Simple experiments can be good. So celebrate the simple, maybe boil some brats in beer and slather on spicy mustard. Get some of those Salt & Vinegar Kettle Chips, and give yourself a break. Go root for some blue and orange, or green and gold, or even black and silver if you must. We’d recommend staying away from silver and blue around here at least, in whatever variety you find it, particularly should you prefer that suitably pretentious “nautical blue” with your “new century silver” (and red).

By the way, at the risk of continuing to sound less than well-informed on possibly more important public matters, how exactly can you have an “Ed” without an “Op” in it again? Perhaps we will continue to ruminate upon this over the weekend — during halftime, of course.

[Quick “Ed” from the Ed here: Raised in a newspaper household, D.Minion tells us that the “Op” refers to opposite the editorial, or one penned by an individual outside of the newspaper staff — as compared to opinion as the rest of us thought. Naturally we responded as would any real American these days: “What’s a newspaper? And what’s a pen?”]