There’s no accounting for degenerate gamblers. And this no account is never more illustrated than in the days leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. Anything is up for wager and anyone can be compelled to do it.
No, seriously. Anyone.
As the NFL team with the most Superbowl victories meets in Dallas to face off against a team that was in the very first Superbowl 44 years ago, now seems as good of a time as ever to kick back, wipe from your mouth the nacho cheese-flavored cheese substitute and reflect on Superbowl’s of yesteryear.
As troubling as the news was of the alleged behavior exhibited by Texas Christian University head coach Gary Patterson toward both running back Ed Wesley and team physician Dr. Samuel Haraldson last month, the developments since that incident are twice as disheartening.
If there has been one overwhelming theme to this football season so far, it’s that concussions are more prevalent than we had previous thought and do more damage than we ever knew.
Leave it to Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, one of the game’s oldest surviving brethren, to suggest an old solution to this new problem: if the head is constantly in danger, force players to take better care of it by protecting it less. Remove facemasks from helmets.
There really isn’t a better way to pass the time than by ranking things. I’ll rank anything. Condiments? Mustards, onions, pickles, ketchup. Duh. No one with half a brain ranks pickles over mustard. You can’t do it. You just can’t.
So imagine how my mood improved when I ran across Rick Chandler’s college mascot rankings on NBC’s Out of Bounds blog? Bunches. My mood improved bunches, thanks for asking.