Couch Potato Sunday

While I was switching in-between channels, that is, after all the professional football games and highlights, especially on the casts of Fox Sports Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Strahan, the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles came with a whole lot of fanfare. It was another electric show with glamorous women and all that noise about the Jonas Brothers.

Well, these young kids with all that fame reminds me of the heydays of The Beatles when Britain rocked the United States when Paul McCartney and his fellas stormed Yankee. Nevertheless, Chris Brown stole the show with three trophies and that unique performance that is bound to change the flavor and vibes of Hip-Hop. Adios, Hip-Hop, time is up!

Yesterday was just a whole lotta fun for me. Major League Soccer exploded with its final in a match-up that was a little bit one-sided until the better team starts scoring. Switching in-between channels, by the time I popped up ABC channel it was all over and Columbus Crew has drenched the New York Red Bulls 3-1 to lift the MLS Cup at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, which is home to the Los Angeles Galaxy.

With all that couch potato stuff as in "The Best Damn Show, Period!" and the media frenzied armchair quaterbacks who scramble in their living rooms as if football is better watched eating hot dog and drinking Miller Genuine Draft, I became a living witness of how it feels to be an arm-chair quarterback. You will be glued until it's all over.

I wasn't carried away with all that even though I love football a whole lot. Of course, I love football because it's physical and a man's game in its totality. But anyway, I think the Giants will be repeating again judging by the way Eli Manning has been handling the ball. I don't see anything that can take it away from the Giants, for now.

So football and all that gone, though NBC's NFL action was pretty much around, I'm now changing channels between ABC and Fox. On Fox, I was bent on the much talked about Emmy Award and Golden Globe winning episode, "24: Redemption" starring Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer and my home boy Hakeem Kae Kazim who played a very awesome role as Colonel Ike Dubaku who tells the boys "your parents have made you weak, we will make you strong" in that fictional African nation of Sengala where child soldiers are trained definitely gave the Fox channel a boost and raised its ratings.

And speaking with Hakeem over the phone, he said the job was well done and he's happy the way it came out. Hakeem has agreed to sit on my hot seat and I'm sure it's going to be quite fascinating.