And We’re Back!

Sorry to broadcast the blog to your e-mails. Just thought I’d do a one-off to splash cold water on your faces that this blog still exists after a paternal sabbatical and that I’m determined to kinda sorta keep it going.

Two things I wish to vent about are 1) Ryan Lochte, 2) olympic football, and 3) Jerry Jones can suck it because while he may understand, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care.

So without further ado...

1) ALochte to Talk About

Ryan Lochte annoys me. I don’t like that all he wants to do is beat Michael Phelps. I look at Lochte’s ambitious face and see a guy whose motivations I don’t understand. Is he merely envious and that 1 sin out of 7 is what causes him to work so hard? Or is it his need for the status and fame (and everyone’s adoration) Phelps has that makes him so driven? Ugh, I don’t know. It all seems so unnatural. I don’t know the full stories here, but Phelps appears like the real deal/original—even after immediately expressing his lack of desire to do another 400m Individual Medley upon winning and creating a new world record in the event back in 2008.

Two themes I’ve heard lately are: work hard to grow, not to gain and it’s always easier to chase than to be chased. For Phelps, it just seems that “it is what it is” and with Lochte, I can’t shake the feeling that it isn’t.

2) Finally, We’re Actual World Champions!

In the NFL, every year the players on the Super Bowl winning team say something to the effect of “World Champions, baby!” And then every non-NFL loving person says, “They only play in America! What’s the matter with them?!” However, if the talk of American Football in the Olympics is true, then a potential OFL has interesting potential for debate. To begin, I’d like to say that other countries have amateurish, arena-level American football clubs. In Australia, there’s the Gridiron Football League, for instance. So there are "foreigners" playing American football other places. But should there even be American Football in the Olympics? I personally think it won’t fly. These guys need time to heal after the 16+ game season and the Olympics would only tack on more games to increase the probability of injury. What NFL team will allow that? Furthermore, if the NFL won’t participate would it start a new track of professional football player? Could there be more money in it? This is all hypothetical nonsense I haven’t thought through very far, but it is interesting. Either way, the winner could actually say they were World Champs.

3) Cowboys, Inc.

Jerry Jones has recently said in Oxnard, CA at the opening ceremonies of Cowboys training camp (the only one of its kind in the NFL. DUH!) that the Cowboys will beat the Giants this year. Fine. It could happen. What pisses me off is that he seems just short of creating the equivalent of a movie preview for the Cowboys upcoming season. Spoiler Alert: Cowboys will beat Giants. Perhaps. What will definitely happen is that Jonesy will make a lot of money because more than any other team in the NFL the Cowboys look less like a team and more like big business. Do they have lobbyists, I wonder? Now let’s all watch the Eagles become a dynasty.