There is a lot of ground to cover today. The solution is News And Views, a combined sports and real world edition. We will start with sports.
NEWS: The Kansas City Swifts lost again Sunday, falling to 6-7 late in the season and supposedly having only a 14.2 percent chance of making the NFL playoffs for the 11th consecutive season.
VIEWS: They are flying the flags at half-mast around NFL headquarters at the prospect of no months-long postseason hero worship of the Swifts and the obligatory TV shots of the reason the franchise changed its nickname, that eternal adolescent songstress cheering for her guy on the Swifts roster. Can the NFL intervene and save the Swifts? Stay tuned.
NEWS: Notre Dame didn’t make the national championship playoff field, so the Fighting Irish are taking their football and staying home regarding a bowl appearance.
VIEWS: Much like the K.C. Swifts, Notre Dame seems to get the nod anytime the decision is close, and often when it isn’t close at all. Hell, in my youth, Michigan State and Notre Dame, both unbeaten, played to a 10-10 tie late in the 1966 season and, wait for it, Notre Dame ended up as the national champion according to the major polls because . . . Notre Dame. There were no playoffs back then. Fast-forward to 2025 and Notre Dame won’t lower itself to be in a conference for football, but aligns its other teams with the ACC. Now, Notre Dame is irked because the ACC went public noting that full-time ACC member Miami deserved the playoff nod over Notre Dame because Miami beat Notre Dame in a head-to-head match, had more wins vs. Top 25 opposition, and has a similar strength of schedule. The head-to-head always spoke loudest to me. It’s the preferred tiebreaker across sports when there is a two-way tie for something. The fact that Notre Dame is so petulant about not getting the favored status to which it is accustomed, speaks volumes.
NEWS: The Steelers rose from the dead and beat the Baltimore Ravens to take the lead of the AFC North, admittedly at a modest 7-6.
VIEWS: I only watched a bit of the game, but I read the Steelers got the benefit of the doubt on several close plays. I ask, where was this assistance when the Steelers and I needed it against Buffalo?
NEWS: A Minnesota state senator is claiming he has proof Congress member Ilhan Omar married her brother to keep him in the United States, among other alleged misdoings by Omar.
VIEWS: You mean to tell me you’re alleging a Somali in Minnesota committed fraud? Unbelievable.
NEWS: A Somali in Maine is being accused of Medicaid fraud, with the misbegotten funds being sent to the homeland for military use.
VIEWS: I often wondered what attracted Somali immigrants from their home country, a virtual desert, to northern climes such as Minnesota and Maine, with brutal cold and snow. Could lax left-wing leadership and freedom to pillage be the reason?
NEWS: President Trump has posted that Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has yet to read the latest peace proposal.
VIEWS: Perhaps the tiny guy is too busy looking at travel brochures for Minnesota and Maine.
NEWS: The Muslin Brotherhood, which Trump would like designated as a terrorist group, has proclaimed publicly its expectation to have 50 members of U.S. Congress within six years and use that to control this once-great nation.
VIEWS: George W. Bush can stick his “Islam, the religion of peace” tripe where the sun doesn’t shine.
NEWS: Clueless Joe Biden, whose handlers inexplicably keep sticking in front of microphones at public events, was at it again last week, proclaiming this nation is “Amerigotit.”
VIEWS: Can you really expect better from the guy who couldn’t find his way off stages, referred to Kamala Harris as “vice-president Trump,” told a South Carolina audience during his presidential campaign he was running for senator, and called Zelenskyy Putin at a NATO summit?
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