Blowing a 17-point lead seems to be the “in” thing to do in the NFL this season. Don’t know if it would fit into a 90-second or five-minute video or however long a TikTok one lasts, though. Of course, mostly bad teams are the only ones “good” enough to do that, but I seem to remember ...

Have you heard of self-perpetuating prophecies — or self-perpetuating myths? Basically, my best way to sum them up is that no matter what evidence comes up, it’s used to prove the theory, whether it supports it or contradicts it. Which probably isn’t so bad if the theory is true, but ...

I’m going slightly off course with today’s column to concentrate on the wider scheduling of football during the upcoming holidays. First off, it’s getting to be a bit weird this weekend with the NFL schedule as the league changed from originally five Saturday games, all at indeterminate ...

An idea came over me not too long ago when I ran across a figure skating show, I think on our Canadian cable station CBC. Not that I really watched it, but with my OCD fixation on numbers, I waited until they showed the scores for one of the performers — or was it a skating couple? I ...

At this point as we’re reaching December, NFL teams have shown their true colors. Still, really odd and totally unexpected upsets are still happening even as the league is just about two-thirds of the way through the regular season. Now it’s understandable if this kind of stuff happens ...

Gobble, gobble! I had a few ideas for today’s column, but I’ll stick with the numbers today, especially since they include the Minnesota Vikings. That’s the same team I said just a couple weeks ago that no one pays attention to. Now they’re getting all kinds of good attention like ...