🏈 Week Notes 055
🗓️ // Jan 11, 2026 - Jan 17, 2026
This has been a real up and down sports week for the teams I follow to some degree. I've barely followed the NFL for several years now as my interests have turned towards the Premier League and soccer in general, but I'd be a complete fool to not take the time to enjoy a really good Seahawks team with an awesome defense once again, especially with Spurs absolutely killing me right now.
🏈 Seahawks vs 49ers (41-6) Epic home shellacking of their division rivals. They started off with a 97-yard opening kickoff touchdown and never looked back. It was really fun to see a stellar Seahawk defense dominate an opponent like we haven't seen since the Legion of Boom days. Props for the Dark Side moniker they've adopted as well. They'll face Chicago or their other division rival Los Angeles Rams depending on who wins tomorrow.
🏀 Zags won their games this week despite losing star forward Brendan Hough for 4-8 weeks with a knee injury he picked up in practice. I'm trying to remember the last big player the Zags lost to a fairly significant injury for a long period. Steele Venters is probably the worst ever scenario, but he wasn't an established player and both time it wasn't in the middle of the season for peack disruption. I feel like the Zags have been quite fortunate in this regard during Mark Few's tenure.
⚽️ The Spurs hierarchy is absolutely killing me. Spurs lost to relegation favorite West Ham 2-1 at home yesterday, and all signs point to them still being divided on what to do about the clearly failed Thomas Frank era. Largely absent from the discussion about Spurs is the fact that Johan Lange and ownership have played a huge role in the two-year slide down the table because they've been investing money in unproven youth and not reinforcing the squad with experienced players and scoring pedigree after losing Kane, Son, and now Johnson.
⚽️ Spurs finally showed some life in the January transfer window and signed Conor Galagher, a midfielder they've admired for a long time, but in light of current events it feels like too little too late.
Playing
🧙♂⛏️🎮 Hytale came out in Early Access this week, and after helping Houston sign up, decided to also pick up a Standard ($20) account myself. It's a very cool evolution of the sandbox genre that Minecraft established, and I'm really impressed with how good it was out of the gate. So many mobs, materials, and cool movement animations.
🧙♂ I knocked out my Daily Quests this week on Magic Arena and had a good showing on Midweek Magic which was Avatar the Last Airbender phantom sealed. I think I went 3-0 or 3-1.
🧙♂ The girls finally realized that the TLA set is about to be replaced by Lorwyn Eclipsed and got interested in picking up some Avatar avatars (heh!) so I helped them get logged in and earn a little bit more gold. Only S was a little bit short on gold so I helped her get to the 5000 needed to buy the Firebending avatar 4 pack with Iroh, Azula, Zuko, and the Firelord.
⛏️ Played a little bit of Minecraft with the kids this week, but minimal solo play. I think it's been almost two weeks since I've played my solo world in fact.
Watching
📺 Fallout S2E5: The Wrangler 👍👍 Lots of interesting backstory, reveals, and cliffhangers in this one. Looking forward to seeing where we go from here during the final three episodes of the season.
📺 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 👍👍 debuted with the first two episodes already being available and I'm loving it. Fun cast in general, but Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti (to a lesser but still relevant extent) being part of the show is next level. I thought the first two episodes were great, and one critic said they were the weakest of the batch released to reviewers, so fingers crossed.
📺 Gintama 👍 Wildly satyrical historical Japan sci-fi comedy mashup that makes me laugh. Watched the two-part opener on a whim and enjoyed it, but not ready to start binging it.