The Super Bowl

Al Michaels and Chris Collingsworth can talk the hind legs off a donkey. They did just that during the Super Bowl game Sunday. Collingsworth must have needed oxygen after listening to himself talk for about 4 hours.

When the Rams won, Collingsworth called the game the greatest ever and went on and on with hyped superlatives that frankly was capable of causing incontinence in most of us.

Sunday’s contest between the Rams and the Bengals was not the greatest Super Bowl game ever played.

It wasn’t even close.

The game featured two winning NFL teams at the very best level of play they are capable of in the one game where we all expect to be dazzled by sports heroics.

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Everett High School Marching Band Rocks

At the recent 70th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearly Harbor in December, the Everett High School Marching Band was there.

This was an extraordinarily proud moment for the band kids from Everett.

They were the only high school musicians at one of this na- tion’s most solemn remembrances.

Gene O’Brien, Band Director should be praised for his years and years of dedication and loyalty to the Everett High School kids in the band.

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High School Safety Paramount

I make all the none-home deliveries of the Leader Herald every Wednesday to a wide variety of locations throughout the city.

My Wednesday odyssey takes me everywhere in this city – and I go into and out of dozens of stores, and public places, where the newspaper is distributed.

Since 2019, I delivered the Leader to Everett High School each week of the school year with the exception of vacation weeks and the summer, when high school is not in session.

Each time I delivered the papers, the front doors have never been open. They are locked. Every time I arrive it is this way – locked.

I must press the door buzzer to gain entrance.

I have written about the COVID-19 inspired violent outbursts plaguing Everett High – and most other urban high schools throughout the state. I have watched the videos of students fighting outside the high school. They are a disturbing fact of reality in the new world order we live in.

However I have never witnessed violence during my deliveries to the high school or at sporting events, or musical events, or graduations.

In addition, I notice the police presence at the high school nearly each time I deliver.

I find this reassuring.

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Thank You John Hanlon

City Council President John Hanlon sure had his hands full at Monday night’s meeting of the city council committee of the whole.

Not only did he have to deal with some councilors not under- standing what exactly they were doing, but he also struggled to maintain a sense of dignity and order with a very large and mostly angry audience watching the proceedings inside the council chamber.

The meeting to meeting appearance lately of large and hostile crowds in the council chamber is a new occurrence following the mayor’s razor thin victory over former councilor Fred Capone.

The longevity battle has exacerbated the situation considerably and not to the mayor’s advantage.

Capone often aided whomever was council president with his lawyer’s understanding of procedure and parliamentary rules and regulations.

With Capone no longer there to set his colleagues straight, a great deal of confusion reigned among the councilors, especially among those who were against stripping the mayor of his outrageous $40,000 a year longevity payment that was not publicly listed for all to see in the award winning city budget.

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Tom Brady Retiring

It is official.

Tom Brady, the GOAT, the undisputed greatest quarterback of all time, has retired.

The best thing about this for all of us who love Tom Brady is that we never have to watch him play in a Buccaneers uniform again!

Watching him play for the Buccaneers was as cruel as it gets for New England football fans who love Brady and the Patriots.

We ask again and again, how did Bob Kraft let this happen? Does he care?
Sure he does.

Now he doesn’t have to watch Brady anymore playing for the Buccaneers.

That must be a good feeling for Kraft. But what about Brady?

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