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Friday TigerBlog - Twas The Day After Christmas
December 26, 2025 | Tiger Blog
How was your Christmas?
Did you get any good presents? TigerBlog did — an air fryer from his children. He's already used it, with great results. It will get a lot of use going forward.
Hopefully everyone else was as excited when they opened their presents.
Among the other highlights of TB's Christmas Day was the halftime show of the Lions-Vikings game. Snoop Dog, Lainey Wilson and Andrea Bocelli? Something for everyone.
Can you look much cooler than Bocelli did in a white suit with sun glasses in a domed stadium while he sang "White Christmas?" Maybe Steve McQueen on a motorcycle at the end of "The Great Escape." Maybe Telly Savalas in any episode of "Kojak." That's about it.
By the way, unless you count some leftover snow in parking lots, it was not a white Christmas in Princeton. It figures to be a white "day after Christmas," with 3-5 inches forecast, with an unhelpful layer of ice on top of that.
Back at the football game, Minnesota won 23-10 to knock Detroit out of playoff contention. It made TB think back to September, when he made these not-so-accurate preseason NFL predictions:
AFC Championship Game: Buffalo over Cincinnati
NFC Championship Game: Detroit over Washington
Super Bowl: Buffalo over Detroit
He can still be right about the Super Bowl champ. The other three teams won't even be in the playoffs. In fairness, Cincinnati and Washington did loose their quarterbacks for most of the year, and they were the main reason why TB had them where he did.
He also wrote this:
If he's right, he'll remind you in February. If he's wrong, you'll have long since forgotten.
And yet he's bringing it up again.
Also, TB thought Drew Brees was pretty good as an announcer. TB didn't like the extended in-game interviews Netflix had with former greats.
The first game yesterday was Dallas at Washington, two teams who were already mathematically out of the playoffs. The last game was Denver at Kansas City. That makes six teams who played yesterday, five of whom will not be in the playoffs.
Chris Oladokun was the starting quarterback for Kansas City. Can you name the three colleges at which he had played? Hint - they all start with an "S."
Meanwhile, back at Princeton Athletics, you're down to two more athletic events for the calendar year of 2025.
The first of those two is Sunday, when the men's hockey team hosts Brown at 2 pm. Keep in mind that this game is not an official ECAC or Ivy game. Princeton last played on Dec. 6, has a 7-4 record to date and fell to Brown 2-1 in Providence on Nov. 7 and will play the Bears again on Hobey Baker ice on Feb. 7.
The other will be Tuesday at 1, when the men's basketball team hosts Vermont. Princeton played a wild game earlier this year with Vermont in Florida that ended with a 79-74 win for the Catamounts. Princeton went from down 23 in the second half all the way back to take the lead before Vermont pulled it out.
After those games, the next games will be in 2026, though that's not that far in the future. There will only be two days with no events until January's schedule kicks off with a women's/men's hockey doubleheader at home a week from today.
As is now a TigerBlog tradition, he will be offering up some year in review stuff next week. What was the top story of this year? There are way too many to choose from, and TB would probably get any number of different answers if he asked 10 or 20 others their thoughts.
It's been a year of incredible success for Princeton teams. It'll be a lot to go through it all — and that of course is a great problem to have.
Also, since it's the end of 2025, TB is contemplating another review for next week, one that goes over the top moments in Princeton Athletics in the first quarter of this century. If you think there are a lot of contenders for 2025, how about for a quarter of a century?
Stay tuned.
Oh, and as for where Oladokun played in college? The answer is South Florida, Samford and South Dakota State.
