Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 1, 2014 (Today Through Rose Colored Glasses): New Year's Day, Last Day of Kwanza, and Public Domain Day
(to the bane of authors and artists watching
their works go off of copyright into the free public domain; and on this day in 1890
the first Rose Bowl Parade was held; in 1891 the first college bowl game, the
Rose Bowl, was played between Stanford and Michigan ; in 1925 Notre Dame in its
only Rose Bowl appearance and led by the "Four Horsemen" in their
last ride beat Stanford; in the 1929 Rose Bowl Cal Bears player (to no
one's surprise) "Wrong Way" Riegels recovered a Georgia Tech
fumble, was spun around and ran back 65 yards toward his own goal line,
stopped at the goal line by his own teammates to avoid a safety, then tackled by
Georgia Tech on the three yard line (Georgia Tech in its only Rose Bowl won
9-7); in the 1941 Rose Bowl, Stanford, using the T formation, beat Nebraska
in its only Rose Bowl appearance; in 1954 to the delight of viewers lucky
enough to own color TVs, NBC broadcast the first coast to coast color telecast
of the Rose Parade; and in 1970 Stanford's only Heisman Trophy winner, Jim
Plunket, led Stanford to upset number 1 ranked Ohio State. Why of
all the bowl games, coaches want to go the Rose Bowl: " I'm glad we're not
going to the Gator Bowl."-- Lou Holtz, noted football coach and now sports
commentator with a great sense of humor on being pelted with oranges when his
Arkansas team was in the Orange Bowl.
A
New Year's Wish
On this the first day of the New Year facing a clean fresh sheet
It matters not which team prevailed and which one went down to defeat
It
matters not whether the resolutions you made, you will or will not keep
But
rather how life's bouquet of petals, leaves and thorns you choose to greet
With a smile to ignore the chaff and to find the kernels of satisfying wheat
Or with negative frowns or grimaces to all positive thoughts unseat
But in either case rest assured that your fresh sheet is not wet concrete
And
any losses or setbacks on your sheets you do not have to repeat
Enjoy the morning and the
fact the flowered floats move slowly, not fleet
You can almost smell the roses on TV, an amazing colored treat
Be you Cardinal or Spartan fan, live for a purpose as you take first steps
today on the
2014 street
© January 1, 2014 Michael P. Ridley, aka
the Alaskanpoet
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW
YEAR
After
enjoying the Rose Bowl Parade (unbelievable as usual) and waiting for the start
of the Rose Bowl (Go
Cardinal!),
take five and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my
twitter account below (if you like them join 133 growing followers
and please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good and incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for an
original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in review
just posted yesterday. A special thanks to all of those who have followed by tweets and blogs in 2013 and hopefully will continue in 2014.
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