Vampire Bats

As I watched the Browns cement their role as good-will ambassadors to the rest of the NFL today, I took solace in one thing: The made-for-TV movie "Vampire Bats" would be airing after football on CBS. I haven't been this excited for a TV movie since "Spring Break Shark Attack" or "Riding the Bus With My Sister."

According to the CBS plot summary, it presents valuable lessons about public policy, such as the importance of the presumption of innocence, as well as the need for clean water.

A former USDA voracious insect specialist who is now a college professor, Maddy Rierdon (Lawless), in search of a simpler life, has moved to Louisiana with her husband, Dan Dryer (Dylan Neal), and their two daughters. But her life becomes more complicated when one of her students is found dead with his body covered in mysterious puncture marks and completely depleted of blood.

When two of Rierdon's students are implicated in the boy's death, she immediately gets caught up in the investigation and discovers that the student was killed by a swarm of bats. When other attacks occur and more people are found dead in a similar fashion, evidence leads Rierdon to discover that these are not ordinary bats, but aggressive vampire bats that have mutated due to a tainted water supply. Though she tries to discourage them, several of her students volunteer to help in the investigation, which could put them in grave danger. But Rierdon knows that she doesn't have a choice and must find a way to halt the bats' deadly progress.

Don't you hate how complicated life gets when one of your students is found dead with his body covered in mysterious puncture marks and completely depleted of blood? Anyway, I'm sitting here as the late-afternoon NFL games end, and I totally can't wait for "Vampire Bats" to begin. If only we hadn't set our clocks back last night, it would be happening in 22 minutes instead of 82.