Did you know that President Donald Trump once owned a professional football team? Here he is shaking the hand of one his New Jersey Generals USFL football team players, Herschel Walker, 41 years ago.  Now you know why Trump endorsed Walker on his Georgia Senate campaign, and just named him Ambassador to the Bahamas. In 1985 with Doug Flutie, Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback who signed with Trump. Like almost everything he owns, the United States Football League went bankrupt. Trump played football as a student at the New York Military Academy. He maybe showed up at the Super Bowl because Louisiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania voted for him in the recent presidential election. He played golf with Tiger Woods this morning and will fly into New Orleans to watch the Super Bowl today from the suite of New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana will be there. Had the first phase of my Super Bowl binge as a brunch.  Ingredients for my Bloody Mary....

Super Bowl Sunday is a wonderful day for me.  No politics, ignore the pandemic and be somewhat pious.  So I will start with  comedy .  Sure, that was an atheist, but it was funny. So let me balance this near blasphemy with the most popular religious song in history.  According to this source , it is Amazing Grace , by John Newton.  Absolutely beautiful.  Watch it. But the voice sounded female?  I searched and found this John Newton film, one hour and twenty minutes long, called, The True Story of Amazing Grace  ( the whole movie ).  I checked Rotten Tomatoes, and there was only one film called Amazing Grace , and reviewers only gave it a 26 rating.  Benedict Cumberbatch and Albert Finney star, and TTSOAG did not have them.  Plus, AG was almost two hour long. So went to Wikipedia , and found out that John Newton was born nearly 300 years ago in London, first worked on slave ships, and himself became a slave, of Princess Peye o...