It is ... uh ... windy up here in Buffalo the morning of Giants-Bills at 1 p.m. at Ralph Wilson Stadium.
Really windy.
Like, "Wizard of Oz" windy.
They're expecting gusts of about 40 miles per hour during the game, and there could be some rain, maybe heavy at times.
If you are a Giants' fan, you'd better hope your team doesn't make the same mistake they did last week in failing to adequately take the winds into account during Sunday night's 22-10 loss to the Redskins.
Lots of Brandon Jacobs today.
I wrote about the Giants in one of my three Sunday columns for the newspaper. I still think they will end up making the playoffs, either by winning today or by backing in as a result of other NFC wild card contenders losing. But still, it's a dicey situation. If they lose today, they face a potentially do-or-die game against the Patriots next Saturday. Not good. (I'd forgotten to use the word "potentially" in the column, so please forgive the omission. Our Internet staff will be on the case shortly to add that potentially significant word.
UPDATE: My man Mike Rose is on the case, and the word is added. So you'll have to find something else to accuse me of being a dunce.)
... growing up, we used to watch the "Wizard of Oz" once a year when one of the television networks would air it, although the Wicked Witch of the West always creeped me out. Kids these days can at least get used to the scary lady. Between Andrea G. and Emily G., we must have watched the movie 50 times on video.
And yes, one of the greatest feelings in the world is protecting your little ones in the cradle of your arm from witches and wizards, and watching them pretend to be Dorothy Gale.