The National Football League (or as I call it, the National FELON League) recently announced they were going to come down hard on players who commit domestic violence....something like a 6 game (?) suspension, likely to cost a player hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ouch!
So what does San Francisco 49er Ray McDonald go and do? Commit domestic violence (allegedly). DUH!
So here's my question: Why do NFL owners mollycoddle their errant players who commit felonies? Yeah, I know, "They are valuable assets". Bull shit! They're $%^& football players. That's it. Most don't have the talent to do much more than be a rag guy at a car wash if they lose their football gig.
Do you know how many good....no, GREAT players there are who would LOVE to play in the NFL? I say, if these thugs playing now can't act like decent human beings, then kick 'em to the curb and give a guy who has maybe a molecule or so less talent a chance.
I watch great players every weekend play college football, and I know, and THEY know, most will never make it to the NFL. I say we put them on the ready reserve list, and put the overpaid thugs playing now on notice.
S
Note to the NFL: Listen up....I have a suggestion that will revolutionize all future Super Bowls: Scheduled bathroom time-outs. When is a fan supposed to pee during a Super Bowl? You can't miss any of the game, and you don't want to miss any of the commercials, so when? My eyeballs were floating by halftime.
I decided Beyonce was going to be the sacrificial segment of the evening. The hard part was holding it until halftime. They should schedule one first half and one second half time out for guys to pee. Just 60 seconds of blank screen so there's nothing to miss.
Women seem to be able to hold it forever on Super Bowl Sunday, even though on a road trip they need to stop every 12 miles. (I think they just store up all their self-control for the Super Bowl.)
The game itself was great! It's a shame all Super Bowl's can't be this entertaining. When a game goes down to the last seconds for the winner to be determined, THAT'S a good game! The ebb and flow, the momentum gained and lost....it was suspenseful in a very good way.
I liked the way both coaches played not to lose, but to WIN. Baltimore's fake punt in the first half, SF's going for the 2-point conversion at the end....that's how you play to win! Kudos to the Harbaugh brothers and both teams.
Even the halftime show was memorable. To me halftime is usually the time to make room for more beverage and prepare more food for the second half. I actually watched (most) of this one. While I'm not a big Beyonce (or pop music) fan, I must say she, and the extravaganza itself, were spectacular.
Awwwww.....
The big disappointment: The commercials. As always they were WAY too over-hyped. A couple were good....the Bud Clydesdale colt....the Doritos goat. I thought the RAM pickup "Farmer" spot was a nice bookend to last year's Clint Eastwood "Halftime in America". Hyundai had some that brought a smile to my face, but the rest were uneventful, if not outright stinkers. What was GoDaddy thinking? They just pissed away $8 million dollars. Blech! Gag! Hurl!
Oh, and the 34 minute power outage? It didn't bother me at all. I used the time wisely....I went to the bathroom. ;)
S
