Today really ought to be a national holiday. I find it hard to believe there will be any noticeable productivity in the workplace today, so why not just give us a well-deserved day off, and try it again on Tuesday?

It was a pretty good weekend for Central New York. SU beat Villanova. Former SU great Art Monk was voted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame. And the Giants – whose head coach, Tom Coughlin, is from Waterloo NY – about 50 miles west of here – and was Syracuse’s halfback during the Floyd Little/Larry Csonka years – won the Super Bowl. The Giants’ WR/special teams guy David Tyree – who caught a pass for a touchdown, and made a spectacular catch to keep the final touchdown drive alive – played for SU. And their Asst. Strength and Conditioning coach – Markus Paul – is another SU guy.

All in all, not a bad weekend.