Good morning, and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday, February 9, 2023.

And we begin with, the Super Bowl coin toss not going the way many fans had hoped.

An online petition began last weekend, pushing for Donna Kelsey, the first mom to have two

boys play against each other in the big game, do the honors. But it was not to be, and

Mama Kelsey is good with that. Instead, the NFL will honor one of their own, specifically

Pat Tillman, who was an Arizona Cardinal in 2002, when he left football to enlist in

the army. As Mrs. Kelsey noted, the military is more important than I am. And there's

a lot of people who put their blood, sweat, and tears out there for the USA. I have not.

I've been a banker and sat in a cushy chair for most of my career. Nervs may keep her

from sitting at all on Sunday. Look for her in her trademark jersey, half for Jason

and the Eagles, and half for Travis and the Chiefs. Aside from the six minutes you spend

intently listening to Kid News, do morning stress you out? You're not alone. British

researchers have apparently pinpointed the exact time of day when most of us are most

frazzled. And that time is 723 AM. The recent study was commissioned by Rescue Remedy and

pulled 2,000 Brits. Interestingly enough, that specific stress time set in even before

our little daily dramas begin, which they found is typically around 750. Topping the list

of what can set us off, being stuck in traffic, spilling something on our clothes, dropping

and breaking something, waking up late, or spilling something on the carpet.

The organization determined to rid the oceans of plastic just received a big financial

boost from Airbnb. Ocean cleanup's first contraption was deployed in the Great Pacific

garbage patch between Hawaii and California in late 2021. Since then, it has removed nearly

500,000 pounds of plastic from an area twice the size of Texas. That success caught the

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