Some Late Night Thoughts...

Greetings once again from the Banana Republic, where our B.A.G. thinks that a race-baiting, homophobic, right-wing talking head who just recently died is apparently worthy of a state-wide

honor. Pfft, whatever. Anyway, Tampa is still basking in the afterglow of the Buccaneers' recent victory in Super Bowl LV (thank you, Tom Brady), and yes, we're going for two in a row.

Some serious third-world sh*t

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, then you undoubtedly have heard about Mother Nature giving the central part of the US the cold shoulder, literally. Temperatures in most of the country plummeting to Arctic-like lows. We're talking near zero temperatures as far south as Texas. Speaking of which, you surely know about the disaster that has unfolded there this week. Millions there are STILL without power, and even more have a boil water order.

This type of stuff doesn't even happen in some third-world countries, let alone the most powerful one on Earth* (editorial comment: it was until Trump was elected). Texas wants to do things their own way because they don't want government regulations, and therein lies the problem; their power grid runs independently, which means they don't have to require their power lines to be winterized, much like in the midwest and northeast. My guess is because of global warming, they figured they didn't need to be; bad decision.

I knew it got cold in Texas from watching the Thanksgiving 1993 NFL game between the Cowboys and Dolphins. If you're a fan of either team, you know which one. If you don't follow sports, a freak winter storm hit greater Dallas that day and caused the turf at old Texas Stadium to be covered in sleet. The rest, for Cowboys fans, is misery.

Oh, before I head off to the next topic, don't get me started on Ted Cruz...

Speaking of old school football

One side project I've done is to try and recreate certain memories of my childhood (I know, I'm a dork for that). One such memory is graphics packages on NFL telecasts of the early 1980s, in particular how the helmets appeared on both CBS and NBC. But Bony, it's just a copy of the helmets they wore; not quite. 

As you can see above, this is my recreation of the helmets on NBCs NFL telecasts from 1981-1983. Back then, their graphics were such that the network only could use two colors at a time. Notice that the Bucco Bruce helmet has no red. Also, the faceguards in the photo aren't quite right. I'll get around to fixing them sometime. Anyway, some of those telecasts are on YouTube, so it's a matter of me finding them there (I can't find the Eagles helmet from back then though...)

Shooting my shot...again

Well another Valentine's Day has come and gone, and for me it was the status quo; me stuck being single. Of course this never-ending pandemic has thrown a wrench into everyone's plans. No travel, no personal contact, no nothing (that I know of). In the meantime, there are several I'm kinda interested in. From different parts of the country no less, including Tampa. There are several things hindering me from doing so, most notably members of my own family. My disability checks are going to my sister (which in retrospect was a bad mistake), and I only see little of that. Money I could use to take care of my business not her's. Long story short, I think this is her way of making sure I stay put, because if it were totally up to me, I'd have left Tampa in 2019...

anyway, it's getting late, so I'll finish up. See you on Twitter.

Destiny Awaits...

Today, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers can reach their second ever Super Bowl with a victory over the Green Bay Packers in snowy Lambeau Field. A victory would be noteworthy in the fact that the Bucs will become the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium. San Francisco played SB XIX in nearby Palo Alto, CA and the Rams played SB XIV in Pasadena; de facto home games but not quite their home stadium.

Also, with a win the Tampa Bay metro area will reach some elite company. It will become the first metro area since Boston in 2018-19 to play for three successive Major League (NHL, NBA, MLB, NFL) championships (Red Sox won the World Series, Patriots won the Super Bowl, Bruins lost the Stanley Cup Final), and the first since Philadelphia in 1980-81 to have three or more Major League teams in said market to have all their respective teams reach the championship game/round for that respective sport. The Lightning are the defending Stanley Cup Champions and the Rays are the defending American League Champions.

Krewe, destiny awaits...

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A Little Bit Of Hodgepodge

Hello again from America's most dysfunctional metropolitan area. Thought I would briefly touch base on some things I wanted to write about over the past few weeks, but didn't get to do so for one reason or another. So, here we go...


