Top 10 things that I could have done instead of watching the Eagles lose to the Panthers:

10. Pick the sock lint out from in between my toes
9. Watch Double Jeopardy on CBS sans Ashley Judd nude scenes
8. Look for a job somewhere warm
7. Learn how to dance "the percolator"
6. Pick up my dog's crap from the back yard with my bare hands
5. Watch the Sony Open if only for the background scenery of Hawaii
4. See how many drops of tabasco sauce I can pour in my eye before running around the house screaming
3. Do sit-ups or push-ups or something
2. Try to get a little somethin'-somethin' from my wife
1. Nail my scrotum to a chair and then try to get up really, really fast.

The technology surrounding football is amazing. Real-time stats from more places than one even knows. Production crews running around finding out information concerning the last time a team threw 4 interceptions in an NFC Championship game and then reporting that to fans all over the country and world within seconds and with perfectly placed and aethetically pleasing graphics. Computerized cameras placed at the 30-yardlines of the field so that SportVision can superimpose the 1st down marker on the field for TV viewers without interfering with anything that is actually on the field. Thousands of lines of Delphi code developed to control the overhead camera that flies around over the middle of the field. And again the stats. The huge databases of stats. Perfectly intertwined and at anybody's fingertips. Wow. It's amazing what wads of cash can do to bring the greatest media and technological minds together in an American masterpiece called NFL football.

Hmmm, too bad the CIA and FBI can't get together to share data to help stop terrorism, huh?