Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. First off – let’s talk about that Vikings team. I’m sure you watched them against the Lions. The defense – just wow! B-Flo sending all those blitzes…7 guys on the line and some of them rush the QB, but you don’t know which 4, or 5 or 6, it is gonna be?!? They’re ridiculous

Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. How do we handle a bye week? Especially one coming off probably the best all around Lions’ game of the season. Whatever happened to “strike while the iron is hot”? Well, each of us had to find our own way to survive a week without a Lions game. Let’s get into our three top

Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. This is Week 5 of the season and I’ve yet to make any running references in this column. I’m sure people that know me would think that is shocking. Running is my “drug of choice” and in addition to the physical benefits, I utilize it for sanity and my mental well being. Of

Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. Taylor Swift Patient Zero Video “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call. No, it’s not a bad time at all I heard somebody saying there’s trouble in paradise And my lips are sealed tight now” That’s the first verse of Taylor Swift’s song Patient Zero. There’s t

Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. We’ve all been there: You head into Costco for toilet paper, but now you are standing in a traffic jam of oversized shopping carts because someone is handing out half a bite-sized pizza roll on a tiny paper plate. As you meander around the store eating samples you stumble

Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. I had the “privilege” of attending the Thursday Night Massacre in Buffalo since Buffalo is only a little over four hours from Flint, my wife suggested we attend the game. Far be it for me to disagree with my lovely bride, so I immediately began investigating it. When we f