The Way Things Ought To Be!

Every once in a while everything just lines up perfectly and for one small moment in time, some THING is just about as good as it can be. Sadly these moments in our lives are for the most part few and far between. You know them when you see them. Let's paint a picture.

There's just the right amount of sea breeze blowing in the open sliding glass door on the tenth floor of the ocean front hotel room you're staying in on your June vacation. Full moon, light mariachi music from a resort two hotels down at 11:30pm 78 degrees. All while you're standing on the balcony over looking the moon beams on the water. Perfect? You bet. How about some more.

Listening to a soft jazz quartet in a dimly lit bar at 2AM. Hearing Bing Crosby sing White Christmas in front of the fireplace on a snowy Christmas eve night that you don't have to drive in. Elvis singing The American Trilogy on the 4th of July at the BBQ while watching fireworks. And there are simpler ones too. Tom Hanks in Forest Gump, Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and getting that isle seat on a flight NOT the red eye to Vegas for that one hundred dollar round trip you found. It's just the way things ought to be.

Well it looks like this weekend we could have another one of those moments. Thanks to the NFL's NFC Championship game with the Giants and the Packers at (come on.... say it with me...Laaaambeauuuu Field) The date will be January 20th. The starting time is 6pm. It's going to be about 0 degrees, windy, frigid cold and a sloppy field. 38 year old Brett Favre could be playing his final game in a small market city where he's set every NFL QB record over the last 15 years or so. All while playing for a team that is owned by its citizens and season ticket holders. Is it me, or isn't this the real reason we watch football? It couldn't be more perfect.

Next it's two OLD NFL franchises. The Giants and the Packers. (no expansion teams in this game.) An old stadium, grass. The old QB and the young one. It's a Championship game.....zero degrees. It has the makings of a game that will be talked about as much as the Ice Bowl played with the Packers and Cowboys in the late 60's. Again, at Laaaambeeeauuu Field. That was a championship game too and might be the NFL's most famous game ever. (Packers won.) It is certainly more famous than ANY Superbowl. I promise you no matter who wins this game or the Superbowl, THIS is the game you'll remember in June, the June after that, and so on and so forth.

With field turf, indoor stadiums, retractable roofs, and neutral sites for big games, we may have forgotten why we really love football. Forget fancy uniformed expansion teams in exotic, trendy warm weather cities with state-of -the-art stadiums that serve sushi and two pump lattes. This weekend beer drinkin', kielbasa cookin' Lambeau Field once again will remind us that things that are pure, are things that endure.

It's all lining up. It's going to be one of those moments when you're sitting in your recliner in front of your fireplace.....warm...with your slippers on and your unending supply of food watching this classic that sometimes things are just about as good as they can be.

But you know...the whole hotel scene at the top of this page ain't too bad either.