You're The Man Now Dog

Remember a couple of weeks ago on my Twitter page I had some songs that were rather quite eclectic to say the least, and I asked what those songs all had in common? Well, it is now a defunct website, but YTMND.com up until the advent of twitter, Vine, TikTok, etc., was a somewhat popular site to post memes and the like, such as this one, or this one. Anyway, they have a wiki devoted to it that lists some of the popular memes, and in it, there even is a soundtrack to most of the background music for their memes, which is where I made a playlist and posted said songs on Twitter. So it was a bit of an enjoyable time capsule to about a decade ago...

I Just Took A DNA Test...

Sunday night marks the beginning of the latest Top 40 chart week, and it looked as if Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" may have dethroned "Senorita" and the top of the chart, but the behemoth of a song from Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello continues to gain in airplay, so it looks like it will hold on for a third week. Look for Post Malone to debut with "Circles" this week. He even has his own Funko Pop now, so maybe if a four-year old scribbled on my face, I might become famous (no I won't). All kidding aside, he has a hot debut album that dropped today (as well as the aforementioned Cabello) and I should give it a listen sometime tonight.

Stop Annoying Me With Your Toxic Positivity!

I don't know what peeves me more, the fact that everyone cocks up the geography of this region (TAMPA BAY is NOT a city people!), or that a baseball team that practically nobody gives a shit about, except for about a maybe 10,000 people (including those that have multiple twitter accounts), are doing so well and will likely make the wild card, only to get swept by the teams everyone DOES root for around here, the Evil Empire. Seriously, you tried to give away tickets Tuesday to people who were displaced from Hurricane Dorian and only sold 6,844. And even less on Thursday. If a tree fell on Scrub Boy (those of you who follow me closely on twitter know who I'm talking about), and nobody is around to cover it, does it actually happen? America's ballpark my ass; team of the people my ass...enough about an otherwise irrelevant team.

College Saturday...

As mentioned a couple of posts ago, I would take five games without any knowledge or research and pick the winners. I picked two games on opening week, and lost them both. After a week off, I'll try and do better.

Missouri over West Virginia . I don't like WVU, their coach has a stupid hairdo, plus it's Missouri, who I owe a lot of gratitude for saving a special someone's life

Georgia Tech over USF. UCF>>>>>>>>>>USF; forever.

Texas A&M over Clemson. Picking the upset here, A&M almost had Clemson beat last year, this year they finish the job

Illinois over UConn. Why is Connecticut even in the Bowl Subdivision? I hear they're leaving for the Big East again, so why not downgrade their already struggling football program?

Alabama over NM State. Too easy, plus seriously, have you seen New Mexico State's logo? Hello? Gun control? I'm surprised someone hasn't been triggered (pardon the pun) by it.


Well, that's my little bit of hodgepodge for today. Enjoy the rest of your Friday



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My 2019 NFL predictions thread

Hello! Labor Day has passed which means three things; Halloween candy starts appearing on grocery store shelves, basic white folks go cuckoo over pumpkin spice, and the NFL season is upon us. And this season is special because the NFL is celebrating 100 years in existence. Two of the three original franchises that has stuck around for all 100 seasons kick off the season Thursday night, the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears.

In years past, I would take to various outlets on social media and predict the game winners each week; I won't do that this year.  Instead, I'll use this post to give you who I think will be around come January and the first week of February in Miami.

NFC South:

I start with this division because it's the division with the closest team to me (Bucs) , the team where I was born in (Falcons), and closest team to where I grew up (Panthers, which came along after I finished high school). That leaves the Saints as the only outlier, and guess what? After their horrible pass interference no-call that went against them last January in the NFC Title game, they're going to win this division again. The other three teams will be battling it out for second, which is basically a crapshoot as to who will be the most mediocre. The Bucs are interesting, because IF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT (and knowing Tampa's history, there's a better chance of a Hurricane actually making landfall there than everything going right), they MIGHT contend for a wild card spot. On the other hand, I don't think they'll be as bad as what some experts are making them out to be. So I say, 8-8 (and I'm being somewhat generous).

NFC East:

I think Philly takes it, partially because I have a soft spot for that city and the fact that I loathe the Cowboys. Giants will be better in my opinion, and as for the R******s, screw them. Dan Snyder has ruined everything about this franchise; their "home" games are now a de-facto home games for visiting fans; think Tampa during the 80s. As for the Cowboys, I think they'll at least get a wild card; they're just too good, which unfortunately we'll have to hear Skip Baeless (sic) chirp about how great they are all year despite having two playoff wins since 1995...

