Greetings from the Redneck Riviera! Stage Two of Vacation 2007 took us from Phoenix, where it was 109 degrees with zero humidity, to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity.

Not that you care about the weather, or even about my whereabouts.

Anyway, on the drive down here Thursday night, I was thinking about hype. More accurately, I was trying to think of things that had lived up to their advanced level of promotion. The list was pretty short.

Pulp Fiction. Roger Creager in concert. Bo Jackson's arm. Patron tequila. Miami nightlife. The Mousetrap. LeBron James. That's about it.

What does this have to do with anything? Well... I was thinking about all of that in the context of Manchild.

[Author's Note: Right here is where I'd planned to do a long post about defensive tackles taken with top 10 picks. That will have to wait, though, as a I have a beach and cooler full of beer calling me. More later.]

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