Around this time on most Mondays, we here at America’s Fish would find ourselves sitting in the office of Barry Forbis, the sports editor at the Rocky Mountain News, along with Kevin “Moose” Huhn, Brian “Powerball” Clark and Bob “Quietest Cornhusker Fan Ever” Willis, either talking about what was going to be on the cover the next day or getting lost in another one of Clark’s digressions. But today, there is no newspaper, there is no cover, there is no digression. Instead, we’re on our third cup of coffee, contemplating playing Guitar Hero (Got Band on the Run stuck in the head, might need to exorcise it).

So here it is 2009, and we here at America’s Fish have been so preoccupied with the potentially impending demise of a newspaper and the impending, potentially now-annual loss of a newspaper job that we have left the news of Mike Shanahan’s firing float atop our little pond like a dead fish for nearly three weeks.