NFC North:

I hope to move to St. Louis one day (personal reasons), so my "future" team, the Bears, gets my nod.
Packers will be mediocre; I don't think Mr. Discount Double Check has enough pieces around him. Let's just hope for his sake Danica's she-shed doesn't get hit by lightning and burn to the ground. Enough with the lame insurance commercial references though. Minnesota places third (because to hell with one particular fan who's obsessed with pumpkin spice), and Detroit just hopes to somewhat relevant.

NFC West:

I think the LA Rams take it again...barely. Surely they have to have a bitter taste in their mouths after scoring 3 points in the Super Bowl, which kinda makes me want to put on my tin foil hat about the  pass interference no-call I alluded to in a previous paragraph. I like Seattle, they recently traded for LaDaveon Clowney plus Russell Wilson is getting paid. they'll surely get the wild card...at least. San Francisco should be improved, as long as Jimmy Garrapolo plays a full season. Arizona? Forget it, they may be last in the conference.

AFC East:

Easiest division to forecast. New England and three scrubs. Hopefully Buffalo will turn some heads this season. Jets and Dolphins are rebuilding.

AFC North:

Most people think the Steelers will be back; I say not so fast. I love Cleveland. I think they'll win their first division title in THIRTY years. Ravens and Steelers will battle for second. Bengals will stink.

AFC South:

This was easy, then Andrew Luck retired, now it's a battle of supremacy among four average teams. Tennessee is my pick because they're the least flawed in my opinion. Maybe the Texans can step up. I don't trust the Jags, and the Dolts can rot.

AFC West:

Kansas City should have won the AFC last year, but a critical offside penalty negated a game-clinching interception, and the bad guys won...again. This year we should see more Mahomes magic, and maybe another deep playoff run. That is unless the LA Chargers have something to say about that, thing is Philip Rivers isn't getting any younger, and his window of opportunity is closing fast. Denver is about average, and can anyone what the hell is up with the leagues most dysfunctional team, the (insert your city's name here) Raiders? Antonio Brown, football's biggest drama queen, has done nothing but complain the entirety of training camp. Thank goodness Pittsburgh no longer has to deal with him.

NFC PLAYOFFS:

Chicago over Dallas
Seattle over Philadelphia
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New Orleans over Seattle
Chicago over LA Rams
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New Orleans over Chicago

AFC PLAYOFFS:

LA Chargers over Tennessee

Cleveland over Baltimore

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Cleveland over New England
Kansas City over LA Chargers
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Kansas City over Cleveland

So, we get the Super Bowl we SHOULD have gotten last year this year. The last time the game was in Miami was 2010, and the Saints beat a high-powered offense that year in Indianapolis. This year, history repeats itself.

SUPER BOWL  54:

New Orleans over Kansas City.

Happy Football!!


CT

College Football Is Here...ALREADY?!

Can you believe it? We're not even a week to go until September and already college football is underway. Watching the first few minutes of "College Gameday" this morning, the experts were talking about Clemson and Alabama in the championship game...again. Ugh, same shit, different year.

I wish somethin could be done to fix the continuity problem that college football seemingly has; every year you can pencil in five or six teams to be in championship contention. Alabama, Ohio State, a second SEC school, a Big XII school, Notre Dame, and an ACC school. It's gets redundant and tiresome after a while.

Unfortunately, the current system is dominated by television, and as Daft Punk once said, television rules the nation.  But what if college football weren't held down by exorbitant television deals and ESPN? And it was a utopian sport without the shady recruiting practices and under the table deals (I assume they happen) that the big schools get away with more often than not?

A few months ago, I decided to totally revamp the system in my head. First, there would be a sixteen-team playoff to determine the national champion. Second, I would totally realign the conferences. How so? Well, let me explain.

