As usual, James stayed up late to celebrate the New Year in his own inimitable way. After doing his countdown from 2018 to 2019, we heard the fireworks going off down the street and went outside to enjoy them on this relatively mild first day of January. The firework shows on New Years are pretty impressive since they legalized firework sales in Michigan.

The news was not good for Michigan this bowl season as they suffered another second half blowout. I do not know why they look so good at home and sometimes so awful on the road or neutral sites. They also seem tired in these second half blowouts, hope they get it fixed.

James has his own New Years Eve countdown that he does every year. He starts with about 40 seconds till the New Year and then continues on till the zero hour arrives.