Daily Dose of Excel

Larry points out that next year’s SuperBowl will by XL (=ROMAN(40) in Excel). Then I read the same thing on j-walkblog. In true Daily Dose style, I post the news only after everyone else on Earth has heard it.

Based on the comments at j-walkbog, and other experiences I’ve had, I conclude that people who like computers generally don’t like American football. I don’t know why, that just seems to be the way it is. I, for one, like football more than any other sport. I like college football more than professional, but I’d take the NFL over anything else.

I’ve been a Cincinnati Bengals fan since 1984-ish. If you follow the NFL at all, you know that I must be the most loyal fan of all time. (If you don’t follow the NFL, it’s because the Bengals had the worst decade (’90’s) in the history of football.) I started following the Bengals when Dave Rimington played followed a couple of years later by Jim Skow (they were my favorite Nebraska Cornhuskers at the time). I don’t want to be one of those guys who gives up on a team just because a certain player leaves, or the team has a couple of down years, or the team paints their helmets really funky.

In 2004, however, I decided that this was the last year for the Bengals. If they didn’t show some spark, I was giving up on them and finding a new team. Well, they did reasonably well and I actually think they’ll make the playoffs in 2005. Now I have to stick with them. There’s nothing better than having a team do well and being able to say “I’ve been a fan for years.”.

I watched a bit of the half time show, and I generally liked it. It may be the only half time show I’ve ever seen that I even liked a little, so I guess it was pretty good from my perspective. If I were Paul McCartney, I would insist that people not call me Sir. I’m sure it’s a big honor and all that, but it makes him seem pompous. It’s like someone who gets a PhD in philosophy and insists on being called ‘doctor’.

This would have been a better post if I would have said something funny about the football and Excel. But there simply isn’t anything funny about that combination.