Today is National Signing Day, which I guess I should care about as a fan of professional football since professional football players come from somewhere , namely college football, and this is one of the bigger days on the college football calendar. There is a bunch of nonsense with hats being selected and scads of normally reasonable adults drooling over high school kids, but overall it’s a pretty boring day to anyone not selecting a school or writing about selecting a school.  The whole process would be much more interesting if all the various athletic directors and coaches were put in a circle and recruits played a giant game of duck-duck-goose to see if how badly Charlie Weis or Urban Meyer really wanted them during the goose-chase.

Much like sausages and laws, do I really want to see how professional players are made? As I’ve said many times before, I didn’t attend a big college football school nor did anyone in my immediate family, so I don’t have any really rooting interest on Saturdays other than sheer pandemonium for the BCS. These days though, people buy and read up on artisanal sausages to know exactly where the ingredients came from. PACs, politicians and pundits all have Twitter feeds, so agreements like SOPA are probably discussed with more frequency by ordinary citizens these days than when the FCC was formed in the 1930s by the Communications Act. So maybe I should pay a little more attention to the origin stories of who may become some of my favorite athletes in the next four to ten years.

Or I can just read posts about baby mascots.

Artichoke and Leek Goat Cheese Spread: 28 Days of Super Bowl Recipes

Makes a lot of delicious stuff to spread on crackers. Very popular around these parts.