My dear, didn’t you mean “My sweet Lord”? Y’know — Beatles, George (the philosophical one)????

*sproing*

If I may bring my more primitive emotions under control (deep. . . cleansing. . . breath),
one can only stare in slack-jawed admiration at a 39-year-old man who can still play at the NFL level with such skill and grace. I wish things had worked out for him to still be at Green Bay, but he is amazing. Aaron Rogers is coming along well, and he’ll be one of the best some day.

Now, I must go and light a candle before the shrine of St. Lombardi, and recite the Litany of the Saints: (intoning) “Starr and Hornung and Kramer and Gregg and Dowler and Pitts and Nitschke. ora pro nobis. . .”

caligirl & VZ: That’s why I came up with ping pong or some other physical sport, as I suspect these guys may not be chess material. Golf is a possibility… I am HORRIBLE at it, but I don’t do football well either. LOL! However, maybe we should think of something that has a more rapid pace. We wouldn’t want to get bored, and it would be fun to see these 250lb guys doing something completely out of character. This takes me back to the dancing suggestion – I could teach them line dances. They’re not as precision as the Dancing with the Stars thing, and would still be hilarious.

btw what are your thoughts on Favre now playing for the Vikings? my dad is a big sports nut, so I too, like Blondie was watching sports from the womb. mom’s fave team is (still) the Packers even w/ no Favre.

this post still makes me BEEP x 10 even the next day!

thanks for asking. Glad to hear from ya.
Peace.

John McGivern evid now has a website(see below).
He grew up in Minnesooooota (poss specifically Milw…??? not certain of that). In their family, if one brother was gonna be a football player, then the other brother was *of course* expected to become a Priest. And actually, he did attend seminary in a serious manner for quite some time. That is what made some later not-funny events wistful & put him into a perspective, of considering deeply the events up to that point.

I saw (either) 2 or 3 of his one-man shows (NOT the stage shows F. Plaid, etc, with other cast members) in Tampa, Florida (where he first developed a substantial following as a prominent storyteller) and they are ABSOLUTELY the most insightful thing I ever saw on any stage (mind you, I don’t follow operas & such, so I CERTAINLY haven’t seen all the range of possible performance material).

In Tampa (which has a pretty healthy G/L/T & associated people/ friends/ relatives population) his shows were really very popular ; I believe that most of them sold out multiple times… I never spoke with one person, who went to either of those one-man shows (nor did I ever come across any media article about those two shows) that was disapppointed that they had spent the ticket money.

Truly I find his insights AND humor to be of the caliber of Geo Carlin, in scholarly focus but then slapstick punchlines (not all of the story has punchlines though) If I’m not breaking any Innernet rules, here is his website:

htttp:// johnmcgivern.com

(Editors, I won’t feel indignant if you need to zap this comment or delete the webpage)

And here is rather his Philosophy/ Thesis Statement, and, presumably, Why He Does What He Does:

“The sooner we all can begin to realize: that what we share, & that what is similar,
is greater than what’s not; & the sooner we can all begin to embrace our similarities and truly begin to respect what’s different, that’s when things get easier.”

Hoping that not too many peeps mind my use of this much space my listing his webpage.
Glad to meet the “Recovering Ex-Catholics” at CO !!! Very meaningful to me, to know that there are peeps who are BOTH CO afficianados AND R. Ex-C’s !!

‘K — stick a fork in me; I’m done (for this topic ennyway)
Thanks Ed’s & peeps for your indulgence

On with Cuteness!!