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Seahawks were full clown shoes today, but still managed to pull out the win.  Their place kicker got absolutely blown up trying to make a tackle, so the punter had to step in for field goal duty.  Only problem is that the punter is the usual place holder for the field goal unit,  so a guy that hadn't done that since college had to do it.

So with two seconds left in the half, they try a field goal, and the inevitable happened.  Muffed place, guy tries to get up and run with it, then as he's being tackled, instead of just taking the hit, he tries to grenade lob it to someone else.  It's picked up and run back 75 yards for a TD.  I could year "Yackity Sax" being played, somewhere.

They also dropped the ball all over the field, something they typically don't do.   Anyway, they managed to win despite not playing well.  So that's good.

Well, maybe he doesn't get a bad rap tonight.  What is that, eleven picks?

They were running it, that's for sure, but just couldn't get into the end zone enough.

Tough week for football out here. 

That's the guy!  I think that record still stands, doesn't it?

No way was Seattle/SF going to be a shootout.  They are two run focused offenses with bone shaking running backs and absolutely brutal defenses.  They are really built similarly.   Kapernick's 4brazillion yards last week wasn't how they want to win games, but that was how they had to win games as Green Bay had taken their run away.   The niners and the Hawk's like to run the ball.   Anyway,  Seattle hasn't given up more than 20 since November of last year, so points in this one were going to be at a premium.   

That's twice in a row Seattle has laid a beating down on them, though, so I expect the week 14 matchup in Candlestick (or whatever they call it these days) to be an even tougher game.  Seattle should have Percy Harvin in the lineup by then, as well as Chris Clemons.  What is the word on Michael Crabtree?

And that stadium is absurdly loud.   

For football fans, football started last week when my Huskies stomped all over Boise State. 

For us NFL fans, yay!  It's time!

I will say that if the Seahawks play against SF like they did against Carolina today, they're going to get beat badly.   The interior line play on both sides of the ball was horrible.   Offensive linemen getting knocked over backwards by linebackers, no pass rush at all, stupid penalties, and when DeAngelo Williams can stuff it right down the middle of your defense, you know you have problems.

I can't believe Russell Wilson had 320 in that game.  He must have run seven miles while throwing it.  Carolina's front seven were all over him all day long.

That.  The whole point of tubes is to get them to distort.  That's when they sound fantastic.   If you aren't pushing the power envelope of the pre-amp and power amp, then you might as well run solid state.

Beer, top.  You might like it if you gave it a try. 

I just put five gallons of dirty, dirty blond into beugel bottles.   When I get the fridge in the garage, I'm kegging, like God intended.

I just hate long goodbyes...

*snif*

I have found that the degree to which the customer is right is directly proportional to the amount of money they are about to spend.  I spent the last portion of my career doing seven figure deals with your phone company, and you can bet that with that amount of scratch in play, they're going to be more right than you are every time.

I just started a new gig (trains this time, cool!) but I'm not on the sales side.  But since our biggest customers are also our owners, I'd imagine they're right most of the time, too.