Oh you know it!!
This is a holiday in our House Hold! I have cooked tail gate food all afternoon and the beer is on ice. Smirnoff for me but Bud for the hubby.
I love the game, the commercials and the fact that we can yell and holler for a good time.
Have fun Y'all.
Good luck Hawk Eye man, though I have a couple of Steeler friends as well.

I now own the complete works of Calvin and Hobbes! (Thanks Honey!)
I admire Bill Waterson immensely. He has a creative mind that he is able to use the medium of Calvina and Hobbes to generate thought to reflect upon.
Bill refused to use a general syndicate for his works for several reasons. You can read an article he wrote at this site concerning why he refuses to syndicate Calvin and Hobbes. http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cheapening.html
If you haven't read any of Calvin & Hobbs, you may want to look into it. It is far from a typical cartoon. Bill manages to use the characters to debate of host of issues and using Calvin as the central of this format is rewarding since Calvin is the walking embodiment of the human id, basically a good kid who can't control his impulses. Standing at his side is Hobbes, his stuffed tiger, who embodies the superego. You will find that Bill never settled on a strip until the whole reflection is included, there has not been another strip like it since or before. His humor is mature, yet childlike in nature.
Bill Waterson refused to make Calvin and Hobbes a walking and talking cartoon. Most, if not all, products that have Calvin or Hobbes pictures on them are bootlegged. (This includes the sticky on the cars of Calvin peeing, you would find that Calvin was above this, it is too low for him, he has a classy but raw edge.) Bill is interested in his cartooning as an art form and a format to discuss issues, not a way to gather cheap money.
I like that Bill does not like the celebrity 'thing.'He is a private person and prefers it that way. I admire him for that, we are all just human, none greater or smaller. We all have a gift to offer, why is one greater than the other for it?
Anyways, I just appreciate his works and wouldn't mind having lunch with him, he intrigues me.

A Quote from Calvin:
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of
it has tried to contact us.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hermann Hesse

I took a personality test for a friend who is taking a psych class, here is my result. I thought it would be fun to post.
IDEALIST NFs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in DIPLOMATIC INTEGRATION. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations are usually teaching and counseling (NFJ mentoring), or conferring and tutoring (NFP advocating). And they would if they could be sages in one of these forms of social development. The Idealist temperament have an instinct for interpersonal integration, learn ethics with ever increasing zeal, sometimes become diplomatic leaders, and often speak interpretively and metaphorically of the abstract world of their imagination.

They are proud of themselves in the degree they are empathic in action, respect themselves in the degree they are benevolent, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are authentic. Idealist types search for their unique identity, hunger for deep and meaningful relationships, wish for a little romance each day, trust their intuitive feelings implicitly, aspire for profundity. This is the "Identity Seeking Personality" -- credulous about the future, mystical about the past, and their preferred time and place are the future and the pathway. Educationally they go for the humanities, avocationally for ethics, and vocationally for personnel work.

Social relationships: In their family interactions they strive for mutuality, provide spiritual intimacy for the mates, opportunity for fantasy for their children, and for themselves continuous self-renewal. Idealists do not abound, being as few as 8% and nor more than 10% of the population.

My dad is a weathered man.He worked hard his whole life and yet never felt that he wasted any time. He is an ethical and moral man.
His childhood was a hard one. He was literally ripped from his home and sent to live with a sister and brother in law who was cruel and beat him. After suffering for many years, he ran away and joined the army. He later met my mom and married her.
I didn't know the harsh details of his childhood until recently, and when I asked why we never knew before, he said he didn't live in the past, he likes today. He also said that he came to realize that the past taught him what he didn't want to be, so he could then choose for the better.
My father is not a weak man, he confronts when he needs to and holds his convictions to a fault, but I love that about him.
Growing up we were not wealthy but we never said we were poor. That is because hard working, honest people are never poor. We had wealth in other ways. Dad never balked to play with us. Our vacations centered around the family. And we learned from a very early age that blood was thicker than water.
Dad doesn't want to hear you whine, because if your whining you are not helping, you are now part of the problem.
I remember once a nephew of my mom's came to visit. He started a conversation that my father disagreed on and when my dad gave his standpoint, he got angry and told my dad to "step outside" with him. Dad got up and walked to the door, waited for him to step outside, then closed the door in his face and locked it. My brother and I were astounded and my brother said "aren't you going to fight him." Dad picked up his newspaper and said,"heck no, your mom would be mad, it's her sister's kid."
Yet I seen him stand up to a big man when the guy said something inappropriate to my mom. My dad was poised and ready, his forearms were huge from working wrenches everyday, he was a heavy duty mechanic.
Dad had this law, if you tell him first if you did something wrong,your punishment was a lot less then if he learned of it somewhere else.
My dad lost his hearing in one ear due to his childhood neglect and it is irreversible, and now his other ear is not as good as it once was, whenever he answers the phone he assumes I say "What's up with you?" Because the rest of the family always says that. But all I ever say is Hi dad, How are you? But he always answers and says "The ceiling. When are you going to learn that?" I never correct him but just laugh, someday I will miss it.
My dad went through two types of cancer and it was a rough ride, but he made it, and from this event I have a favorite memory.
Because of his hearing, dad took me to listen to the doctor, he wanted to make sure he understood what was being said.
The doctor stated to dad,"The cancer will return." Dad nodded. The doctor said, "Do you understand what this means Sir, it means you are terminal." Dad nodded and stood up and took the doctor's hand in his to shake it and said"You realize you are terminal as well?"
The doctor paused and dad gathered his coat and we left.
My dad found out today that he is still showing no signs of cancer and it has been 8 years from that day.