Was It a Game Or A Beauty Pageant?

This past week Alabama's Crimson Tide rolled the Notre Dame Fighting Irish into a ball of crush shamrocks and sprinkled them across the football field taking the BCS National Championship. Those of you lucky enough to watch the offensive display of A. J. McCarron and his team probably found it a little boring after a while as did the ESPN announcer Brent Musburger as he made comment of one of the camera pans as it made a hasty halt on a screenshot of A.J. McCarrons mother and his girlfriend Katherine Webb, Miss Alabama 2012.

Musburger, who has the natural affinity to open his mouth and spew illogical observations to the viewing masses once again spoke without thinking and this was only in the first quarter of the football game while Alabama was leading 14-0.

Musburgers' video quote.

ESPN took this and ran with it like Alabama was running against Notre Dame. While live Twitter feeds were being made on the game, this was the shot that sent Katherine's Twitter account into the outer reaches of space. Prior to the game her account was around 550 followers. By the end of the game her followers were over 100,000. It was clear that ESPN had more than just a game on their hands as the cameras continually were hovering in Katherine Webb's area. What else could they do to keep the viewers entertained? The BCS Championship was a total blowout and with the prospect of millions of people turning the channel was something ESPN didn't want to happen. Thus, the game turned into the Katherine Webb show.  It was't the fact that Musburger called Katherine a "beautiful woman" that ires me to write this story. It was his comment that followed that could possibly send a message to young boys about the connection of being a star quarterback will get you the beautiful gal. I know it was Musburgers attempt at making sports humor but it was like some of his other on air quotes over the past 40 years he's been announcing. The next day an ESPN spokesman  posted an apology over Musburgers comment.

I've always thought that announcers were a waste of time and their color commentary and background stories were unnecessary. If you really want to be involved in the game, have a live audio feed from the field in which players and coaches are making decisions. As of now this type of involvement is limited, so the announcers can fill in the gaps with any nonsense they feel is applicable to the moment. When people go to games to cheer for their favorite team do they rely on a television announcer to tell them what has just happened? Maybe I don't watch enough sporting events on television to understand the significance of the announcer? But it could be the reason why I don't watch sporting events. Why listen to someone state the obvious. That's why I would rather read about it later in the newspaper to keep the sometimes biased and absurd observations to a minimum.

To end this story, I'll agree with Brent Musburger that Katherine Webb is a beautiful woman....so, does this make me eligible to be an ESPN announcer?

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE

To begin with, I want to say that I support the rights of legal firearm owners and support the 2nd amendment of the constitution so the following bit of written nonsense is just what you want to make of it.

Facebook, the social media where most anyone can voice an opinion, photo or just play some online game against others has been booming over the years. Friends can post all kinds of odd and fascinating material. From a simple birthday wish to writing scathing editorials on government waste, people have found that others may feel the same way as they do and have fellowship and comparable thoughts on certain subjects. One of the hottest subjects the past month has been gun control. Most comments come from those that have served in the military or are presently serving and some come from many gun owners that have used their legal right to have firearms. One of the most widely used photos of propaganda has been the "clip and magazine" photo. Among others that have surfaced over the past few months this one struck me in a funny way so I decided to throw a curve ball at this one and give my own rendition of this classic testosterone filled effigy.

Here is the original post:

Here is the post I created for those that don't own guns but work in an office

surrounded by intelligent single-minded people obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit:

Like I said, make what you want of this but if you think on it long enough you might figure out that the pulp binders are the ones in charge of your gun rights and the gun owners are just the squeaky wheel on the cart getting ready to be greased.