How that number has grown through the years!!

I seem to recall only three or four when I was college age and then some. Rose, Cotton, Sugar, and maybe Gator?

Of coure, television was not what it is today--able to telecast live from just about anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world.

Besides, my family didn't own a TV set till I was in my twenties. They rented one for very special occasions--presidential inaugurations probably, and perhaps the baseball World Series.

I remember listening to Brooklyn Dodger games (we lived in northern NJ--commuting distance to NYC) on the radio. And the away games were "broadcast" as the ticker tape play by play went to the radio station and was read by the announcer from the NY studio. Those announcers had quite a job sounding excited by something they couldn't see.

The football bowl games didn't get quite the audience (or money for the teams) as baseball. I went to an Ivy League school, and the Ivy League was not involved in post-season games--college was for learning and not for producing professional athletes.

It might also have been that TV was relatively new, and had not yet developed the long-distance telecast capabilities needed to reach the widespread alumni.

At any rate, I've got the Cotton Bowl on and am sort-of rooting for LSU. As a University of New Orleanas alum (two degrees) I sort of automatically root against LSU. It doesn't matter in football (UNO does not have football) but it does with basketball. That game generally gets played in the Superdome because it will draw a very good crowd.

So--we're into a new year again. Seems like it was only a year ago that the last one happened.

I think people have finally finished shooting off the firecrackers they bought for New Year's Eve--that and the fact that the neighborhood kids (never very many) have about all grown up.

And I think half time is over and I'll go watch the second half of the game.