Know-it-all Blogger here today. Hiya, folks. I'm glad to be here today to dispense my wisdom to all who are in dire need of it. After you read me, you'll all feel much better. A glow shall form around your faces, the glow that comes from coming within my aura. Me on the other hand, I'm going to feel even worse, knowing I still have to share the planet with all 6 billion of you dopes.

My first take is on the 49ers-Giants game. It was won after the son of Kenny Williams made a crucial...

A few weeks ago I posted an entry entitled "Alternate Super Bowls" which matched up the losers of the NFC and AFC Championship games from 1966 to the present. I present Part II-in which I give the match ups between NFL champions and champs from other leagues that existed at various points in football history. Let us just assume that the NFL played nice with these leagues, cut them into a piece of the money pie, and allowed them to share the wealth. Yes, of course. George Halas sez: "&^%$#@!...

And in the interest of equal time, I present "Alternate Super Bowls" featuring the losers of the Championship Games:

[B]I: Dallas Cowboys vs. Buffalo Bills[/B]
[B]II: Dallas Cowboys vs. Houston Oilers[/B]
[B]III: Cleveland Browns vs. Oakland Raiders[/B]
[B]IV: Cleveland Browns vs. Oakland Raiders[/B]
[B]V: San Francisco 49ers vs. Oakland Raiders[/B]
[B]VI: San Francisco 49ers vs. Baltimore Colts[/B]
[B]VII: Dallas Cowboys vs. Pittsburgh...

[B]Headline from a 1946 edition of the "Onion" in the book "Our Dumb Century:"[/B]

[B][SIZE=4]Nazis, Japs victorious in alternate Phillip Dick Universe[/SIZE][/B]

Pretty funny stuff, and now that baseball is over, I will be pretty bored and looking for things to do. One thing I got around to thinking about was MLB's League Championship Series. Some of those series have sometimes been far more compelling and memorable than the World Series itself. I...

[B][I]The Last Tycoon-[/I][/B]This is the final film directed by the legendary Elia Kazan, and it features a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Robert DeNiro stars as a 1930's movie executive named Monroe Stahr, based on Irving Thalberg. Stahr is a young, arrogant hotshot who is making a name for himself as Chief of Production, a job given to him the studio head, who is basically trying to bring Stahr and his daughter together. Stahr's actions include firing a director who can't handle a tempramental...