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Hello All! Today is Brianne, Lisa and Meghan’s fake Christmas. It’s 9:40am and I am awake and Meghan is awake and wrapping presents and we are listening to Christmas music. It’s a lovely day in the neighborhood. We are watching christmas shows and playing games and listening to christmas music and opening presents! It’s going to be a great day! Photos to come!

This is not our living room, but how great would it be if it were?

Last Saturday after the Heisman show, ESPN aired a fully colorized for the first time ever edition of the 1958 NFL Championship, also known as the greatest game ever played. Having heard of this for years but having never seen it, I recorded it and watched it Sunday night.

Man alive did ESPN hit it out of the park with this one. I was excited about just getting to see the game, but they didn’t just show the game. They sat down old Giants/Colts players with current Giants/Colts players and had them watch the game together and they showed some of their comments and questions to one another. They also had former and current coaches, reporters and cheerleaders. It was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And since I had no idea who won or what happened in the game, it was all new to me and pretty exciting. It was the first ever overtime game in NFL history and is still to this day the only time a championship game has gone into overtime. That’s good stuff. The broadcaster for the game said that if you were looking to script a movie about a football game that it’s this game and it’s already been written. True story.

And, with all classic sporting events, I cried. Yes, as the old players are talking about what that game meant to them, I made the best kind of tears there are: tears for sport.

Science question: I wonder if there is a chemical difference in tears depending on the emotion behind them. Perhaps happy tears have some serotonin (the feel good chemical) in them and angry tears have adrenaline in them and maybe sport tears have a little sweat or dirt in them (how great would that be?). Something to look into the next time any of us do a science project.