It’s not the football fans that are out there going after the mosques, not at all. No, that crappola is being handled by NASCAR folks.
Those guys are brtually redneck.
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And while I’m back, let me just say that while I fully still stand by position up there, I’m a but disappointed with myself in that I used so much vitriol in expressing it.
On a normal day that would have simply ticked me off, but yesterday it really seemed to hit a nerve.
(Cnote Chris, I recognize that your NASCAR comment was in jest, so don’t think I’m making this comment specifically at you. It’s an observation.)
I’ve heard a lot of whining from kids here on campus because they canceled our football game vs. Brigham Young this weekend, as well as the “Bulldog Bash” party beforehand.
I’ve heard baseball fans whining that they won’t get to watch their games.
I’ve heard NFL fans pissing and moaning.
However, every NASCAR fan I’ve spoken to believes that cancelling the races are exactly the right thing to do.
Make of that what you will. I’m sure there are plenty of NASCAR fans whining, but they’re whining quietly enough that I haven’t heard them, at least. :shrug:
CnoteChris, thank you for the apology. I know you think football should go on, and guess what, I would have not have a problem with it being played. But the football commissioner decided to cancel the games.
spooje and I were schedule to go to a baseball game on Wednesday, but it was cancelled. I would have gone, cried during the playing of the national anthem, but my heart would not have been at the game. So I understand how you feel about wanting to watch, this thread is just about those who go on and on and on about it.
I understand you wanting to get together with your friends, but you can still do so. And I like what one of the commentators on CNNSI channel said last night and I will paraphrase what she said “get with your friends and play touch football”.
Actually I said something in my last post I would like to take back. “this thread is just about those who go on and on and on about it.” This thread could be used and other poster have used it to rationally debate the subject of why football was cancelled and should it have been.
One comment about the ‘players hearts wouldn’t be into it’ reasoning for cancelling the game. Boo fucking hoo. Everyone I know, everyone I work with, was back to work on Wednesday. Frankly, I knew a bunch of people who worked all day on Tuesday, too.
I work in a computer Disaster Recovery facility, guess what, our technical guys and customer service people have been working around the clock getting our customers systems back online. Think their hearts are into it? We’re in the suburbs of NYC, think they may know a few people who were killed? Damn right they do, but they are up there working their asses off.
When my grandmother died, guess who was working until 3am the night before her wake? Me, that’s who! Why? Because the work needed to get done.
There are people who were IN the WTC when it got hit, who lost a huge percentage of their coworkers, who demanded of their management to get back to work immediately. They basically said “Our work is important, it must be done, we will persevere and do it.”
You want to tell me the logistics wouldn’t work? Fine. The huge gathering of people is too dangerous? Fine. The players don’t feel up to it? Bullshit. You get paid millions, suck it up and put on your show, your country needs you.
We need diversions, something to keep our minds off this tragedy for a couple of hours. Every moment I’m not actively doing something else, I think of the WTC. This cannot go on 24/7. We need these diversions for our sanity, if for nothing else.
I agree completely. Perhaps it is because I was sick as a dog on Tuesday and Wednesday and laid on the couch watching the news for hours, but I really wish there were some escape from all the bad news. Just for a couple of hours. I DO understand why there are no sporting events going on . . . but I will be real curious to see how big a weekend BlockBuster has. I think there are many more out there like me and CNote who just want a break, at least for a little while. No disrespect intended.
I think i was the knucklehead that said this. i think you called me on a good point! i don’t watch “professional” sports and i was actually thinking about the college games and players. i have to agree with you about all the millionaire sportsmen-- get your ass out there, that is your job!
thanks for calling me on this!
(by the way- the Formula One from Monza will go on as schedualed, come on over and we’ll have a beer and watch a race)
The CART race in Germany is also going on as scheduled. Apparently they made that decision while the NFL was still thinking about having its games; otherwise they’d’ve followed the lead of other US-based sports.
They had to wait until today to get Michael Andretti, though; he was still in America and couldn’t fly out to Germany all week, of course.
I’m a reg on another site where I’ve been taking part in a kind of competitive writing. Each contestant writes an installment of a story, submits it, waits for votes and suggestions, then submits part 2, and so on. The prize was to be sent by snail mail.
I was going gung ho on my story, getting good responses and thinking that CD was almost certainly mine. Tuesday evening, to no one’s surprise, the moderator stated that the contest was on hold.
I don’t know if anyone else will want to get back into it. One contestant withdrew entirely, and asked the mod to remove his entries, because he felt his story was inappropriate (it was quite violent). It may never resume; as time goes on, we’ll get farther from the mindsets we had when we began.
That’s what I don’t want to happen. But it probably will. I don’t want to lose the person I was on Monday. I feel like all the energy I was focusing on other things has been recircuited to the WTC incident, and every other part of me is a dead fuse.
I’m sure that analogy is wrong. Is there an engineer in the house?
the CART race in germany was going to go on anyway due to the economics involved (so i have heard). was watching the news last night, heard zanardi lost his legs in a crash. what a fucked up week this has been. pretty damn joyless.
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