REMEMBER WHEN?

There was a day when any organized professional sport in this country required that its players conduct themselves in a manner which would reflect favorably on the team.  You didn't get busted for drugs, you didn't beat up your girlfriend... hell, you'd get fired for getting a DUI or even a speeding ticket!  These days, I don't think you could get fired for throwing a game in order to win some sports book money, so you have to really wonder how many games ARE fixed.

Roger Goodell has made it clear that  American patriotism is not one of the requirements for being on an NFL team.  He couldn't care less about how many times a player gets arrested on a rape charge as long as he beings money to the bottom line.  We used to look up at sports players; now we look down on them because they are on their knees during our National Anthem.  As far as I am concerned, any network that shows an NFL game and any "fan" who attends one or watches it on TV is just as as guilty as the player who disrespects our country.  If they dislike America all that much, why don't they just take their whole damned league to far western California where they will be much more welcomed?

Speaking of way back when, remember the good old days when everybody believed in our country, when we all supported our president even if we didn't vote for him, when no law told you who you had to go to the bathroom with, when it was legal to shoot a hungry bear that was trying to break down your door, when you didn't have to change your clocks twice a year in order to please some jackass in Washington, or when a youngster could sell a glass of lemonade without a business license?  Well, you'll certainly enjoy Heritage Day at the Park, an annual event at McArthur- Burney Falls Park that's free to the public on Sunday, October the 8th.  No politicians are scheduled to be there, so you won't need to bring your guns.

Anthony Wiener, the pervert who just happened to have many of the nation's top secrets on the laptop he shared with Huma Abedin, just got sentenced to 21 months in jail.  Oh... and he has to give up his I-Phone. Will SOMEONE please let me off this planet?  I remember the days when the bastard would have been sentenced to life in Des Moines. 

And, getting back to the opening of this post... Alejandro Villanueva is the Pittsburgh player who had the good old American courage to defy the rest of his team members who hid out in the locker room during the rendition of the National Anthem last Sunday.  Villanueva is a West Point graduate who served his country with honor and dignity, and who stood by his country in the face of adversity.  Team Coach Mike Tomlin, however, is madder than hell that Villanueva put his American patriotism before his team.  And that tells me everything I needed to know about the NFL.  Piss on them;  I'm not planning to watch the Super Bowel. 

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." ~ Oscar Wilde