Jets vs Colts, Jets spank colts. I am happy for the Jets, though sad for Tony Dungy, who is a fine coach and will win his championships someday. The Colts were not as good as advertised and shouldn't have made the playoffs anyway. As for the Jets, I'm glad Herm Edwards, the NFl's other Black coach has a very competitive team out there. Also, I'm happy for Ted Cottrell, Jets defensive coordinator, an African American who was coordinator of Buffalo's defense in the Wade Phillip years and fielded a top three defense for three years in Buffalo. He got snubbed for the Bills job and went to the Jets, who made him defensive coordinator and asst. head coach. There is almost no reason why he and Marvin Lewis and Art Shell and Sherm Lewis and Willie Shaw shouldn't at least get calls for head coaching vacancies. Parcells to Dallas is defensible, he is a proven turn arounder, but Coughlin to Bengals would be inexcusable. We'll see what Detroit, Seattle and Arizona do.

I watched American History X tonite for the second time. The movie is about a reformed neo-nazi skin head (Ed Norton) who has just done time and sees his younger brother going down the same path. He has to now convince his brother about the error of his ways. Avery Brooks is also in the movie and does a good job as mentor who guides him along the way. One poignant issue is that the brothers come from a regular middle class family and how is it that they turn into rabid racists. I absolutely love this movie as a social commentary. It is one of those movies that one can get students to watch to teach and reflect on the issue of race. Another movie I love as a social commentary is Stephen King's The Lottery.