Currently, the "power 5", as it's known, looks like this:

Atlantic Coast		Southeastern		Big Ten		Pac 10		Big 12
Boston College		Alabama		Illinois		Arizona		Baylor
Clemson		Arkansas		Indiana		Arizona State		Kansas
Duke		Auburn		Iowa		California		Kansas State
Florida State		Florida		Maryland		UCLA		Iowa State
Georgia Tech		Georgia		Michigan		Colorado		Oklahoma
Louisville		Kentucky		Michigan State		Oregon		Oklahoma St
Miami		LSU		Minnesota		Oregon State		Texas
North Carolina		Mississippi		Nebraska		So. California		Texas Christian
NC State		Miss State		Northwestern		Stanford		Texas Tech
Pittsburgh		Missouri		Ohio State		Utah		West Virginia
Syracuse		South Carolina		Penn State		Washington
Virginia		Tennessee		Purdue		Washington St
Virginia Tech		Texas A&M		Rutgers
Wake Forest		Vanderbilt		Wisconsin

with the other conferences in the Bowl Subdivision looking like this:

Conf USA		Independents		Mountain West		MAC		Sun Belt		American
Charlotte		Army		Air Force		Akron		App. St		UCF
Florida Atlantic		BYU		Boise State		Ball State		Arkansas State		Cincinnati
Florida Int'l		Notre Dame		Colorado State		Bowling Green		Ga Southern		Connecticut
Louisiana Tech		Massachusetts		Fresno State		Buffalo		Georgia State		ECU
Marshall		Liberty		Hawaii		Central Mich		Idaho		Houston
Middle Tenn				Nevada		Eastern Mich		LA-Lafayette		Memphis
North Texas				UNLV		Kent State		LA-Monroe		Navy
Old Dominion				New Mexico		Miami OH		New Mexico St		USF
Rice				San Diego State		Northern IL		South Alabama		SMU
Southern Miss				San Jose State		Ohio		Texas State		Temple
Texas El Paso				Utah State		Toledo		Troy		Tulane
UTSA				Wyoming		Western Mich		CCU		Tulsa

One of the first things I did was take the schools from the American Conference and add them to the Power 5, making it a Power 6 and shut up UCF fans who feel they're slighted from the national conversation. Second, I decided to put schools in conferences that geographically made sense; that means that West Virginia is out of the Big XII, and Missouri and Texas A&M are out of the SEC and back in the Big XII. Also, Maryland, Rutgers, and Penn State are no longer In the Big 10. I also decided to break up the northern schools in the ACC, which means Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse, and BC are out of that conference.

As for the American, I decided to completely obliterate the conference altogether since geographically it's all over the place. The three northeast schools, UConn, Temple, and Navy I decided to leave in. I also decided to add Pitt, Syracuse, and Boston College from the ACC, Penn State, Rutgers, and Maryland from the Big 10, and West Virginia from the Big XII. I also tossed in Army (natural rival with Navy) and UMass to make it twelve teams so a championship game could be played. The American now has all of the northeast's FBS schools in one conference; oh and the backyard brawl between WVU and Pitt is back. You're welcome.

As for Cincinnati, I decided to place them and Louisville from the ACC and place them in the SEC to replace Texas A&M and Missouri. The Big XII with the departure of West Virginia and the re-addition of A&M and Missouri makes 11 teams; they need a 12th. Why not Houston? Problem solved. The Big Ten now has a problem with 11 teams. Simple solution: add Notre Dame. Then you have the ACC who I split apart already. They've gone from fourteen to ten schools. But don't worry, I've got a solution. Hey, UCF. You know how you complain about being in an inferior league and not much recognition. Well, you and USF can take your petty "War on I-4" to the ACC. Good luck with that.

That leaves the Pac 12 as the only conference remaining. Truth be told, I was going to leave them alone, but then I realized that Boise State might complain that I had given preferential treatment to UCF for putting them in a power conference and not them. So at the last minute I added them and BYU to the conference.

So, here's what your new Power Six would look like:

