Blizzards have closed the Denver airport and roads for a hundred miles and paralyzed the high plains economy, but I'll be heading home soon on dry roads for an evening's TV date as my beloved Green Bay Packers host the neighboring Minnesota Vikings this evening. (It's been a long season for faithful Packers fans, but that's another story).
Just up the road from us here in Northern Virginia, fans of the Baltimore Ravens are getting excited for the prospects of their team in the NFL's post-season (just a dream for the 2006 Packers, I'm afraid). Yesterday's Baltimore Sun carried the headline: "Ravens' success has city thinking salt and purple" It seems the city's salt this year is blue (from the use of Prussian Blue as an anti-caking agent, the paper didn't mention) and they're taking a look at trying to adjust the hue to honor the purple-and-black Ravens. The city has already changed the lighting on city buildings to purple. The paper explains that "winter in Baltimore may resemble a huge, grape-flavored snowball."
Keep praying for snow in Baltimore, even if purple's not your favorite team's color. And tonight I'm hoping there's no cause to consider a "purple" celebration after the game as my green-and-gold champions tough it out with an outfit that used to inspire "shock and awe" as the "Purple People Eaters" -- the Vikings.
