Cream Always Rises

The NFL has pretty much become an incredible joke to me any more but, despite that, the fact that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are in the Conference Championships proves that the cream does indeed rise to the top.

This league is unwatchable to me. My main problem with it is that there seems to be far too many rule changes each year. This means that there is a fundamental problem with the game now which make it horrible to watch.

I truly also believe that we are going to find out that there are much deeper levels of cheating going on in the NFL than we might think. I suppose some people suspect some truly despicable undertakings with some organized crime involvement, like I do, and it would not surprise me one bit if we hear about it in the years to come.

After all, we just found out that pro Tennis has been compromised in that way. Players have allegedly been paid to throw matches. I haven't heard who has been caught doing this yet but apparently that is going to be revealed soon too.

But with football, I find it hard to believe that a team, oh let's say like the NY Giants, could lose three games early in the year that were so locked down it was almost as if the only way they could lose would be to keep 8 dudes off of the field while on defense instead of the standard 11.

Here is a clue to me that something is wrong. Whenever a defense plays a "prevent defense," I now assume that the defensive coordinator is "on the take." Because the only thing a prevent defense prevents is the team employing it from winning a game. Someone has to actually make that defensive call. I now suspect that any defensive coordinator who puts in any alignment that is "preventive" in nature is getting paid by a mobster somewhere.

Back to rules...a catch is not a catch any more. Now, I hate the Cowboys as much as the average hater of football teams. But I seriously gave up taking the NFL seriously last year in a season-ending game where one of their dudes had a catch that would have given them a chance to score a winning touchdown late in the game. No sense providing any more details about that particular play, just let it suffice to say that when someone catches a ball within the confines of the playing field and it is ruled "not a catch," because of some asinine new rule then either the rule is defective or someone flat out cheated making the ruling.

There are no other reasons.

Yet, despite all of that, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are playing in yet another Championship game, which is one win shy of playing in another Super Bowl for either of the winners.

This means, if people haven't figured it out yet, that in those two players we have been able to watch two of the best quarterbacks in the history of the game.

Now, one would think that more people would be honored to have been football fans and to have been able to witness these historic players, but...NOOOOOOOOOOO....people bitch and moan about seeing them play because they "win too much," or think someone else should "have a chance."

Why? I guess because people hate people who succeed. Its a recurring theme in this country over the past decade or so.

Ultimately that last sentence will launch a new post on this subject of people hating successful people and why they do.

There could be a whole other dissertation about why people succeed and why people fail. But let me just end this with one very crucial headline I read today...

Libraries across Western Pa. offer coloring classes for adults

What? Coloring classes for adults? How about libraries offer READING classes for adults since they have BOOKS in there that people need to READ, not color.

I have a theory as to why this is happening. Libraries are full of very liberal employees who have an agenda that is specifically designed to dumb down Americans so much that they have NO choice but to be further dependent upon a large, centralized government. You know, one which is essentially communist. Because if people read more about why this country was formed and what made it great, no one with any sense would allow our government to get as large and intrusive as it has become.

Don't think that to be the case? Well, although this is anecdotal evidence for sure, last year I had to visit a half dozen libraries in order to attempt to make some business arrangements. At EVERY one of those six libraries there were Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) forms and information at the front desk. Doesn't get much more activist than that since not a single person who isn't a leftist voted for that piece of shit legislation. So...in other words...we have people working in libraries who are, as Stalin would call them, useful idiots for leftist causes. They will then do whatever it takes to make sure that their numbers grow and keeping people as stupid as possible....like offering coloring classes...would certainly be a great way to do it.

Ultimately, though, I have a little bit of faith that more and more people will wake up to this blatant attempt to undermine the greatest country in the history of the world. I have to have that faith to keep sane in an increasingly insane, Twilight Zone-like era, for sure. I have to believe that the cream of our general citizenry will also rise to the top and crush these efforts to fundamentally alter our country and its customs and culture.

I have to have that faith because there is nowhere left to go and I don't want soccer to suddenly appear more watchable and believable than football.

Done