"Not for me, not to me"

 Hello football fans! Were you happy with the Super Bowl? This is a good time of year to turn the sports page, as it were. Football, college and professional, is over until August, it's time for baseball to come out and blossom, and everyone can indulge in the fine art of what-iffing.

Such as...what if the Chiefs' big pass-catching threat Travis Kelce hadn't dropped those passes? What if Kelce had planned to ask Taylor Swift to take his gigantic hand in marriage, but changed his mind in the sadness of defeat? What if, what if...

If you saw the game, you probably knew it wasn't Kansas City's night within, oh I'm gonna say the first two minutes. Some you win, some you lose...

With no hugely dramatic plays to talk about all day Monday, the talk on-line and, I guess, in all the corner cubicles turned to the half-time show, which featured music star Kendrick Lamar, a whole passel of dancers and featured performers, and a 1987 Buick Grand National. 

I only saw glimpses of Lamar's act, being involved with my patented Lazy Guy chili (sautéed onion, ground beef, add 3 cans of Rotel, two cans of kidney beans, chili powder...let it simmer...and serve with plain yogurt and Fritos) cleanup, so outside of hearing music, and catching flashes of dancing out of my eye corner, I can't talk knowledgeably about his show. I'm far removed from being in Kendrick's target audience and that's OK. I have respect for a performer who attracts an audience that size, at the venue, and more important, in the global TV audience. I hope everyone enjoyed it. I wish those outside Kendrick's audience could stop disparaging his act, because it's likely that many of those doing so spent the second 1/2 of halftime up to their wrists in clam dip anyway. 

The man has the talent to catch the attention of tens of millions of people. I think it's foolish to dismiss his performance and say,  "I don't understand this, therefore it's not valid." Mine is the very generation that asked to be heard when we were coming up. Now, we're saying, "I don't want to hear younger people"? That's foolish. 

 Maybe sometimes it's good to read about new things, or ask someone to clue us in.