Favre slowly becoming part of "Gang Green"; CBS affiliates in WI to carry Jets games.

Favre fever is taking hold of New York and New Jersey - Jets officials estimated that 4,000 people attended this past Sunday morning's practice. That was considerably less than the 10,500 that came out on Saturday. However, it was significantly larger than the average Sunday morning crowd of about 1,700. And 20,000+ Favre Jet jerseys have flown off the Internet.

As far as Jets' game broadcasts in Wisconsin, two of the 16 regular season games are being broadcast nationally. The Week 3 game at San Diego is on Monday Night Football, and the Jets' Week 11 game at New England is a Thursday night NFL Network game. The other 14 games are covered on either CBS or FOX. Affiliates in Wisconsin are required to carry the Packers whenever possible, however, CBS stations in Wisconsin are now faced with the fact that their viewers are going to want to watch Jets games. The station in Milwaukee has already said they will ask CBS to carry as many Jets games as possible. The likelihood that CBS will grant such a request is a pretty solid one.

Additionally Green Bay’s WFRV-TV, Channel 5, will air as many Jets games as possible from CBS Sports this season.

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Oil Rigs and Barbed Wire Fencing

As I made the trek along my usual 5-mile walk through Culver City today (I walk 15 miles a week), I decided to venture through some undiscovered territory - Culver City Park. Now the section of the park I normally walk by is the skate park. The part I never see is in back of the skate park and then along a road that takes you up to the top of a hill, revealing a couple new softball diamonds - I was impressed. Great vantage point for a picture of the surrounding city. This path was more scenic of a walk.

Once at the top I had a great view of Century City (background) and Culver City (foreground). For those of you who don't know, Century City used to belong to 20th Century Fox studios. Much of that land was the backlot - old west town, etc. It was replaced by offices in the 70's and one of the Planet of the Apes flicks (the one when the apes take over the city) was filmed on that spot.

Now adjacent to the park are these oil rigs. They're all over Los Angeles County. You can see some from the beach, near the airport...strange site for Los Angeles. Signs read - Plains Exploration and Production Company. I looked them up on the internet - they're an "independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the activities of acquiring, developing, exploiting, exploring and producing oil and gas properties in the United States. They own oil and gas properties with principal operations in - the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Basins onshore California, the Santa Maria Basin offshore California, the Piceance Basin in Colorado, the Green River Basin in Wyoming, the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, and the Gulf Coast Basin onshore and offshore Louisiana, including the Gulf of Mexico."

Sometimes the rigs work in pairs.

And sometimes they prefer to work alone.

As I descended down the hill out of the park (I took the road), I noticed the fencing along the side of the road enclosing the oil rigs.

And I read the signs posted on every section: Barbed Wire Fence.

And I wondered just how many idiots are living in this city.

As I left, I turned back and waved goodbye. 'Goodbye, ole 59'.

And I wondered what secrets lie beyond the Barbed Wire Fences put up by the Plains Explorations and Production Company that they would prefer I don't trespass-loiter-trespass.

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