Sunday

Back at the blog in the (not so) new year!

This month happens to be bookended with my two favorite annual Sunday events - the pro football championship game and the Oscars®.

Although I'm not a Green Bay fan per se, I did enjoy their championship win mainly due to a recent viewing of the engrossing Lombardi documentary on HBO.

Vince Lombardi is a mythic and transcendent figure in sports history, a seminary school dropout who became the pope of Green Bay and the patron saint of football. Once an assistant coach of my beloved New York Giants, he gained iconic status and defined athletic excellence as the coach of the Packers in the late 1950s through late 1960s - leading them to multiple consecutive championships. He was a complex and driven man who was ultimately uncomfortable with the famous quote attributed to him, "Winning isn't everything but it's the only thing". It is quite touching and fitting that the championship trophy named for Lombardi is once again at home in Green Bay.

I confess to being slightly behind on my Oscar® documentary nominee viewings this year - I am catching a screening of Inside Job later this week, but have enjoyed Restrepo, Waste Land, Gasland and Exit Through the Gift Shop. What a great lineup and tough choice for voters.

Can't wait to settle in for another fab Sunday!