XBOX Live

I just got XBOX Live, and already I am addicted. I have had XBOX for a while, but I didn't get the wireless adapter until recently. Without live, or without being with friends, XBOX wasn't that much fun. Now however there is the bonus of being able to play people from all over the world as well as your friends. Not only is there the ability to play against your friends, but you can also have conversations with eachother, or in parties, even if you are playing different games. Besides the gaming aspect, there is the XBOX Live marketplace. There you can buy game add-ons, tv shows, movies, music, and other cool stuff.

The Super Bowl, is it about the football or the comercials?

Yesterday night was one of the most important nights for TV station NBC. Hosting the Super Bowl is much more than just the right to the game, there becomes so much revenue and business that which is it more about? Each commercial ended up being $3,000,000 just for one thirty second spot. Now it is more for the sixty second ones, and more for the companies who had multiple commercials like Dorritos. Why is it becoming more about the commercials than the game? In some of the past years, I have been more excited about the commercials than the game itself, and I know I am not the only one who feels this way. For me, yesterday's game didn't get interesting until the last 5 minutes, except for the pick-six by Harrison earlier in the game. Unfortunately, the commercials have lost some of the touch that they had a couple years ago. There were still a couple good ones this year like the Career Builder one, and the Bud Light one, but for the majority the "Funniness Level" is dropping. Although NBC is obviously more willing to give spots to the higher paying companies for these slots, the companies themselves appear to be relaxing and not working as hard to become as funny. Part of that may be that there are more car commercials now, or maybe because of the number of movie trailers, or maybe it was just that there were much more beer commercials and they knew how to make funny commercials better, but the fact is that the legacy of the Super Bowl commercials is starting to diminish, which is taking away from the game itself if there aren't two teams you care a lot about.

Lions Go Win-less

At the beginning of the 2008 season the projections were that Atlanta was going to be bad, and that Miami might have another bad year. No one was expecting Detroit to be good, but no one was expecting them to have this bad of a season. Detroit was 7-9 last year, which is not awful, it is not great, but it is still decent. Detroit had a couple of decent draft picks, however none as influential on that team as Kevin Smith. He led their team this season with 976 rush yards, and he was third on the receiving list with 286 receiving yards. Calvin Johnson, the other main threat of the team was their receiving leader with 1331 yards, and he would have had a good partner, except after week 6 the other good receiver that the Lions had, Roy Williams, was traded to the Cowboys.
The Lions, who haven't have very many great draft choices the past few years will have the number 1 draft choice, unless they trade with some other team. The Lions, who have flipped quarterbacks multiple times this season, starting with Kitna then moving to Orlovsky, and finally to Culpepper might look towards the quarterbacks coming out of college as their number 1 choice.
Possibilities might be Sam Bradford, Mark Sanchez, Graham Harrell, but who knows how the rest of their draft might go, and even if they do have a good draft, how much will it change their team for next year?