Hello world

Life is good. Great Thanksgiving. Reasonable good--or at least fun---football games to watch. Family and friends to enjoy. Aren' t those really the purposes of most holidays? I think so.
Oh, and I heard what happened to Clint Longley, sort of. Yesterday the game played 20 year ago or so in which Longley came out of nowhere to lead the Dallas Cowboys from a two-plus touchdown deficit to beat the Washintong Redskins came up again. It not only came up, but there was some actual film of the famous game showing a football player with "Longley" clearly printed on the back of his football jersey and one or two of the plays. All this came up in the Dallas-Chicago game played yesterday afternoon, which Dallas won.
Anyway, there was a brief discussion of the game, and one of those discussing it was Troy Aikman. He was Cowboy quarterback during much of the decade of the 1990s, and he said that Longley disappeared in the season after the famous game with the Redskins when he, Longely, "sucker punched" Roger Staubach. Those of you who do not know it? Roger Staubach was the Dallas starting quarterback for that famous Redskin game. He got hit hard and almost knocked out--and had to be replaced by Longley.
Anyway, Aikman said after Longely punched Staubach the season following, no one ever heard of him again.
If anyone out there did hear of Longely again, let me know.

Oh: two more Marines killed in Iraq. I hope that one day all wars will stop and people will realize that the best way to settle any dispute is with words and a hand-shake afterwards: not with guns, bullets, knives or anything else that will hurt someone.
A lot of Americans are and will feel pain over all the dead and wounded in Iraq.
God save their souls!