Happy New Year every one!!! I hope you all had a good holiday season and refreshed for the New Year.
The National Hockey League presented the first outdoor game in the United States on New Year’s Day at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo. 71,217 fans attended the game and one sign in the crowd summed it up best “ LOOK MOM, NO ROOF”. The game did a 2.6 overnight Nielsen rating on NBC, which is the best regular season rating for an NHL game since 1996. This rating is comparable to the New Year’s Day bowl games that were down across the board from last year.
I think this was a great idea for the NHL, with the show coming down and the wind whipping around the stadium it made for great TV. I have read that a lot of people checked it out, which made new fans for a league that needs it. I hope the NHL does this again but I think they should do it every other year and do it in different cities. I think if you do it every year the novelty of it will wear off.
Breaking News:
The Miami Dolphins just fired Head Coach Cam Cameron. This is not news and definitely not breaking news. The Miami Dolphins were 1-15 this year. They just hired Bill Parcells as their Exec. Vice President of Football Operations who just fired GM Randy Mueller Monday so the Head Coach was next to go. The Dolphins yesterday named Jeff Ireland their new GM.
Today is the first presidential contest of the year, the Iowa Caucus. Both the Republican's and Democrat's races are too close to call. My predictions (sure to go wrong) are for Republican’s Mike Huckabee and for Democrat’s Barack Obama. It will be great political theater. Show starts at 7 P.M. Centeral Time, we should know who wins by 9 P.M. Eastern time.
That’s my take
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