Perception
It’s amazing how perception rarely changes.
Some things you take for granted. You feel secure in your existence knowing that some things just -are- and always will be. Things like safety in family or gravity or earth’s sustained orbit… You take for granted that these won’t change – but some other things you count on to be true as well and if they aren’t truth you don’t know what to think. The world is topsy-turvy.
You take for granted that
…the Arizona Cardinals will be lousy…
…that the Bengals won’t spend money…
…that Raider fans will attend games dressed as extras from Mad Max 4…
…that hockey will never be more popular than it was in ’94 when the Rangers were good…
…that baseball will never be good in Texas, so long as the Rangers have no pitchers…
…that all college football players in the state of Florida earned a 200 SAT score…
…that commercialism sucked the life out of the Olympics a long time ago…
…that pro wrestling is fixed…
…that Detroit will claim itself Hockeytown regardless of their playoff finish…
…that the UPN tv schedule will stink beyond words…
When these things we hold near and dear as fact turn up fiction, our stomachs turn, hair falls out and normal people become quivering shells of themselves, twitching like a paparazzi seeing one Olsen twin on one street corner, the other Olsen on another, and only one TRO to violate.
So please, I beg of you…
Arizona, continue to find ways to blow your potential.
Bengals – continue your miserly, shortsighted ways.
Black and white fans? Continue your asinine behavior.
NHL? Just stop, okay? Eliminate a line…whatever. If you don’t start calling penalties none of that crap matters.
Texas? Move to Vegas. Both are hot, one is fun. (It ain’t Arlington)
Florida? They’re called ‘standards’. Get some.
IOC – don’t be greedy, bought-off hypocrites.
WWE – don’t change a thing. I’m already ignoring you as it is. Statis quo, baby.
Red Wings fans? Be proud of your heritage, but get that stupid “Hockeytown” off the ice.
and
UPN…poor, futile, UPN. You will -never- get it, will you?
