We all know that the music business has gone through major changes. This studio demo (recorded September 25 with Marc Muller in New Jersey) is now exclusively available from ! Snow beside the fishing booth making sure Pollyanna wins a doll!) Of course the peak scene is the one where the town preacher "sees the light" thanks to that wonderfully wise little girl and a quote from Abraham Lincoln (but I still prefer Mrs. One reads the statistics-the numbers coming out of government monitoring agencies and the financial institutions, but where are all of the people going?Įveryone knows we're not still talking about secondary residences and failed attempts at flipping condos in Miami.Īre we talking about the waiting list for a tent village near Tampa?Īs far as the song's title, anyone familiar with the (underrated) Disney film will recall Haley Mills (literally out on a limb) sneaking out of her upstairs window in order to attend the town bazaar. "Don't Look Down, Pollyanna" is clearly a song about America today-all of the foreclosures taking place and the people out of (what were) their homes. I'll catch ev'ry detail off your big high-definition screen. There's your red Destroyer and your back-up singer's tambourine You've been on top since you was twenty, so I don't think so! They call you beast and say you're crazy, but they just don't know, You've got a ring on ev'ry finger and your green eyes glow, You wear a gold satin jacket, but your tattoos show, Punk girl walkin' by me says she's skippin' work to be here twice. Tryna find my seat I stop to look at all your merchandise There's the trucks an' trailers and the buses of your road machine. I know all your songs and all the words and what the songs all mean Really can't afford it, but I'll do just to come hear you. Shreveport, Louisiana is just as high as Nia'gra Falls.īought myself a ticket and I paid to park my Nissan, too Is bouncing off the Greyhound station wall The new large print edition and a fairly clean hotel. There should've been a copy on the night stand by your bed You think you might go straight down the drain, You're hopin' there'll be somebody there who'll You think you might be close to the edge, The church bell tolls for hearts and souls,Īnd ev'ry moth is flapping toward a flame.
We’ve seen it on Thanksgiving for three straight years.The traffic lights are blinking just the same In today’s NFL, there’s no real advantage to playing at home. NFL teams seem to be getting better at silent counts to negate crowd noise, and better at finding ways to travel comfortably and achieve peak performance whether they’re at home or on the road.
But that’s not the reason, as the trend toward road teams doing better began before the pandemic and has continued this season, with stadiums full again. It’s now around one point.ĭuring the 2020 season, some blamed the disappearance of home-field advantage on empty stadiums in the pandemic.
In the last couple years, that shifted to two points. For decades, the rule of thumb was that home-field advantage was worth about three points on the Vegas line. Gamblers and sports books were among the first to notice the decline in home-field advantage. In 2019, home teams went just 132-123-1, which was the worst cumulative record for home teams since the advent of the 16-game schedule - until home teams did even worse in 2020 and are now on pace to do worse still in 2021. This season home teams are 80-87-1, which if it continues will be the worst record for home teams in NFL history - a record that was set last season, when home teams went 127-128-1. This was the third consecutive Thanksgiving in which the road teams won every game.Īnd Thanksgiving is just a small part of a large trend in the NFL toward home-field advantage not meaning anything. Home-field advantage has largely disappeared in the NFL in recent years, and Thanksgiving has been no exception.Īll three home teams lost on Thursday: The Lions lost to the Bears, the Cowboys lost to the Raiders and the Saints lost to the Bills.