Trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio

This week I was in Akron, Ohio for business.  After my meetings today, I made the short drive from Akron to Canton to visit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Basketball will always be my first love, but football is a close 2nd, so this was a pretty cool opportunity.  It was very cool.  Lots of memorabilia, and plenty of video.  If you have ever seen anything put together by NFL Films then you know that it always top notch.  I took lots of pictures, so here they are:

Jim Thorpe

Thought it was interesting that they chose Steve Young for this poster instead of Joe Montana.

He not officially in the HOF yet, but I guess they assume he will be.

Earl Campbell.  I had to take pictures of the some Oiler players.

Walter Payton

Steve Young

Warren Moon

Bruce Matthews, Oilers Off Tackle

Jerry Rice

More Houston connections.  This is the former USFL team, the Houston Gamblers.

Steve Young as a member of the USFL's L.A. Express

The uniform Walter Payton was wearing when  he broke Jim Brown's rushing record.  I know that Emmett holds that record now, but for my money, I'll take "Sweetness"

The Lombardi Trophy

Colts Super Bowl Ring

Golfing Fun in St. George

Last year my step dad decided to start a family tradition where all the men in the family go to St. George and play golf for a weekend. I wasn't able to make it due to business travel commitments last year but I was able to go this year. We had a great time, and although I was pretty rusty, I didn't play to badly and a good time was had by all. I took some pictures of the courses we played and some of them include the guys
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Larry on the tee at Coral Canyon.

Larry and Quinn at Coral Canyon.

Me, Quinn and Larry

A shot of the surrounding area from Kokopelli.

Another shot from Kokopelli

Kokopelli

My uncle, John Boswell.

Larry, Zach and Marc.

Weiner-gate

I haven't blogged in some time. I've had a lot of other distractions. This Anthony Weiner Twitter story is just too awesome not to talk about. The entire web/blogoshpere is erupting on this story. Congressman Weiner has been in the news before. He's always struck me as a pompous douche-bag. On MSNBC he gets softball questions and bloviates about his ideology. But I've always respected him for having the stones to go on Fox News. He's done interviews with Hannity, O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly. And as courageous as that has been, he's acted like a jack-ass (google the Megyn Kelly interview) dodging questions and refusing to let the interviewer control the interview.

Whoever Congressman Weiner's PR people are, they need to be fired. As of today, Weiner isn't commenting anymore , but the damage is already done. If you haven't seen the myriad of interviews he's given in the last 72 hour, stop everything you're doing and see them now! Weiner's apparent damage control has hurt him 1000 times more than a simple "No comment" would have at the outset.

This is nothing new for politicians. They do something that will make them un-electable, try to get out ahead of it so they can be electable again, and end up making things worse. Why not just come clean? You're busted, dude. Take your medicine, ride out your term and become a lobbyist when you lose in your next primary. Congressman Weiner, Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Edwards thank you for the cover. Without your complete meltdown, we'd be talking about them instead of you today.