a Semi-Pro Bowl at best. And while we are at it, stop playing a regular season NFL game in London, England! I hold my breath every year when the schedule comes out hoping that a Titans home game is not stolen from us. That game is just not fair to the fans who have invested in their home town teams. And one more thing – Go ahead and move the Jacksonville Jaguars to Los Angeles – it is inevitable anyway. The Jacksonville fans had their chance and blew it. When the Jags go to LA they should switch divisions to the AFC West and the Kansas City Chiefs should switch to the AFC South in their place. The Chiefs play in Missouri which has a common border with Tennessee so geographically it makes sense. The only other alternative is to expand the league to 34 teams and put brand new teams in London and Los Angeles. London joins the AFC East. LA joins the NFC West. I really don’t like this alternative because it messes up the schedule balance we have now, but a twice yearly game between the New England Patriots and the London Red Coats would be interesting. But like I said, the commissioner is probably not listening to me. The AFC did win the Pro Bowl and Chris Johnson scored the winning touchdown.
Weather Report. The deep freeze continues. Last week I showed you the photos I took while flying over the Monteagle Winery. Their vineyard is small, but not the smallest. I have the world's smallest vineyard - only three plants! For the last two years I have been growing Chianti in the courtyard, behind the grill. This is the year, it may actually produce grapes, but icicles were hanging from the grapevines today. A thaw is predicted today - Paul
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