RANDOM THOUGHTS:
The following were on my mind between Thursday, October 13th and Monday, October 27th:
- Oh, "Community"! Just when I think you can't get any more awesomer, you manage to pull of an episode as fantastic as Thursday's "Remedial Chaos Theory," an episode that was not only hilarious but was so well-crafted by the writers that it showed just how much impact each person has without their presence in the study group in an organic and understandable way (while also blowing your mind in "Fringe" level proportions). The fact that you are on the bubble when it comes to a fourth season renewal while "Two and a Half Men" gets at least 15 million viewers weekly just makes me wanna cry for our country's taste in quality.
- If you're leading in a really close professional football game (<3 pts.) with less than two minutes to play & your number of timeouts at less than two, and your opponents' offense happens to be mere yards away from scoring a touchdown, wouldn't the best thing to do would be to let them score? After all, if your team's defense is able to stop the runner or receiver with the ball from scoring, all you're allowing is for opponent to basically run down the clock and attempt a potential game winning field goal from a distance that most college and pro kickers these days find make-able, right? Seems to me that allowing the TD would be the best option at that point.
- Without a doubt, the biggest bonehead play that I saw occur during yesterday's NFL games came late in the Indianapolis-Cincinnati game when Colts WR Pierre Garcon gave away the football to Bengals' Carlos Dunlap, who ended up scoring the touchdown that put the game away. Not only was there plenty of time on the clock for Garcon (2:30) to keep the ball in his possession, but he was surrounded by Bengals players and his team also had the two minute warning to work with. I guess that's just another testament to how desperate this team is to win that their second best wide receiver would think that a catch with less than two and a half minutes to play counts as a time to make the play even bigger.
- Peter King should just admit to his Sports Illustrated that he wants to switch roles from their top NFL writer to a Red Sox beat reporter. Lord knows that he has more enjoyment talking about it in his MMQB columns than his actual football stuff.
- I know that I'm pretty late when it comes to this controversy, but since I've kind of forgotten to talk about it in the last few RTs, I figure that I might as well get it out of the way right now: the issue regarding Jeff Pearlman's "Walter Payton" book. Quite frankly, I'm on the Pearlman side of this, and think that the majority of people who complained about the issue behaved in an overreactive and melodramatic manner (most of whom probably never even read the book to begin with). For starters, as Pearlman himself mentioned (including this response to his critics via Deadspin), the book is mostly dedicated to nothing but praises and goodwill in regards to Sweetness from the words of a big fan of Sweetness. He also interviewed nearly 700 people to write this book, so it seems to be very thorough and very accurate, and I do not believe what others have said about him that he was doing this for the money, but as a tribute to a man that he was a big fan of (and still is). Finally, as great as a football player, family man, and humanitarian was, Chicago sports fans like myself simply cannot treat him as Saint Walter, a man that was so great that he cannot be criticized or viewed in a negative light whatsoever. The man had his imperfections and his demons, so to criticize someone for publishing them all would give only part of the real story of his whole life, like writing a detailed biography about Thomas Jefferson and not discussing Sally Hemming or writing about the true story of Columbus' voyage to the Americas without talking about the harm his crew had to the local Native Americans (F.Y.I. Not saying that these three are all necessarily equal, just trying to make a point of the significance of how not including the bad parts of Payton's life is a bad thing).
Besides, many Chicago sports fan knew about his indiscretions and infidelities anyway, so why should some guy publishing a book with those things on paper be such a bad thing?
- Watching the Jim Harbaugh-Jim Schwartz scuffle, followed by Sean Payton getting injured on the sidelines and then having to coach the rest of the game made me realize something: watching coaches get involved during the game outside of calling the plays makes watching football inherently better.
- If you are working three jobs, in a bad situation financially, but don't think that Wall Street is to blame at all...should you, even for a little bit? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservatives-launch-we-are-the-53-percent-to-criticize-99-percenters/2011/10/10/gIQA70omaL_blog.html)
More random thoughts to come on Thursday. In the meantime, here's some music from the Black Keys to get you in the mood for the rest of your workweek:
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you just have any suggestions or tips for my next blog entry, e-mail me at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mails are greatly appreciated.
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