A reoccurring bother of mine is the assumed self importance of trivial matters. At the forefront of the most recent resurgence of the my cow is holier than your cow is the outrage over the NFL canceling a football game.
Oh dear bob say it isn’t so they didn’t cancel a football game, it’s the end of days, the Mayans predicted the cancellation of this very event… whoa and doom it is the end time… Oh dear bob what ever are we to do? Alas and le sigh even.
AH… get over it might be a plan.
Just spit-balling here but isn’t football a game, played by a group of commercial franchises who make a schedule up on their own and play in a series of matches culminating in a championship match between two teams. So if those owners of the said franchises decided they would just stop doing this business they could without any discussion from anyone else.
Wait what?
Yes is the answer there. Ok then it’s a game that has nothing to do with anything but that game. And the one time the NFL really makes decision that you know maybe it’s not safe for the fans to come out and get home, we should probably not have the game today lets play it another day because;
A.) it’s a FIRETRUCKING GAME
B.) we’ll look like real ship heads if someone gets hurt
C.) We make the rules so we can do this
D.) Did we mention it’s a game???? We did ok
Now the Governor of PA has called this as a sign that we are a nation of WUSSIES.
Really a nation of wussies. Maybe you have a point there but a counter point which we’ll ignore is that your candied ass probably hasn’t really had a really hard day in the last 20 years so careful who you call wussies.
However ignoring his own pampered existence he later he gets all nostalgic about a game he attended back in the day when it was snowing so hard you could barely see the field and how it was magical and football isn’t a wussies game and blah, blah, blah.
Governor that game has numbed your head and it has not thawed yet. It is a game and you sat your dumb as in the freezing cold to watch a bunch of then underpaid grown men bang around on each other, brilliant idea. Now you expect people to sit and watched now overpaid grown men play a game with a ball, your brilliance it boggling.
And I respect it was your choice to do that, really I do. But I also have the right to say you are a loon for doing so. However, had the game been cancelled because of the weather you would have been sadden for sure but ultimately alright with it because it is a game.
Now today the cities are still adversely effected by the snow from a few days ago. While it is not snomaggedon levels from last year the same problems all of our megalopolis urban centers. They have no place to put snow that doesn’t melt and accumulates over a few inches in a short span of time. This causes lots of problems all on it’s own without any help.
Lots and lots of snow causes even more problems. You know what causes even more problems. Lemmings in the snow and by lemmings I mean sports fans and people out in the snow with no real reason to be out in the snow.
Not that sports fans alone are lemming in nature I too have run with the herd a few times and I’m not proud but by in large we all have the potential to be that lemming. It’s mob mentality and the idea that closing at any time is a short coming, a failure, un-American and boarding on tyranny is just inane.
It isn’t being a wuss it’s dare I say it exercising some common sense.
What? Blasphemy ? Well I do bare the mark of a heretic but blasphemy by bob no.
We have all gotten a bit too big for our britches and the attitude that everything that happens here is so gosh darn important that the world will end if it doesn’t happen on a set and timely scheduled is ridiculous.
Because most of what 99.9% of us do is really rather unimportant but that doesn’t mean don’t do it. It just means have some sense about when you do, do what you do. Yes I said do, do. Lol and Har-dee-har. ROFL and all
Seriously another several thousand vehicles on the road thousands of people out and about that didn’t need to be out just gets in the way of the road crews trying to get things back in action quickly, safely and effectively. If they have to wait to clear a road because football fans in tread bare tires are out on the road and have caused a pile up more than just football fans are effected. Because face it left to those of us choosing to go and weighing if is safe or not isn’t the best litmus test for lemmings. Here is how that would have played out. It’s snowing and it might snow a lot, it cost me a bunch of money for the tickets, I might be stuck in Philly, I paid a lot for tickets I’m not losing that money the economy sucks right now I’ll go ahead and risk it and that is what 90% or more of the fans would have done.
So Governor, really I get it you might need some face time with the public and you want to seem like a go get ‘em kinda guy but why not use that face time to support a common sense choice that was made that maybe did help keep things from being a much more real news issue than the postponement of a game.
I’ll let you use your imagination on what the headlines might have been on this one because I have a pretty active imagination and the headline I think up might make you pee in your pants a little bit. And one more thought you hypocritical sycophant had the headlines been tragic you would have had your nostalgic foot so far down the NFL’s throat that a proctologist could have told the news your shoe size.
Maybe we all just need to take a step back and slow down a bit and not just about football, about all of it. I just spent the last few days calmly with the beta unit and you know it was alright, no agenda, no time table, no stress…ok a little stress but not a lot and I still need a lot of work on the 8 paths
In other news
NYC Mayor has a bad attitude about people bitching that snow crews can’t clean the streets and can’t cleans them without doing a shit ton of property damage.
Ah… I am a bit on the fence on this one.
Really you live in Manhattan why do you need a car? If you have car park it in New Jersey and take a taxi to it because you really are only driving your car when you leave the city anyway.
On the side of the people it you can’t get the equipment safely down the street don’t clean the street with equipment that is designed to move earth for construction.
Our major cities or megalopolises have no place to put snow when really bad storms hit. They just don’t so if you live in a major city you are going to deal with snow being a pain in your ass when you get a lot of it. So make plans to have places to put snow when you at times get a sh*t ton of it. That might mean you keep a lot open in every block or dig a melting pit that is powered by geothermal to convert the snow into water and send it down in the storm drains. There are two ideas with almost no thought point being you need a plan. And citizens really you know they city is going to mash your car or bury at the very least if you leave it on the street so don’t park on the street or don’t have a car.
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iJ, has no business buying a firearm but looks pretty good in the blaze orange hat
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