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The USFL and springtime football is back.

Of course, it will never work. Makes way too much sense.

I will have the president and CEO of the new USFL on my talk show t0oday at 1:30 on TribLive Radio.

Here’s what Chris Matthews once said of Sarah Palin:

“Is this [vice presidential debate] about her brain power?… Do you think cute will beat brains?…Do you think she’d do better on the questions on Jeopardy! or the interview they do during a half-time?…My suspicion is that she has the same lack of intellectual curiosity that the President of the United States has right now and that is scary!”

“Senator, do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States?…If she were on Jeopardy! right now and the topic was national government, American government generally defined, would she look like an imbecile, or would she look okay? Does she know anything?”

“I’d like to see her on just a couple of episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy! or It’s Academic Mac McGarry to just see if she knows anything.”

Chris was on “Jeopardy” last night and made Sarah Palin look like Margaret Thatcher.

Toast.

Now I’m told that this domain registration could take four or five days.
So, thanks for your patience.

I’ll start posting again here Thursday while I wait for the change to go through.

Thanks again.

We’re doing some remodeling here at Just Watch The Game. We may be down for a day. When we come back we’ll have a different look.

Thanks for hanging in there.

STILL WAITING FOR GO DADDY TO CHANGE THE DOMAIN REGISTRATION….THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE.

This is one of the most terrifying stories I’ve seen in a long, long time.

There’s a craze sweeping the country. Grown men are becoming obsessed with little toy ponies and a show called “My Little Pony.”

That’s right. While (you would hope) most men will be talking about the NFL draft, the Stanley Cup playoffs and maybe even the presidential election, there’s a growing group of men out there who are fascinated by an animated show intended for pre-school girls.

And, of course, the author of the story and the creator of the show think that this is a sign that men are evolving. In a good way.

“This might be a little short-sighted on my part, but I just assumed that any adult man who didn’t have a little girl wouldn’t even give it a try,” Faust said in a phone interview. “The fact that they did and that they were open-minded and cool enough and secure in their masculinity enough to embrace it and love it and go online and talk about how much they love it — I’m kind of proud.”

Faust brings up a good point. Aside from a few brony-haters, blessedly very little (negative) hay seems to get made over dudes liking something that’s “supposed to be for girls” (like, for example, the way girls would be side-eyed for liking Transformers in years past).

Despite a tacit understanding that some people might be surprised by their choice of entertainment, most bronies show little to no compunction about their fandom. They shouldn’t have to. And, intentionally or not, they might be bucking the gender socialization of things considered to be “for girls” or “for boys.”

The feminization of America continues.

There was a time when grown men playing with toys made for little girls would have a net thrown over them and be taken away to a really nice place with lots of really nice men in white coats.

Not to be judgmental.

Here’s NHL.com’s Alan Robinson on the Penguins postmortem press conference today.

He’ll be my guest Wednesday at 1.00 on TribLive Radio.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=629520