NFL Draft coverage is pretty much overkill and pointless. The draft itself is obviously very important to all the teams, but the hype is ridiculous. You'd think Mark "Dirty" Sanchez was the greatest QB in the history of football based on the ESPN hype machine. The other thing about the draft is this - while it is really popular with fans, the fans themselves tend not to be the most knowledgeable when it comes to college football. Most folks in most NFL cities don't follow college football closely - some exceptions are the ATL, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, and maybe Jacksonville. But even those fans in those cities don't follow all the teams all the time. And there isn't any reason that they should by the way. But, the problem is these fans think they know something about the players being drafted and try to talk intelligently about them - even though most of them never saw a game the particular kid played. Granted, casual fans watch USC, Georgia, TOSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Bama, LSU, Florida, and maybe a few other teams more than twice during a season. So they might have some vague idea how Beanie Wells can high jump defenders or how Matthew Stafford throws the deep out. But they don't know much, if anything, about, say, Josh Freeman for example. And I hear people trying to talk about Josh Freeman like they followed K State closely, which is crap. You didn't and you didn't see Baylor or N. Illinois, or dozens and dozens of other schools. So, quit pretending you know anything about players from about 100 of the 118 or 119 D1 programs, because you don't. And that's OK, the only people who should follow all the teams closely are Pro Scouts, the football media guys, and degenerate gamblers (not unlike myself). I watch at least 12 hours of college football every Saturday and I watch it as closely as possible and even with that being the case, I didn't know a lot about over 50% of the players taken in the draft. And I dare say, I know about 100 or 200 times more about the players in college football than the average NFL fan. I have no idea why people try and pretend to their friends that they know remotely anything about most of these players. They are just spitting back what some Draft Guru has said. So, for all the pretend college football experts out there - please stop it. It's like the idiots who booed Donovan McNabb in 1999. They had no idea. Sorry for the rant, but this is something that has bugged me for like 18 years or something.
It looks like Barack Hussein Obama is very popular with the American people so far. And that isn't too surprising or it shouldn't be anyway. Most of the great masses of morons who follow the guy blindly have no idea what he's doing and that's cool - I have no problem with the masses of morons who pay little to no attention to anything beyond porn, food, sports, celebrity gossip, and their own little world. You can't blame people for that. So, given that a vast majority of people who are into old Barry's "accomplishments" so far, are utterly clueless, I'd take it with a grain of salt. The one definitely positive thing that I do give old Barry credit for is that he makes people optimistic and he's highly likable to the unwashed masses. If John McCain had won, all these people would be so down in the dumps and terrified, it would be a catastrophe. And it's much better to have folks feeling optimistic, rather than pessimistic. Now, of course their optimism is mostly unfounded and their love of old Barry bordering on messianic, but given the alternative, that's not all bad right now. The other thing in this poll that jumps out at me is that old Barry has not managed to bring the people who voted against him into his tent. The opposite has happened actually. It seems instead of uniting the country, he's making the divisiveness worse (and who would have thought that except me?). In fact, old Barry is more polarizing than old W somehow. The folks who don't like him, really despise him for some reason. As I've said before, I have zero personal issues with old Barry. He may be a wonderful guy (although I highly doubt it). It's irrelevant to me. But a lot of folks way out near my side of the political spectrum, they really have issues with Barry on a gut-level. It never made any sense to me to hate anyone I haven't known personally and thus, you know, had a reason to hate. But so many people have spent so much time and energy the last 17 years hating William Jefferson Blythe, or old W, and now Barack Hussien Obama. It's gotta be a sad existence. I met so many people who despised, literally despised, old W over the past 9 and 1/2 years. And it got in their skin I guess. Their whole lives revolved around how old W had wronged them and this intense hatred festered in them and made them miserable to be around. And that is so sad and pitiful and pitiable. Jesus, it's only the president. He's just some guy.
I did see where old Barry is making quite a name for himself with this pig flu thing. I don't know anything about it. But Barry is out telling folks that it is no big deal. He said "Chill" or something. And old Barry probably eats chitlins with the best of them - I bet he's been to his share of pig pickins over the years and probably picked up a little pig loving trim at these events as well. And I wonder if you can get this pig flu from eating bacon, because if you can then I'm in big trouble. In fact, I think I'm getting warmer as I type here. I'm starting to get wooooozzzzyyyy. Please call old Barry and tell him to stop manipulating the pig loving trim long enough to send the CDC over here. HEEELLLPPPP!!!
I was watching the TV over the weekend and this thing came on called The Shamwow. And that guy is a tool - "Are you keeping up with me cameraman?" Ridiculous. And when he claims that one Shamwow will absorb like 10 gallons of chewing tobacco spit in one pass over the spit, I am amazed!!! I am amazed anyone would buy the crap. Except pig loving trim who worship Barack Hussien Obama and claim to have seen every game Jeremy Maclin ever played. Those folks - it makes perfect sense that they'd buy a Shamwow - perfect sense.
PS - I will admit that when I was a kid, I was scared to death by Porky Pig. The reason is that I never could understand why he didn't wear any pants. He wore a bow tie and a coat - but NO PANTS. And I could never find one adult who could explain the reason to me. And I still have no idea. Why wouldn't he wear pants??? And also, where is his member??? It's really disturbing.
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