								Atlantic Coast Southeastern Big Ten Big 12 Pac 10 American UCF Alabama Illinois Baylor Arizona Boston College Clemson Arkansas Indiana Kansas Arizona State Connecticut Duke Auburn Iowa Kansas State Boise State Penn State Florida State Cincinnati Michigan Houston BYU Rutgers Georgia Tech Florida Michigan State Iowa State California Maryland Miami Georgia Minnesota Oklahoma Colorado West Virginia North Carolina Kentucky Nebraska Oklahoma St Oregon Pittsburgh NC State Louisville Northwestern Texas Oregon State Syracuse USF LSU Notre Dame Texas Christian USC Navy Virginia Mississippi Ohio State Texas Tech Stanford Army Virginia Tech Miss State Purdue Texas A&M UCLA Temple Wake Forest South Carolina Wisconsin Missouri Utah Massachusetts Tennessee Washington Vanderbilt Washington St
								As for the other conferences, they would look like this after realignment:
								Mountain West MAC Sun Belt Conf USA South Atlantic Air Force Akron Arkansas State UAB East Carolina Colorado State Ball State Texas El Paso Louisiana Tech Ga Southern Fresno State Bowling Green New Mexico St Memphis Georgia State Hawaii Buffalo Tulsa Middle Tenn Charlotte Nevada Central Mich So Methodist Troy Florida Atlantic UNLV Eastern Mich Texas State South Alabama Florida Int'l New Mexico Kent State UTSA LA-Lafayette Marshall San Diego State Miami OH North Texas LA-Monroe Old Dominion San Jose State Northern IL Rice Southern Miss Appalachian St Utah State Ohio  Idaho Western KY Coastal Carolina Wyoming Toledo Tulane Liberty Western Mich
								The 16-team playoff would go like this: Winners from the Power Six conferences get an automatic bid, plus two winners amongst the other five conferences. Plus eight at-large bids. First and second round games would be on the campus of the higher seed, then the bowl system would fill in the other matchups. Until you get to the National Championship game at a pre-determined site.  Would this solve everything wrong about college football? Of course not, but it doesn't hurt to dream. As for this season, I'm going to try something I haven't done before: predict the winners of certain games. Since there are only two this week, I have two picks. No research or analysis here, just fling by the seat of my pants. This evening in Orlando, Miami and Florida renew acquaintances. Honestly, I think this could (and should) be an annual series, but it seems like one school keeps trying to duck from the other. I am a Gators fan, but not a "Tim Tebow is our lord and savior, and the world needs to revolve around him" Gators fan. And no fangirls, he isn't going to get called up by the Mets this season, so quit dreaming. You're almost as annoying as Rays fans (who I promise to get to in another post...someday). As for Miami, they have not even been to the ACC title game let alone win an ACC title...yet. Hopefully the game will be entertaining, but I have Miami in an upset.  The other game pits Arizona at Hawaii. My only thought on this is will I stay up to watch it? Probably not, but it would be nice to hear Rich Waltz (formerly of the Marlins and ow with CBSSN) again. Arizona wins a squeaker.  Enjoy your Saturday! CT

A Hashtag Game Played, And A Nerve Touched...

Early Monday morning, I participated in a hashtag game entitled "#RepublicansMakeMe." My response was simple and honest.  Apparently, I touched a nerve; over 34,000 impressions and counting. Well, for those of you who may be intrigued, allow me to explain.

As most of you know, I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida and have been in this area for the better part of the last two decades, since my enlistment in the Navy ended. For most of the first ten years, I'd say living here has been somewhat enjoyable; I don't like it now.  A main reason for this is of course #FloridaMan, but another reason I've grown disgusted with Florida is politics, especially in the era, or error of Trump. Florida is of course the ultimate swing state politically (remember the late Tim Russert with his white board on the night of the 2000 election?), and the Tampa Bay area lies right on the ultimate swing vote region; the I-4 Corridor.

Now you don't need me to tell you that I-4 sucks. Orlando? Right on I-4. Disney? Just off I-4. Daytona Int'l Speedway? Not far from I-4. You get the idea. It's full of gridlock, headaches, and possibly road rage (which is a dangerous combination in and of itslef, #FloridaMan and road rage).

But that's the whole interstate, we're talking Tampa, which is he western terminus of the highway from hell. Here you pretty much have an even split between left and right, but by listening to "local" news-talk radio (and I use that term VERY loosely) it's rather one-sided. I haven't listened in almost three years because of this very fact. On said station you have two old guys (I guess they haven't retired yet) complaining about the left, followed by Mr. Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs himself, Glenn Beck (more on him later), then Rush Limbaugh, then Sean Hannity, then the former #1 morning FM personality now Trump fanboy Todd Schnitt. Then, if not preempted for Lightning hockey, it's Mark Levin, who beckons for the halcyon days of the Reagan administration and basically will call anyone who dares calls his show to disagree with him a moron and then proceeds to hang up on said caller. In other words, an insufferable murder of crows (as opposed to murderer's row) of right-wing talking heads.

