Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just before 8:00 a.m. in "The City." Our current low-temperature of 49° feels like 49° with a wind out of the north @ two mph. The Small Craft Advisory that was in effect will end @ 8:00 a.m.  However, the waters of the "Big Lake", are cooling off. In fact, the current water-temperature being reported @ the Grand Haven State Park is 66°.

Once the sun rises today @ 8:02 a.m., the high-temperature is forecast by the NWS to reach a zenith of 66° under sunny-skies. That's well before the sun sets tonight @ 6:56 p.m.

I did the right thing yesterday and ate brunch while watching anything but the woeful Detroit Lions, who lost to the Cincinnati Bengals by a lopsided score of 11 - 34. At the risk of sounding like Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that." 

But wait, there's really more. A little-know fact, is that recently added teams like the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Houston Texans are linked with old-line teams like the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions as the only NFL teams to have never played in a Super Bowl. 

The Browns were reconstituted in the late 1990s after team owner Art Modell was thwarted in his plan to  move the Browns to Baltimore. He was eventually awarded the Baltimore NFL franchise that became the Ravens after the Colts had moved to Indianapolis. The Browns franchise, records, history and intellectual property, i. e. their logo and name, stayed in Cleveland. 

With an agreement between the City of Cleveland and the NFL to build a new NFL caliber stadium in Cleveland, Modell moved the Browns' team equipment and players to Baltimore where they became the Ravens. The Browns franchise in Cleveland, was sold to a new owner in 1998 for $530 million and the team was rebuilt by way of an expansion draft. At any rate, they are really a new team and thus the Lions are the only original NFL team to have never been to a Super Bowl. So don't get your hopes up Lions fans.

The equally inept Chicago Bears put on a better show versus the Green Bay Packers, but they still lost, 14 - 24. 

Mary is making progress on a new cross-stitch project that she found en route to looking up something else. Her fossil stitching project is on hold as she expands her efforts and horizons. I finished a crossword-puzzle yesterday and about 2/3 of a new large-print novel. We also took the fur-children for a walk in Central Park. 

Today, we have a grooming appointment for Ginger in the afternoon and I have a P/T appointment later this morning. Ciao.