College Football

It’s that time of year again, when good food is in the oven, family is over, presents are opened, and, in my house, the TV flips over to college football. Forget the holiday season, in my family, this is bowl season. Two west coast teams who barely managed to get six wins playing in the International Bowl in Canada? …Doesn’t matter, everyone can find a reason to vote for a team. Oh, you like how Southern South Dakota Tech’s jeseys look? Perfect! Now lets get ready to fight each other about it for the next 4 hours.

The biggest fans in the house in December are my uncle, my cousin and I. they will normally come over Christmas Eve and stay until New Year’s Day, when the most important games are played. We have a lot of fun discussing the games, a ton of pizzas are usually ordered, several trips to Sam’s Club for Tostitos and Salsa, and there are occasional small bets on the game if say, a Michigan team plays another Michigan team or a team from Ohio. And its then when you realize why sports are so popular, because it brings people together, they may not agree on who they want to win, but they all gather around the TV, and we all talk about the game.

Oh, gotta go, the games on….

5 TV Shows You'll Always Find on my DVR

1.The Office is a great show. It has a lot of haters but if you take the time to actually watch it and try to enjoy it, you'll laugh your pants off. The characters are absolutely hysterical, especially Dwight (my favorite). It has a plot, but its not a very strict plot and some shows don't really advance the storyline, but they will make the show absolutely hysterical. So next time, give it a shot and watch the entire thing. It's worth it.

2. CSI: Miami is another great one. I lost interest in the original CSI and had stopped watching the CSI's all together, until a marathon was on one night this summer. I was hooked. A lot of people say they don't like the main character and his corny lines that the show always starts with. Just because they're corny doesn't mean there not funny!

3. Flash Forward is a brand new show in its debut season but boy, is it a beauty. It follows a CIA agent after the ENTIRE WORLD blacks out for over two minutes and get a glipse of what they will be doing 6 months in the future. As you can imagine, things are crazy and the agent is trying to figure out what caused the blackout and prevent it from happen again.

4. Sportscenter The only reason this show isn't number 1 on the list is because I normally watch it and there's no need for me to record it!

5. Planet Earth We have HDTV and I really like seeing whale and sharks attack and demolish other animals in high definition.