The First of Many

Welcome to Top O' the Morning!

This blog will highlight one or two of the best news stories, YouTube videos, or other happenings from this morning on the internet.  Not all posts will be time-sensitive occurrences.  Sometimes it may just contain the product of link-hopping from one site to another that suddenly ended up at some amazing place.

So where this hopefully becomes the first of many posts to this blog, it only seems fitting that the subjects of this post follow along the same theme.

Rhett and Link Return in Good Mythical Morning: Season 8!

The YouTubers Rhett and Link returned this morning for Episode 1 of their daily show, Good Mythical Morning, after a three-week hiatus following the conclusion of Season 7.  If you aren't already familiar with the show, it is worth checking out: www.youtube.com/goodmythicalmorning.

Their videos tend to be a daily serving of randomness with an extra helping of humor.   Many times their videos feature tasting or testing things to save the greater population from having to do the same.  This morning's episode is no exception titled, Pet Food Taste Test.  Pretty self-explanatory. Once again, I have appreciation that they are willing to put themselves through this rather disgusting challenge so that I may remove the same from my own To-Do list.

Whether or not pet food is one of your curiosities, they have a wealth of other videos that are likely to contain at least a few things of interest.  Click on the video link below to check out today's episode, and if you enjoy it, be sure to click on the "subscribe" button to support their future episodes.

Football is Back!

It's that time of year again, where it doesn't matter what teams are on the field, what the names are on the back of the jerseys, or even what the outcomes are of the games.  All that matters is that the brown pigskin (fully inflated, I hope) is flying across the field, and that every fan of every team has the optimism that "maybe this will be the year."  For Raiders fans like myself, we may be deluded, but there is certainly reason to be optimistic that the tide is going to start to turn.  If Derek Carr can follow-up from last season with further growth, and rookie wide receiver, Amari Cooper, can get on the same page as Carr, then there is good reason to feel optimism.

That aside, last night marked the official start of football preseason as the Steelers played the Vikings in the annual Hall of Fame game - capping the events for the Hall of Fame induction weekend. Though it is completely irrelevant, the Vikings did pull off the win over the Steelers (yay?), and both teams showed some promise with their young starters, fringe starters and second teamers starting the game.  Teddy Bridgewater looked particularly sharp for a sophomore QB.

Again, stats don't matter; win-loss records don't matter; all that matters is that football is back!