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Friday, November 24, 2006
Post-Gobble Day football, last night’s ‘Grey’s’
Who goes shopping at 5 a.m.? Several of my relatives did today, at a time I consider way more night than day. It’s still dark, for crying out loud. Is Wal-Mart really going to run out of toys before the more civilized shopping hour of, say, 9 or 10 a.m.? When the sun is up?
By the time today’s Big Game begins at 11 a.m. (on ABC), these pre-dawn shoppers are going to be too pooped to pay attention to pigskin.
In case you’ve forgotten (or possibly are among those who don’t care), the Big Game is the eagerly anticipated gridiron battle between the UT Longhorns and the A&M Aggies. It’s an orange vs. maroon day.
I’m struggling to understand the concept of tailgating for two days before the game — and then watching it on TV in a parking lot when it’s actually taking place in a stadium right behind you. There are some elaborate setups on the asphalt near the stadium: big-screen TVs hanging off campers with grills, easy chairs and gigantic coolers nearby.
If you’re going to watch football on TV, why not do it at home? I don’t get it.
The bloody round: Burke vs. Cristina
Last night’s intense and bloody episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” was almost too bloody and intense to watch, wasn’t it?
If you haven’t seen it yet, consider this your SPOILER ALERT.
The crisis of confidence and competence Burke (Isaiah Washington) has been suffering since getting shot in the hand boiled over. Cristina (Sandra Oh), you’ll recall, has been urging him to ignore the tremor and let her assist him in surgery. That “team operating” fantasy came to a spurting end last night.
The couple had such a heated, meltdown argument over who is ultimately responsible for the couple’s ethical misconduct that there seems to be no room to repair this romance. In real life such a passionate spat would surely deep-six any relationship.
But this is TV, so anything can happen. Still, I’m betting that the hay-rolling between Cristina and Burke is over.
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