For the second week in a row… we saw some great play-off football! It was Cincinnati over Kansas City and the LA Rams defeating the San Francisco 49ers.

So… On Sunday, Feb. 13… Super Bowl LVI… a game which will see QB Heisman Trophy winner Joe Barrow and the Bengals take on Matthew Stafford and the Rams. GO MATTHEW!!!

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Researchers at Northwestern University have created a device that monitors how many hours you wear a mask and then shares that data with other people to compare your stats.

- And by “Other People" they mean “Dr. Fauci”.

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Both Central Michigan and Oakland University sent out emails informing some students that they had won valuable scholarships - then turned around and admitted they’d sent out the emails accidentally.

- This reminds me of when I got accepted to Syracuse University on a full-ride scholarship. And by “Full-Ride” I mean they paid for my bus fare from Buffalo to Syracuse the weekend I moved in.

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80-year-old Italian President Sergio Mattarella was pulled away from his impending retirement and reelected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state.

- I’m not gonna name names (NANCY PELOSI) but I guess we should be grateful the Speaker of the House is only elected for a term of 2 years.

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RIP… Howard Hesseman who played Dr. Johnny Fever on “WKRP in Cincinnati” has died at 81. The role was modeled on a radio friend of mine who I worked with in Cincinnati named Skinny Bobby Harper. Bobby was, in a word, Nuts. For example, his girlfriend once called the cops on him because he was a tad tipsy and was wandering around the parking lot of her apartment complex looking for his car. When the cops arrived to help, he accused them of STEALING HIS CAR which he was too intoxicated to see was right in front of him.

After I moved to Detroit and started working at Keener 13… Bobby had another of his run ins with the cops in Cincinnati - who had finally had enough - and drove him to the edge of the city, dropped him off and said, “Don’t ever show your face in this town again”. So naturally, I got him a job in Detroit! Skinny Bobby died a few years back… but his persona lives on in Dr. Johnny Fever - perfectly captured by the now, late Howard Hesseman.

Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Tuesday!

-Dick