Quick Hits- December 5

Here are some quick questions, some with answers, others rhetorical.  I was never good at rhetoricals, just asking them.

-What is a Niall and the strange power it has over teenage girls?

-Are the Seahawks the best team in the NFL right now?  They sure seem to be filling that role.  Great performance against the Saints Monday night.

-Just heard a local story: A man went to the store and came home with gunshot wounds to his legs.  He's not cooperating with police, either.  Why doesn't that surprise me?

-Russell Wilson seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment.  He has been a solid performer over the last two seasons and does what needs to be done to win.  Isn't that what a quarterback is supposed to do?

-College Basketball Number 1 goes down at home.  Will the real North Carolina Tar Heels please stand up?

-Some really good football this weekend.  Intriguing championship matchup in the Big 10/11/12 and the SEC.  Nice Michigan State logo produced by Auburn.  Wonder what Nick Saban is doing this weekend...

-When I went to bed last night, it was 60 degrees.  It was 37 degrees when I got up this morning.  Will the real December in Indiana please stand up?  I think it is coming-below zero wind chills on the horizon.

-Pope Francis was a bouncer in his younger days?  Wonder how he dressed.  Did he quote poetry like Patrick Swayze's character in Roadhouse?  Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" might be appropriate.  Or did he just grunt a lot.

-Are professional video games coming?  I have heard it talked about for years, but it never seems to happen.  Not a surprise, really.  Who wants to watch basement dwellers with no real jobs get overpaid for a freakish skill?  Then again...wouldn't that be most professional entertainment, including sports?  The lessons are to apply to real life, not create skills that match nothing usable for real life.

So...am I off base?