Shot to the Cup

Congratulations to Spain for winning the world cup, the Dutch for a great run, and especially the South Africans for a successful tournament, and a new word in my vocabulary.

The World Was Watching, 2010

The final whistle's blown,
The final contest won.
The Spanish team has shown
Who's best. The world had fun.

To the Dutch dismay
And four-year pain,
The World Cup, it goes to
The native boys of Spain.

And, should I live as long
As Biblical Methuselah,
I don't think that I want to hear
Another darn Vuvuzela.

Football for the Novice

In honor of Superbowl XLIV the minor premise goes into the Wayback Machine to find Andy Griffith's 1953 football classic, brilliantly illustrated with cartoons from the Golden Age of Mad Magazine: