The weekend was otherwise okay, aside from the fact that the Steelers are going to the Super Bowl again. I think I'd rather be in a mid-air collision than see the Steelers ever win another Super Bowl, but considering they're playing the suck-wad Cardinals, I don't see how they can lose. Regardless, it's yet another Super Bowl in which I have absolutely no interest. I'm not going to watch a game just to hope someone loses, so I guess I'll just have to hear everyone talk about the commercials the next day. Honestly, I've only watched one Super Bowl in the past eight years. How's that for being a football fan?
Saturday, I broke a shovel while clearing the drive at the old house for a showing that day and an open house the next. Tieraney and I then dumped the kids on her parents and went out to eat for supper. That was cool. We had visions of seeing a movie, too, but there was not a single thing showing that interested us. Bad timing, I suppose. On Sunday, then, the family played in the snow while I shoveled the drive at the new house. They tried to make a snowman, but it ended up looking more like this:
Which I thought was really cool, and made me hungry for mashed potatoes, but Sophie destroyed it before we went back inside. Know what's fun to do with little kids, by the way? Push them down in the snow. With all those extra clothes on, they fall quite easily. Very funny.
Things were pretty uneventful beyond that, which is probably a good thing at this point.
Draw play gains four.
Life's Ball: 4th and 4 on my 45.
I'm similarly positioned regarding football; with the extra oomph that now that I'm forced to root for the Cardinals, that means rooting for Warner, who has the "he's extra jumbo Christian which means he is a great guy" label that gets tossed on Christian athletes (Tebow is the current example), which is not good for me. And the Eagles cost me cash. I have what could be a contentious work thing this week, so really my current condition is more about negative uncertainty. So, that's a midding punt and a fair catch by life at its own 31 - but there's a flag on me for a hold. Will life make me kick it again - or will it take the ball at its 31?
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing about life. It never really makes logical football decisions. And if extra jumbo Christian athletes always get the "he is a good guy" label, why is it everyone said Shaun Alexander is a pussy?
ReplyDelete'Cause you can't suck. If you suck, no one cares.
ReplyDeleteGo back when the Lions were off to a hot start middle of 2007, there's all sorts of "Kitna says god's leading the Lions - and look at the results" talk.
Then when Kitna dies - it all goes away - but no one blames his religion the same way they credited it for his success.
When Alexander comes back early from injury and plays well, he can say it's a miracle and we nod our heads. When his career's over early because of the workload, no one says "huh, what happened to his miraculous recuperative powers." Success+explicit praising of Jesus=constant fellating by sports media. Look up the things said about Tim Tebow this month.
I'm mostly with you. But the thing is that Shaun got no press when he didn't suck. A little more than normal, sure, but when he broke the single season TD record, nothing. It was "possibly" Favre's last home game, and that's what people talked about. When he scored five TDs in one corner, it got some press, but not nearly enough for what he'd done.
ReplyDeleteSo, the press first has to like the guy, then they can talk about the Christianity. And if there's no Christianity, they'll still talk about the guy (Favre? Roethlisberger? I can't say I have any knowlege of their personal beliefs, and yet they're waaayyyyyyyy overhyped. If the press loves you, they'll do so despite your beliefs. If they hate you, they'll do so despite your beliefs. And if you're a hockey player, it won't make a damn bit of different what you believe. No press either way.