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Random Thoughts
by Rachel (Scardno007@aol.com)

I'm sitting in a chair watching the AFC Wild Card game today, and I find myself wanting the Bills to win over the Dolphins...simply because Dean was supposed to play for them before the "knee incident."

I mean, sure, Dan Marino is good, but we Coloradoans have sort of a thing against him for being the #1 quarterback in passing yards, ahead of our own John.

Oh, look, another turnover by the Bills. That's three so far...and it's only the 3rd quarter. But on the other hand, they *are* ahead by one point... Now I find myself wishing Dean was in there with them, making a couple interceptions just to stir those Dolphins up. I don't particularly want Miami playing the Broncos again...we all saw how in the two games where they played each other over the span of about 13 years, Miami won both of them. Sure, it would be fun to see Denver whip the Dolphins, *but*..... I don't want to take the chance. Of course, if Miami *does* win this game, there's a pretty good chance that they'll play Denver again...what's the odds of them beating Denver again? I don't know...I guess we're just going to have to find out, considering that now it 17 to 14 with 9 minutes left to go in the game....Miami has the 17 points by the way. I could make a pretty good bet that if Dean were out there, the Bills wouldn't be losing right now, am I right? Hehehe...

Sorry to say, but now I'm on a football streak...I was watching "It's a Small World After All" just yesterday, and I realized that Lois' friend, Joe, was played by Steve Young. Not only is it extremely ironic that Young played a quarterback, which he also is in real life (for the San Francisco 49ers), but his character's name, as mentioned before, was Joe... This reminds me of Joe Montana who is a former quarterback for the 49ers, also. I thought that was kinda funny, and then started wondering if they did that on purpose, just for kicks. Just wanted to share that with you...believe me, I'm not really that obssessed with football.

Who's gonna win the Florida St./Tennessee game??? Why, Florida St., of course! Not that you'd want to know, but even though my parents are both originally from Tennessee, and I spent 5 years there, we have a severe detest of anything related to the University of Tennesee. But as of late, I have become the only Vanderbilt fan in the household (probably the whole country, but who cares?). Don't get me wrong, Vanderbilt's football team sucks, but that's not the point. UT and Vanderbilt are rivals, and we always go for Vanderbilt, no matter what (Vanderbilt *has* beaten UT before, by the way...in the days of yore). Considering that the Fiesta Bowl is *not* between Vanderbilt and UT, we need to go for the team that UT is playing...in this case, Florida St. But my treacherous father is now deciding to go for UT...I nearly killed him. Okay, okay, I don't want Florida St. to win....I just want Tennessee to lose.

Oh, well, there's always the Vanderbilt Women's basketball team to look to. Even though they haven't beaten the UT Vols in a (ahem) long, long, time, that doesn't matter. We still have hope...well, *I* still have hope....and Dad's gonna rue the day he ever betrayed the ole Commodores!!!
-Rachel :)