Lindy's Pro Football 2026 Is Here

Look what just came with today's post.

Yep, the NFL season is on the horizon. This is always the first indicator to me to say 'not long to go'.

I've written it many times over the years, but I'll do so again. I first came across Lindy's Pro Football Previews during the summer of 1995. 

I was at a newsagent preparing to get a coach home and browsed the shelves for something to read on the journey. All the wrestling mags I could have chosen were already piled up at home, so I opted for the American football yearbook.

Thanks to the Internet, and even Lindy's bringing out their own British version of the magazine for a period, I've been able to get these annuals on a.. well, on an annual basis. 

As you can see on the cover, the publication is celebrating its fortieth season. It has been cool to be a small part of that ride. 

You'll also notice the cover is of Seattle's Sam Darnold. We always seem to get the editions with the current Super Bowl Champions gracing the front.

Makes me want to root even more for Indianapolis because I'd like an Colts-themed cover one of these days.

Ultimate Lawn Fighting

I have to be straight up - I am mildly interested in seeing the UFC event from the White House lawn.

Not because I am keen to see any of the fights. I'm purely invested in how the Octagon looks with the White House as the backdrop.

With all that said, I am not THAT invested in staying up to watch it. I'll be happy to see highlights tomorrow.

Or photos. They'll do.

I don't believe the scene will beat the pyramids as the backdrop for Oleksandr Usyk's fight with Rico Verhoeven from a few weeks ago. 

The 'Glory in Giza' was, well.. it was glorious.

Pringles' Match Day Snack Pack For The 2026 World Cup

Look what I bought from Iceland today.

I've often entertained the idea of buying a Pringles advent calendar but always end up with my first choices of a National Lottery scratch card and Reese's Cups. 

Even though I love Pringles, I cannot justify buying a box of twenty-four mini tubes to eat on the roads to Christmas.

(I can and could change my mind about that. For now, I am sticking with that opinion!)

This box contains five tubes. Two original, one sour cream, one salt and vinegar and then there's Texas barbecue.

They're obviously produced to coincide with this year's World Cup. The packaging looks quite appealing to be fair. Especially with the middle tube representing Mr Pringle in goal.

Once I've finished with the box, I might end up putting the tubes back. 

Two Games In

Okay, we're two games into the 2026 World Cup. I'm 1-1 in watching the matches live.

It's downhill from here methinks.

I cannot see myself sticking this tournament out. 

With that said, the first game wasn't too bad. We got to see Mexico beat South Africa 2-0 and also caught three, yes THREE, red cards.

It made me wonder what the line was for in an over-under on tournament red cards. If such a market existed for this year's tournament. I couldn't find anything on a search last night, so I'm still in the cold.

Next up is Canada versus Bosnia and Herzegovina. I'm actually keen to see this one, to be fair. The reason why is because Wales would have been against Canada had they qualified.

Following that game is the USA versus Paraguay. Another one I'm interested in... but, it kicks off at 2am. I'm not THAT keen to watch it!

I will switch the Brazil game on at 11pm tomorrow night, though. That's for sure. If you haven't followed along by now - Brazil are my favourite World Cup team ever. I'll go out of my way to watch them whether they're fielded by class stars or nobodies.  

Very True

Here's a good one, found on today's page of my American football calendar.

It's a true or false statement: 

Two brothers won consecutive Super Bowl MVP awards.

Very true. Peyton and Eli Manning did it in 2007 and 2008 respectively. Or, if you want to go by the seasons they did it, 2006 and 2007 respectively.

I don't look to see the answer until the following morning. I know I won't have to tomorrow!

Back To Word Wipe

For the past fortnight, or so, I've found myself playing Word Wipe again.

It had been quite a while since I played this addictive game that I came across on YouTube.

I first wrote about it in March of last year. It got to the point where, if I was scrolling through the website - and came across Word Wipe - I'd think to myself 'okay, I'll play one round'.

But then I'd continue playing until the game ended!

I'm doing the same thing now. Over one year later. Such a fun game. 

I have a strategy in which I use the bomb if I have a few words left on the board in certain levels. You get double points for taking every tile away, so I always make sure to use the bomb in rounds where I sense I've done well with expensive words (points wise). 

Anyway, that approach has been less frequent during this current era of playing the game. I find that it's gotten harder to get to the point where I have the amount of tiles to drop the bomb.

I'm planning to go cold turkey soon. It won't be today because I've already played a few rounds before I started my day properly.

I still recommend giving it a go.

I Try Hot Kick Ketchup And Yellow Mustard McCoy's

On Thursday. I published a post noting I had become aware of a couple of new NFL-inspired flavours of KP's The Real McCoy's ridged crips.

I stated that I was going to keep an eye out for them. Well, the wait ended a couple of days ago. They were at Home Bargains.

I've tried the two flavours - Hot Kick Ketchup and Yellow Mustard.

Going in, I thought I'd prefer the mustard flavour better than the ketchup one. That wasn't how it played out, however.

Yellow Mustard was quite bland, if I'm to be straight up. It wasn't until I was three-quarters into the bag when I finally caught a hint of mustard.

I might have to give the flavour another go sometime in the future.

As for Hot Kick Ketchup - it had a strong tomatoey taste. It was reminiscent of a Polish tomato ketchup I bought from Asda recently. 

I'd go go so far as to state that it gives Walker's Tomato Ketchup flavour crisps a good run for its money. That's high praise - trust me.