Today I have no one topic of interest so I will just glance over things as I see them.
But first today I read some sad News, Miriam Makeba aka Mama Afrika died of a heart attack last night after giving a concert in Italy. Makeba was 76 years old. I best remember her for her grand entrance into the US. When she first arrived into the US she was leaving the plane without a top on which was not unusual for her, being from Africa, but you can imagine the reaction that it got back in the 60's. Miriam was a South African folk singer who had been exiled during apartheid. Makeba had a captivating voice and a commanding presence. She will be missed.
Now onto sports, Roger Goddell gets the second ever awarded BAN award. this man is destroying football and turning it into a sport that his mother would have allowed him to play when he was young. If anyone saw the Steelers, Redskins game last Monday you saw the play where Woodley tackled Campbell by slinging him to the ground instead of driving him into the ground with his body weight. As the ref was right over the play and saw no reason to through a flag for unnecessary roughness, the league has once again stepped in and fined another player for playing football. This is getting out of hand, pretty soon you may as well take the pads off and issue flags and call it the NFFL. Football has never been deemed a gentleman's sport. The saddest thing is; now high school and college QB's get hit harder than professional QB's. What next change the rules of pop warner so that when you get to the big time you already know how to hit like a pussy. They say this is to protect the players but honestly how many players get hurt from hits. How many QB's have ever been carted off the field with career ending injuries? The truth of the matter is more players have been put out of the NFL because of the sorry ass turf than from contact. Goddell needs to go back to where ever he came from and leave the game of football alone.
It amazes me that during a time when Mixed Martial Arts is becoming a national past time we have to tone down football where the players are covered in about a thousand dollars worth of padding. It is sickening. The end result is this, Goddell will eventually bastardize the game so much that the fans will stop attending the over priced venues and find something else to waste there money on. Goddell use your head, if it ain't broke leave it the fuck alone.
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But first today I read some sad News, Miriam Makeba aka Mama Afrika died of a heart attack last night after giving a concert in Italy. Makeba was 76 years old. I best remember her for her grand entrance into the US. When she first arrived into the US she was leaving the plane without a top on which was not unusual for her, being from Africa, but you can imagine the reaction that it got back in the 60's. Miriam was a South African folk singer who had been exiled during apartheid. Makeba had a captivating voice and a commanding presence. She will be missed.
Now onto sports, Roger Goddell gets the second ever awarded BAN award. this man is destroying football and turning it into a sport that his mother would have allowed him to play when he was young. If anyone saw the Steelers, Redskins game last Monday you saw the play where Woodley tackled Campbell by slinging him to the ground instead of driving him into the ground with his body weight. As the ref was right over the play and saw no reason to through a flag for unnecessary roughness, the league has once again stepped in and fined another player for playing football. This is getting out of hand, pretty soon you may as well take the pads off and issue flags and call it the NFFL. Football has never been deemed a gentleman's sport. The saddest thing is; now high school and college QB's get hit harder than professional QB's. What next change the rules of pop warner so that when you get to the big time you already know how to hit like a pussy. They say this is to protect the players but honestly how many players get hurt from hits. How many QB's have ever been carted off the field with career ending injuries? The truth of the matter is more players have been put out of the NFL because of the sorry ass turf than from contact. Goddell needs to go back to where ever he came from and leave the game of football alone.
It amazes me that during a time when Mixed Martial Arts is becoming a national past time we have to tone down football where the players are covered in about a thousand dollars worth of padding. It is sickening. The end result is this, Goddell will eventually bastardize the game so much that the fans will stop attending the over priced venues and find something else to waste there money on. Goddell use your head, if it ain't broke leave it the fuck alone.
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