THEY'RE MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (G-G-G-G-G-GEORGIA): You already know who I've been rooting for, and against, in The Offseason NFL Controversy That Probably Should Not Be Named, but if you needed anything to push you off the fence, let me point out that Aaron Rodgers, for absolutely no reason at all, wore a Civil War uniform (Union infantry) on the team plane to Denver for a preseason game.

In related news, I miss Coach Janky Spanky.

WON'T YOU RUN, LIVE TO FLY, FLY TO LIVE, ACES HIGH! Who knew? Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickenson moonlights as an airline pilot, and he just flew a special 757 trip to pick up some British tourists stuck in Egypt. This is a new level of cool.

TOM LEHRER'S "THE ELEMENTS" IS NOT ELIGIBLE: We've previously discussed songs with odd lyrics here, but having heard Live's "Lightning Crashes" on the radio while driving around last week, I wanted to talk about a related topic--songs that have words you wouldn't expect to hear in a song. For instance, it's not every day you hear the word "placenta" in a song, as you do there ("Lightning crashes/a new mother cries/her placenta falls to the floor"). Please offer us other examples of songs with strange words in the lyrics.

AH, BEER, THE CAUSE OF AND SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS: While much of Houston is not in the best of shape today, the Beer Can House survived with only minor damage. Houston legend Brennan's was less lucky, having burned to the ground during the storm.

I AM GLAD I AM NOT A CHARGERS FAN TONIGHT: Oh, my goodness. But let's be clear -- just because Denver coach Mike Shanahan's gutsy ballsy reckless? inspired 2-pt conversion call worked does not mean that ex ante it was the correct decision to make. I'll be interested in seeing what our Outsider friends have to say on the topic, but clearly we have a Game of the Year candidate already.

[A smart friend asked: how many other NFL coaches have the moxie + job security to make such a call? Belichick, Holmgren, Coughlin, maybe Reid (but he wouldn't), maybe McCarthy or Fox?]

In other news: Brandon Marshall is the new Randy Moss, Calvin Johnson is also the new Randy Moss, Aaron Rodgers is the new [Not Going There], Dante Rosario and Anthony Fasano are the new Frisman Jackson and Fred Beasley, and I need 33 from Donovan F. McNabb if I'm going to beat Mr. Cosmo this week in VSFL X. Your real and fantasy football thoughts are welcome.

BECAUSE EVEN WE HAVE A FINITE SCALE FOR MEDIA CONSUMPTION: We're now two full weeks into the fall season, and it's already time to ask what's getting TiVoed, and what's getting TiNoed among the new series. For me:

• TiVoed--Fringe, 90212.0 (since I have a dual tuner--if I didn't, Dr. Hizzy would win out), and the surprise Privileged (which is basically "What if Rory Gilmore couldn't find a job after graduating Yale, and wound up tutoring Blair Waldorf's cousins in Florida?," with the benefit of a lead who's much more adept at the comedy than Alexis Bledel was).
• TiNoed--Raising The Bar (I don't have room for another generic lawyer/cop show unless it's anchored by a strong performance--e.g., Holly Hunter in Saving Grace--and Mark Paul Gosselaar's hair doesn't count), True Blood (aside from the cool audio effects when Sookie is having a vision, a strange mixture of boring and self-important).

Anyone have other thoughts.

YES, BUT WILL KARA THRACE ENDORSE ADAMA VIGOROUSLY ENOUGH? OK, given what we know thus far, I'm assuming that the Adama for President campaign would be more likely than Tigh/Roslin to get your votes. I mean, do we want a frakkin' skinjob in command?