Flock. Out. Of. Here. N.O. here I come…see YOU in 2017.

Thoughts for the day before I exit stage left.  New Orleans, one block from Bourbon during NYE, is probably not exactly a spot where I feel like waking up and talking to you all.  Last one until Tuesday night…maybe Wednesday.  With  LOTS to say when I return…let’s move.

1. Reason going?  Spontaneous decision to go see Lindsey’s Sooners at the Sugar Bowl…about 30 minutes after they beat Oklahoma State, and the rest of the trip was just built around that.
2. I need a flow chart for which NBA players are supporting the refs and which ones are dissing them.
3. I have a streaky, addictive personality.  Latest one?  I made an extensive Google doc for work for my industry, and suddenly decided to make a Google doc for EVERYTHING in my life.
4. Then, I downloaded an app for Google docs so I can see them all (me doing stuff on my phone besides calling, texting, and checking ESPN is…crazy)
5. Hope you are sitting down.  Google doc created for my blog.  Legal piece of paper not as much needed now…
6. Not going totally digital in 2017, but I plan on aligning a lot more stuff.  Droid.  Google.  Let’s do this.
7. If UVA makes noise this year in basketball, it could be the best demonstration of addition by subtraction in a while.  Lost my preseason star, Austin Nichols.  Now, aside from WVA, they are destroying people (including Louisville at HOME) with no one averaging more than 10 points per game.  All of them can defend.  All can score at any point in game.  All are not afraid.
8. I don’t remember an upset being so well telegraphed as the Oregon upset over UCLA.  Most saw it coming.  Tough place to play against a decent team.
9. Was Debbie Reynolds Carrie Fisher’s MOM?  Wow.  What a shitty week for THAT family.  And we are ALL glad 2016 is done just because of the celebrity/ sports hero losses.
10. Oh, Richard Sherman, you are treasured.  Cancel your presser.  Ok.  You are in control.  Ugghhh.
11. I think he has successfully completed inventing a ghetto character…who went to Stanford.
12. Who DIDN’T George Karl take a shot at in his new book?  Geez.  Lillard didn’t even play for him for one single second.  Kid is doing nothing wrong but trying to be a cornerstone of a franchise devoid of talent.
13. Coolest thing about Bill Snyder winning against A&M in a bowl game was the players pouring CONFETTI not Gatorade on him probably for fear he might have a heart attack and join the other dying souls of 2016.
14. I get the feeling that the pressers with Lane Kiffin will become SHORTER at his new gig.  Dude gets left by the buses way too many times.
15. I think the media is right.  Swinney, accent and all, might be the next coming of Bobby Bowden.
16. I am already on record that Clemson beats Ohio State and Bama beats Washington.
17. Crazy that the spread though for the Bama game is down to 13.5 from 17.  Big drop.  As Worm would say from Rounders…”LOTS of action.”
18. I wonder if the pre-nupt for Serena and the Reddit founder is that her secrets can NOT be released on the counter to Deadspin site.
19. Suicide or not, the Salaam story is sad.  Not like anyone in the Boulder area would EVER lay a hand on that dude for what he did for CU.
20. Could have used him against OSU though…THAT is for sure.
21. I think time is running out for me in my prime years, but damn I wish I could go on Twitter and bet fancy automobiles as betting leverage for receiving yards for the year.  Pay up, Marshall.
22. My favorite story of the last couple of days?  EASILY the fact that an Arkansas player got a $450 gift card for Belk before the BELK BOWL and STILL got busted for shoplifting.
23. Getting excited.  #1 San Diego.  #2 New Orleans #3 Boston.  Going to #2.  Been there about 20-30 times and the place does NOT suck.
24. In college, for ROTC, no one wanted to carry around a bass drum for an entire parade.  I didn’t care.  I did it for all of my years.  Why?  Free trip to Mardi Gras.
25. Just go to New Orleans.  Doesn’t matter for what.  Mardi Gras is fun but overrated in the way that you can barely walk or have your space.  I like my space to a point.
