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*I love the New Year! The holiday crush is over. I don’t have to spend money on gifts, food, plane tickets, train tickets or parking tickets. Family members have all gone their separate ways.
*I love the New Year! The holiday crush is over. I don’t have to spend money on gifts, food, plane tickets, train tickets or parking tickets. Family members have all gone their separate ways.
The ones you’ll miss and the ones you couldn’t wait to see down the road. Although I could do without the regular traffic (Holiday traffic in LA is ultra light), I love the return to business with a fresh sprit and a renewed sense of possibilities. January is also prime TV viewing.
My greatest expectations are for the NFL Playoffs and the countdown to the Super Bowl! (All of you who are not sports fans, you may want to skip ahead) I don’t miss a week of the NFL regular season.
Every Sunday, for seventeen weeks, I’m either at home or in a sports bar with 20 screens watching the NFL. The playoffs are the games all football fans have been waiting for. Then in roughly three weeks, the game everyone waits for, The Super Bowl! I’ve been to seven Super Bowls, and if I don’t go to the game I go to a Super Bowl party or host one myself. It never disappoints. Even if the game is a snoozer like in 1989, Super Bowl XXIV, when Joe Montana and the 49’ers CRUSHED John Elway and the Broncos, my Grandfather, Kadeem, Matt, Ty, Cleo and “The Terminator” (the name we gave to one of the State Troopers who escorted us on the trip) all had a great time in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The same is true watching on TV. I’ve never been to a Super Bowl party that wasn’t a great time.
Before the NFL takes center stage, college football has its National Championship, Thursday January 8th. This year’s game is particularly intriguing because more than any previous year, the BCS system is being exposed for the total scam that it is and no matter who wins, there will be no satisfaction. But before I digress too far on a BCS rant, back to more New Years delights.
Two weeks after the Super Bowl on February 15th, it’s the NBA All-Star game in Phoenix Az. LeBron, Kobe, KG , Paul, D.Wade, Shaq and all the games best will put on a show in the desert. Even though The Dunk contest has lost some of its luster and now the Three Point contest is the highlight, All-Star Saturday is appointment TV.
I also look to Hawaii, and the island of Maui for the first event of the 2009 PGA Tour. Even with Tiger Woods (the greatest active athlete on the planet) still on the sidelines recovering from knee surgery, now I watch the PGA Tour for one of its youngest stars, Anthony Kim. In addition to his talent, I knew ...
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Urban Thought Collective is a new digital community exploring everything from pop culture to politics from an African-American perspective. Darryl Bell is an actor and Chicago native, best known for his role in classic TV series “A Different World” and Spike Lee’s “School Daze.” His unique television commentary is exclusive to Urban Thought Collective.