Day 495

• Another indication this coronavirus is worse than anyone ever imagined:  It actually has gotten Sean Hannity, no less, to break ranks with his Republican cohorts and demand everyone get vaccinated, due to the fact that enough people have died to it.
• Why?  Polls like the Yahoo News/YouGov poll recently of American unvaccinated:  Nearly two in five now believe the vaccines to be more dangerous than COVID-19 itself.
• Another indication Aaron Rodgers has played his last Green Bay Packer game:  Word out today that Rodgers was to be made the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL with a two-year extension.  Rodgers turned it down flat.
• ESPN already pimping Tampa Bay at New England as the biggest NFL game of the season.  Trial run for the next Super Bowl, as Tampa and Kansas City was?   
• To give the impact of last year's COVID restrictions, the Green Bay Packers (as a public corporation) released their books today:  The Packers lost $149.1 million off of local revenue which would normally have been there had fans been allowed at the games.  Hence, the team operated at a loss of $38.8 million for the last fiscal year.
• OLeksandr Usyk is the next man up for Anthony Joshua after Tyson Fury's COVID positive.
• Looks to me you can load your money on Milwaukee tonight to end the NBA Finals and win the NBA Championship.  Scott Foster will be among the officials tonight, an official Chris Paul has never had a winning game in the playoffs with -- 0-12 or 13, I think.  Would stand to reason.  Three of the players in the Finals have to go directly to Tokyo for Team USA.  As of right now, only eight players are traveling with the team as things stand until the Finals end, either tonight or Thursday.  Team USA's first game is Sunday.   
• Another attempt at a "Trump Won - Save America" banner at an MLB game.  This time in Tampa Bay.  It was received about as well as it was in New York.