FIREBRAND - Agitator
un·known quan·ti·ty
noun
- a person or thing whose nature, value, or significance cannot be determined or is not yet known.
donttread (04-15-2019)
Dr. Who (04-21-2019)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
donttread (04-21-2019)
Dr. Who (04-21-2019)
I think stranger danger is a factor for little kids simply being told to "come home when the street lights come home" . I thinks parents, understandably don't want them out of sight. I was simply told to never go in Mr. _____'s house without my parents and had no idea why. But in that, unspoken way parents have of communicating which rules are the most important, it got through and I never went there alone. The nice lady up the road however had cookies and no such rule!
The salaries are whatever the market will support I suppose. So I don’t begrudge athletes, owners, players, announcers, getting all they can from TV deals, from sponsors, from advertisers….
What I do begrudge is the bald faced lies that professional sports are a necessary thing in cities. They are told by owners, by leagues, and most importantly by the politicians. Football is the worst. These cavernous buildings sit idle most of the time. The costs are exorbitant. The impact on the community is minimal. Did Los Angeles fall off the map when it didn’t have an NFL franchise for about a decade? No. Somehow, Las Vegas survived for nearly a century without one. If the Bears packed up and moved to Calgary…would Chicago fall off the map? No.
The areas around the stadiums are largely just as run down in Houston as they have always been. There are some new developments but there are much more buildings that look like they should be condemned. When Houston lost the Oilers, I lived there. People just found other things to do on Sundays. Actually, from a football fan’s perspective, it was much better because there was no black-out of competing games as their used to be in the local market—meaning that if the Oilers were playing, no other NFL game was sent over-the-air to your viewing area. So you always got 2 games at noon and 2 games at 3PM. What was really maddening was when the Oilers had a west coast game and it would kick off at 3PM local time, you’d be watching the end of the Noon game and if it went past 3, the coverage would stop. Sometimes the screen would go black. Then you’d have to wait for John Criqui to tell you the outcome of the game you just watched while the Oilers were field dressed by whomever they were playing.