A Cornucopia of Awful
October 26, 2009
I have been an NFL fan since I was, I’m guessing, 8 years old; my first favorite team was the Baltimore Colts, and my hero was Johnny U. I picked up the Steelers the season they went, I think it was, 5-9, and they’ve been my main team ever since. In other words, I’ve watched a lot of NFL football…and in all my years, I’ve never seen a season in which there were so many AWFUL football teams. “Bad” doesn’t do these teams justice; there are some bad teams out there, but I’m talking gut-wrenching awful. The Miami Dolphins are a bad football team, but they’re not awful; the Buffalo Bills are pretty close to awful, but I’ll just call them bad. The Jacksonville Jaguars are a bad football team. But after that, there are better than half a dozen teams that are just utterly pathetic.
The Oakland Raiders are an awful team. Hideous. Miserable.
The Kansas City Chiefs are an awful team.
The Tennessee Titans are, inexplicably, an awful football team–though I still think that Jeff Fisher will get this team to at least 5 wins on the year. We’ll see…but right now, this team is just plain awful.
The Cleveland Browns are monstrously awful.
The St. Louis Rams are perfectly ghastly, a thoroughly pitiful, awful team.
The Detroit Lions aren’t the worst team in football, and they’re better than last year–but they’re still awful.
The Washington Redskins are horrid. Putrid. I don’t care if they have two wins, they’re still just an awful team.
The Carolina Panthers likewise have two wins, and they are likewise awful.
Finally, the Tampa Bay Bucs, in a rebuilding year, are an awful football team.
That’s better than a quarter of the teams in the NFL that aren’t just bad, but horrid, despicable, awful teams, and I think I’m being charitable, despite their three wins, for not putting the Bills in that category.
I’ve never seen a season like it. Now, one or two of these teams will manage to win six games, simply because they play each other (and somebody has to win) and there’ll be the occasional “what happened there?” upset (witness the Oakland win over the Eagles). But that fact doesn’t alter the reality: there are some pitiful teams in the league this season, more than any season I remember.
Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Get It
October 26, 2009
Have you heard of Doug Hoffman? He’s a guy in upstate New York who’s running for Congress. He’s running as a Conservative–capital “C”. Not a Republican (and certainly not a Democrat/Socialist). The Democrat is a liberal–but so is the Republican, so much so that she has amazingly garnered the endorsement of ACORN. Mull that over for a minute…ACORN.
Guess who else has endorsed the Republican? Newt Gingrich. Yes, that Newt Gingrich (could there be another?). One of the greatest conservative minds of our time–and yet he’s supporting the liberal Republican, and he was on FoxNews yesterday defending his decision; suffice it to say that it was not one of his finest moments, and in my humble opinion, it serves to reinforce this point: he just doesn’t get it.
Because you see, as long as we vote for the lesser of two evils, we’ll get an evil. As long as we swallow the Republicans’ line that “the Democrats are liberal”–not recognizing that a significant percentage of Republicans are themselves big-government progressives, just slightly-less so than their Democrat compatriots–then we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting all along.
Isn’t the definition of insanity to continue doing the same thing and expecting different results? Put another way, had enough?
The Real Clunker
October 26, 2009
It’s been over a month since I’ve blogged, in large part because I’ve just been so cotton-pickin’ busy. I’m going to catch up to some degree with a few posts over the next few days on various things that have been percolating in my mind. None of the posts will be long, but I’ll be able to get off my chest a bunch of stuff I’ve held in, and do it in fairly quick fashion. If this is beneficial to my readers, I’m happy.
First, here’s why Cash for Clunkers was just another stupid Washington idea, summed up in a quote toward the end of the article: “you can’t raise living standards by breaking windows so some people can get jobs repairing them.” In a nutshell, that is exactly what this asinine legislation attempted to do.
More later…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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