The Friday Link for 1/3/25

Happy New Year everyone! 

SPORTS! 

This week's link focuses mainly on sports as this town (Minneapolis/St. Paul) is a little on edge about the final game of the regular season, a winner-take-all battle for the number one seed and the first round playoff bye between the Detroit Lions and the Minnesota Vikings. This morning I heard the ESPN guys and the NFL Radio guys both spend 20 minutes on this game, talking about it being the game of the year.  I don't think I can watch it.

Good for me (and those like me) that there are plenty of other sports things to focus on! None of it connected in any way shape or form.

First up is the all-time classic bit from SCTV, Battle of the PBS Network Stars. This is almost perfect sketch comedy.  It's not dumbed down at all, leading to some very high-brow references and impressions (all of which are spot freaking on!!!) but at the same time, it presents you with the best kind of low-brow humor (Mr. Rodger's beating Julia Child with Good King Friday while an on-point Howard Cosell impression laments the outcome). Everything about this is freaking perfect!

Next up is a great video from the soccer/football channel StuntPegg.  I got lost in her channel this week.  She's fantastic! 

She decided to visit the northernmost professional football club in the world, in Tromsø, Norway. For us, imagine a major city NORTH of Yellowknife in Canada, about twice the size of Yellowknife, and they have a professional sports team! It's a quirky place that has an avid fan base for their team.  Considering the circumstances, it's easy to see how the fans can rally around something so unique to their community.  

And our final sports video is the Vikings themselves! Here are the highlights of them beating Green Bay for the second time this year last weekend. And of course, with the NFL rules, you have to watch that video on YouTube itself.  

Our final video this week is Brennan Lee Mulligan from the Dropout channel taking over the role of head of Oreo Cookies, confronting the problem that is clearly haunting the halls of the cookie maker. 

That's it for this week.  Remember to stay safe.  Get vaccinated.

Have a great weekend!