Outright “Dogs” Kept On “Barking”

One way to quantify and perhaps put in perspective (I know as Mr. Barnum did long before and famously “Bartletted,” that one such is born every minute) the incredible plethora of outright upsets is to cite the number of contestants (at 1,000 an entry with Barnum clearly having no need to say I told you so) already out of the so called Circa (Resort and Hotel Casino, non compensated “plug”) Survivor Contest. It is, no surprise located in L.Vegas, Nevada).

There were 14,000 plus entries and only just over 600 contest entries remain “alive.” That means roughly 95 percent of the entries have gone “bye-bye.”

Now the more conventional look with some notes after 3 weeks of NFL play.

There are five (3-0) teams, the Steelers under Mike Tomlin, who deserves credit as does his wife, for all the work he did in the mostly Jewish community, after the shooting there took lives some years back, 2 time champion Chiefs, and Bills in the A.F.C. while the Seahawks and Vikings are NFC (3-0) teams. (The baseball counterparts of the Seattle Seahawks (Mariners), Minnesota Vikings (Twins), and K.C. Chiefs (Royals) are three of the four teams (Detroit Tigers the other), battling, in this the last week of the “reg,” for 2 remaining wild card spots.

The flip side shows three (0-3) teams, all AFC’ers, the Tennessee Titans, Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars.

Two this post. Playing off the title, click above greats Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb, respectively sang/sing and wrote it to view Mr. Campbell perform “By The Time I Get To Phoenix.”

The applicable “kept on/keep on” Jimmy Webb lyric, shown below.

“But She’ll just hear that phone keep on ringing.”