So essentially in my mind, you have 16-hours plus of right wing (12 of those NON LOCAL) talk crammed down our throats all day courtesy of the iHeart (iHate Local) Radio behemoth. It's like Sinclair Broadcasting only it's radio and it makes me want to puke. Yes, I know that a radio station is not the reason to move from an area, but when you have to put up with listening to Trump clones all day and all night, enough is enough.

What's weird about all this was up until 2015, I supported the GOP. My stepmom grew up not far from where Reagan grew up in Illinois, and was an election official in the (predominantly Republican) precinct of  the town in North Carolina I grew up in. The Tea Party (and Sarah Palin) helped put a big damper on the GOP, and the eight years of Obama weren't as bad as Republicans made it out to be; in fact it was pretty damn good if I'm being honest I had my suspicions about Bush to be honest, but I was too naïve I guess to speak out about it, except one time.

In the year following 9/11, I noticed that the aforementioned radio station was heavily backing anything and everything GWB said. I called it into question on an internet bulletin board, only to get shot down by a nighttime radio host (and company douchebag guy) on the FM sister station. So after that I kinda kept quiet about everything. In retrospect, I shouldn't have. Remember Glenn Beck? Well, before he rose to nationwide "prominence" he was the PM drive host on said AM station I was talking about. In the days after 9/11 he basically gave a rousing rah-rah speech on his monologue. Next thing you know he's nationally syndicated under the ClearChannel national umbrella. The rest, as we used to say, is history.

Now, hindsight being 20/20, was that speech really a rallying cry to the folks stationed at MacDill AFB ( based in Tampa)? OR...was it an attempt by ClearChannel at the time to try to influence public opinion and policy? This goes back to BEFORE 9/11, to 2000 and the hotly contested presidential race. Where is GWB from? Texas. Where was ClearChannel located? San Antonio. Coincidence??? Did they stand to lose more if Al Gore won? Who knows...

But I do know this, the above is a primary reason I want to move to a more moderate area.

CT

Mission Accomplished (Part 3)

Hello again everyone. Seriously, the weather across central Florida this week has really affected my vibe; I have had little motivation to get much of anything, let alone this blog done. Suffice to say the "Sunshine State" isn't living up to her nickname, and all this rain needs to leave.

Anyway, this is the third part of this series of posts (the first two an be found here and here) regarding my system that I have used to chart songs over the years. Now at the end of yesterday's entry, I said that I had found a website that allowed me (and anyone else who's interested) to access old Radio and Records magazines from yesteryear. Well, up to a point. You see in 2006, R/R was bought by VNU media and integrated with Billboard Magazine's Radio Monitor to create a new chart based off Neilsen Soundscan data. Billboard would buy Radio and Records outright three years later,ad effectively ended the publication.

But the methodology used by Radio and Records up until 2006, Mediabase 24/7, would continue, and does so to this very day. I think I mentioned how they went about compiling this data in an earlier entry to this blog, I think it was called "Radio Days." Anyway, the points system I go by is based off those findings, with a few exceptions.

First let me explain how my system works. For every song that reaches the Top 40, a preset point value is assigned. For the first 25 positions (40-16), it works like a reverse points system (40 gets 1, 39 gets 2, and so forth). Then the system starts getting weighted heavily towards the top, like this:

15. 28 pts
14. 30 pts
13. 32 pts
12. 34 pts
11. 37 pts
10. 40 pts
 9.  45 pts
 8.  50 pts
 7.  55 pts
 6.  60 pts
 5.  70 pts
 4.  80 pts
 3.  90 pts
 2. 100 pts
 1. 125 pts

There are also bonus points awarded for chart longevity, and where they are on the chart. I'll explain it over the weekend. Basically, the longer the song is on the chart, the bigger the bonus. Also, the year is the actual calendar year, not from November to November monitored by publications (which would explain "Walk Like An Egyptian" grabbing #1 song of 1987 even though it peaked in December of 1986).

In this weekend's post, I'll go into detail what I have found out from these charts, as well as my rankings for the top song of each year since 1980. Until then, stay dry...

CT