tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post5052697250555642119..comments2023-09-13T10:53:12.598-05:00Comments on Tullius est [et Tullius non est Cicero]: One Other Comment About the Article on Sex/Domestic Violence in the NFL BelowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-47472512154571520762014-09-19T21:33:25.244-05:002014-09-19T21:33:25.244-05:00Monash, I feel exactly the same way. I'm close...Monash, I feel exactly the same way. I'm close to being done too. I can barely watch a post-game or pre-game analysis, let alone SportsCenter, which really is a misnomer now. Pre-games and post-games are less and less about the games. <br /><br />Yesterday I turned on pre-game of the Atlanta v. Tampa Bay game to see James Brown in a sit down interview with Lovie Smith, talking about Smith's take on the current "crisis" in the NFL. The tv was off about a minute later. <br /><br />I'm sick of other NFL stuff too though. I'm sick of the pink campaign, I'm sick of the gimmick uniforms. I'm sick of the pregame glitzy stuff, dancing around, smoke tunnels, changing the rules for tackling, blocking and hitting. I wish they could have all the cameras for a football game in place, with all the cameramen, but with no commentators, no sideline reporters. Just unfiltered video streaming.<br /><br />I'd take up hunting with you, Monash, but I think I live in a state where squirrels' lives are more valued than people's lives.JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-72704985416368521232014-09-19T16:25:32.103-05:002014-09-19T16:25:32.103-05:00Your comment might warrant a post of its own in th...Your comment might warrant a post of its own in the future (for one, I'd hate to see you victimized such that you start killing things for fun). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-52479217063772592312014-09-18T17:33:43.831-05:002014-09-18T17:33:43.831-05:00Tullius, you & I have discussed such things ad...Tullius, you & I have discussed such things ad nauseum, and you know that I've little to say outside of four-letter words screamed at a fever pitch...but I'll share some autobiography nonetheless. <br /><br />I used to be quite the political hound...Always in the news, always reading political magazines, always UP ON THE LATEST. As of five or six years ago, no more. I couldn't take it. Or, I should say, my blood pressure just couldn't take it. I'd read some nonsense in the morning over coffee, and simply couldn't get it out of my mind for the rest of the day. The Obama election sealed the deal for me...I just couldn't handle it anymore. If it wasn't the lib-lefties castigating the entire spectrum to the right of Upton Sinclair, it was righties tripping over themselves to "prove" that they weren't racists and...Well, I was sickened. And remain so. I got out of the kitchen, so to speak. <br /><br />But I left the kitchen and swore that I'd remain on my couch, in front of a good sports game. And now I'm finding no respite from the politicization of everything, including my beloved football. Peter King of SI began his Monday Morning QB column lamenting the current "crisis," more or less telling people that if they decided to never watch football again, he wouldn't blame them...<br /><br />Au contraire, Mr. King. It is not the players...it is not The League...it is not the sport...no, Mr. King, it is YOU and YOUR LIKE which makes me never want to watch sports again. It's not about the game, no not about A GAME at all. It's a platform for you, the reporter-not-taken-seriously-because-you-cover-a-game-and-not-REAL-life-matters-like-war-and-politics-and-global-issues, to demonstrate your leftwing street cred for all to see, for all to hear...And if it's not Mr. King, it's Bob Costas, the oh-my-God-conscience-of-sports-reporters, calling on Dan Snyder to rename his team in virtue of the "obviousness" that "Redskin is a slur" (which, apparently, was not any sort of problem before 2013, mind you). <br /><br />I am tired of this, man. So very very tired of it. The last place I ever want there to be politics is in sports. Sports are entertainment, sports are escapist...and yet these PC-enslaved morons won't even leave IT alone, the most sacrosanct of domains outside of Church itself. <br /><br />The fact is, I'm close to being done. Officially. Forever. <br /><br />If things don't change soon, I'm becoming a hunter and killing stuff for fun...Monashnoreply@blogger.com