For all those who have read this blog, it's been a long time. Been doing some stuff and have meant to update but just haven't gotten around to it. Seeing as I haven't updated in quite some time, a little house cleaning is in order. I'll get to sports in just a moment.
First off, went to Gulf Shores, AL for my annual trip about a week ago and spent about four days there. Man has it ever been wet down there but it was still a really good time even though the weather didn't exactly cooperate. All the places we ate at were solid, including the places we ate at on the way there and on the way back.
DeSoto's, the first place we ate at in Gulf Shores had really good coconut shrimp and a nice sauce. The Hangout, which is my personal favorite place to eat there, we did on Monday night and as usual it was rocking. They had some music there that night and we even had the Beer Barrel Polka not long after we walked in the door.
Wednesday night we had Red's, a nice seafood joint and we actually closed up the place. It was Ash Wednesday that day so we saved our big meal for late and were not disappointed. We had a lot of peel and eat shrimp though, more than I could handle and next time I'm going to split an order I think.
The places we ate at on the way there were great too. Prejean's in Lafayette, LA was awesome. Three words: Crawfish Boudin Balls. Those alone are worth going back for. And Louie and the Red Head Lady in Mandeville was a solid stop as well as it usually is.
Now to some house cleaning sports wise. Starting with football, and my disappointing teams. First off, regarding the Texans, you cannot begin to imagine the level of disappointment in the way the season ended. At 11-1, a lot of people in this town thought we had a legitimate look at the Super Bowl.
And then came the end of the season...four losses in the last six games and two drubbings by New England. We got served...no we got a fraudulent bill of goods. My feeling is this team will never go to the big game with those two named Schaub and Kubiak playing key roles on this team.
And then there's the Huskers. Oh, Huskers, how you make my heart hurt. Blowout losses to Ohio State and Wisconsin and a game against Georgia that slipped through our fingers. Sure, we had some nice recruiting but we're still chasing Urban Meyer and Ohio State which is not a comforting feeling.
Regarding the Super Bowl: As a Houston fan I hate the Ravens but Jim Harbaugh can't be complaining to officials about losing that game. Hell the way I see it the game was about to slip away from San Francisco until the power outage. I hope he finally got over it because the better team did win.
On college basketball, I don't think I've ever seen a year where there is this much parity. I can think of about 15 teams off the top of my head that could go the distance. I do think a team from the Big Ten has the inside track to win...any of about four or five teams...because of how difficult the conference is. It's not like last year where Kentucky was miles better than everyone else.
I'll have another blog post soon. Until next time...
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