26. But the ____ all around you do not suck.  And watching beads become a form of actual currency is electric to watch.
27. No intern yet.  And no time soon.  Sorry for any grammatical errors.
28. I seriously don’t GET it.  I pay for Early Bird, chomp at the bit to check in online for Southwest AGAIN, and get A47.  Ugghhh.  The ONLY thing that sucks about that airline.  You people better save me the exit row.
29. I am not as much mystified that Arkansas lost their bowl game against VA Tech after being up 24-0.  I am mystified because they didn’t score A POINT in the second half.
30. If the media doesn’t tell me who the Cowboys QB is Sunday, I am absolutely FINE with it.  Ugghhh.  I almost am sad America’s Team is good again.
31. UCONN women bball team is RE-exerting their influence in a year we all thought there were other contenders.  Took out #4 MD most recently.
32. I have thought about this.  There are things that are CLOSE in life for making me happy.  But, I think free pizza is like the UCONN women and unblemished year after year.  Our CEO got us free pizza today and it made my day.
33. I don’t think it was a column last year, but I am really enjoying it each week.  Check out Zach Lowe’s Ten Things…on ESPN about the NBA.  Great stuff.
34. I am honestly not sure if the article about the Raiders not playing Aldon Smith is a repeat article or if ESPN just needed another wire filler.  No pun intended.
35. So, Watkins and McCoy are complaining about Rex Ryan’s lack of discipline NOW?  Come on.  His “discipline” I don’t think was the problem.
36. By the way, I personally like FSU tonight against Michigan.  No reason at all except that FSU has the athletes to compete easily, and they will play more pissed off as that Louisville loss earlier in the season STILL smarts.
37. I was going to put in some fun pics to further illustrate my blog, but then figured that my NEXT blog will most likely be photo overload.  Let’s wait it out.
38. Whenever you feel like you haven’t accomplished your dreams, add insult to injury by thinking about how Steph Curry’s Oakland Strong sneakers went on eBay for $30k.  Yikes.
39. Rockin’ NYE Central time zone is at Jackson Square, where I will BE and where I proposed to my wife.  Not sure why I am telling you that, but just know #twocatmark is jamming it out.
40. Not too much jamming.  I already did THAT in my trips to Mardi Gras back in the day and somehow made it out each time unscathed by the law.
41. Odd that I go crazy on Instagram for trip weekends but go kind of dark on Twitter.  Maybe my new intern in 2017 can assist.  I mean, this IS Kramerica.
42. As I am writing this, I believe Air Force just tied it up.  True, it is just South Alabama, but think they were down, right?  I don’t know.  I was working dammit.
43. The Nebraska-Tennessee winner basically says we were the winner of the losing cause of dark horse playoff contenders that never came to be.
44. I like LSU over Louisville.  Much more pissed off talent.
45. I think Florida WORKS Iowa.
46. (I am on hiatus from betting until 2017-hope all of these predictions are WRONG)
47. I think USC WORKS Penn State to quiet all of this playoff talk with PSU.  USC is the team that everyone wanted to avoid the last 8 weeks of the season.
48. I will ROOT for Western Michigan against Wisconsin, but got a feeling Wisconsin is just too big, too fast, too strong.
49. Weird trip.  I can’t wear any of my UVA gear because then I am THAT guy.  The guy who wears OTHER teams gear when at an event where the team is NOT playing.  So, my write off is that I can wear UVA on the plane because their bball team plays midday.  THEN, I switch to either OU gear or NO sports gear.  There are RULES, people.
50. Wife about to get home and we are going to a brief happy hour before finishing last minute stuff for trip.  Flight is in the morning and it will be a long weekend.  So…
51. That’s it for today.  Hope you enjoyed or are at least more informed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.  Onward and upward.  Peace.
52. Just a tagline.  As one shepherd said to the other shepherd, I am getting the flock OUT OF HERE.  Peace (again).  Talk to you next week.  Follow me on Instagram if you want to know what I am doing.
53. Oh, and Boomer Sooner…