Free Pass

For you attentive readers, you know that I have been boycotting watching NFL football games because of Roger Goodell's not disciplining those players either sitting or "taking a knee" during the playing of our National Anthem. We are about halfway through the season and I have yet to relent on this pledge ... as have also legions of other principled football fans ... as viewership has been seriously diminished ... see: CBS Local News Story.

Now however both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots have publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president. Consequentially, this development has given me a free pass once again to watch Patriot games ... but still none of the other NFL games. So this Sunday I will watch Brady throw a deflated football to Gronk as he humbles the Seattle Seahawks and their gaggle of kneelers. I might even have a beer and some pretzels ...

Deflategate

Zzzzzzzz ...

Three-Quarter Back

Tim Tebow just signed with the New England Patriots football team ... see: ESPN Story.  I will make an off-the-wall prediction about this acquisition.  Tim Tebow will not be playing quarterback for the Patriots ... except, very rarely, as a third-string backup.  I predict that Bill Belichick will use Tebow as a new and innovative type of running back ... bigger than a half-back (but almost as agile), but not as up-the-middle as a full-back.  I don't expect he will be on the offensive team most of the time ... but in special situations (maybe on-side kick-off returns) and for trick plays (running-back passes) or third-down long yardage situations..

As such, he will be dubbed a "three-quarter back."