Musings and Amusings

Here's some random thoughts:

Plano East vs Plano football game on Friday night (Plano won, 28-14)

O The Plano East defense played much better. Did they read my blog entry from last Friday night?

O The winning touchdown pass was a perfect throw from Meger. It's the kind of crushing play at the right time that Plano used to execute almost every year against the Panthers.

O The pivotal play of the game was Plano's cornerback blitz sack of Riko Smalls with the clock winding down in the first half and East inside the Plano 20. There were no points on that drive; East tried to get the field goal unit on the field since they had no timeouts left. A spike of the ball would have been the right call.

O Plano's quarterback, Carson Meger, didn't self-destruct. Riko did: 2 interceptions and numerous other bad throws. What's happened to him? He was all-world in the first half of the season.

O Even Gerald Brence out-coached Johnny Ringo!

O Plano made the plays and had the athletes. Congratulations to them. I hope they go far in the playoffs.

O By my calculations, East, if it makes the playoffs (there could be a 5-way tie for third place), will face either Rockwall or Naaman Forest. You've got to worry about how the Panthers will play after their spotty defensive and offensive play the last few weeks.

O On Shoe Goop (the tube of stuff used to repair tennis shoes)
Is it just me, or does it smell like and look like the model airplane glue you used as a kid?

O ZZ Top concert on Thursday night (with Jeni, my daughter)
I have officially entered the old codger's zone. The music was too loud, even from the next-to-the-back-row center balcony seats we started in. Also, I sic'ed security on the pot-smoking, beer-drinking, profanity-speaking, finger-raising, loud fans who wouldn't sit down in the balcony seats in front of us. Even though it was loud, you couldn't hear the music or the gravelly-voiced singing clearly from up there (it was in the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie). We moved, and the sound and sight-lines were much better from the side seats lower down. After about 4 songs, all the 'Top songs sound the same, except for the Tres Hombres ones. We left after the 2nd encore, La Grange, to beat the traffic. Jeni wasn't impressed with this old, bearded band.