Sports Gospel- Looking for common sense

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Sports Gospel- Looking for common sense

Mark Chalifoux



Sometimes people don’t use common sense. It happens far too often and it seems like it would be easy enough to solve, but some people just don’t get it. Am I missing something? Is it too much to ask for just a little...
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[Shane]

I have about 19 comments to make to this article, and I will do so tomorrow.

I like it, don't get me wrong, but I can throw my Simon Cowell forked tongue out there on this one. Just too tired tonight.

[mark_chalifoux]

Poor shane just never can get enough sleep these days. He should try reading one of Mike's articles...

[Shane]

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

Sports Gospel- Looking for common sense

Mark Chalifoux



Sometimes people don’t use common sense. It happens far too often and it seems like it would be easy enough to solve, but some people just don’t get it. Am I missing something? Is it too much to ask for just a little common sense every now and then?

One word.

MEIK.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

Hopefully that will help clear things up in the future and we won’t have a repeat of the incidents seen this weekend. For starters, there was a fan that ran onto the field during the Eagles-Packers game to spread his late mother’s ashes. He claimed he was fulfilling his mother’s last wish. Brilliant. Hopefully this moron gets what he deserves and lands some good jail time, as the Philly police claimed not to be big supporters of people running on the field during a game and spreading a mysterious powder. The problem is that the idiot doesn’t even seem to think he did something wrong.

My first thought was of the scene in "The Big Lebowski", when they "attempted" to dump the ashes of their friend into the ocean.

Then I was just thankful that Michael Irvin wasn't playing in that game, or he would have been out there snorting up the ashes.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

"I know that the last handful of ashes I had are laying on the field, and will never be taken away,” the moron told a Philly TV station. “She'll always be part of Lincoln Financial Field and of the Eagles," he said.



Really? How will she always be part of the Eagles? Is it because they played on her ashes? That guy is just sick and the fact that it never occurred to him that it may not be a good idea to spread his dead mother on the field during a game just reinforces that. As far as it being his mother’s last wish, that is just a horrible rationalization. I don’t know how old she was, but, believe it or not, there are times when older people just don’t always think straight.

Ronald Reagan is proof of this.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

Case in point- I was at a shopping mall the other day and walked past a pretzel stand. Sitting outside the stand in a wheelchair was a mentally handicapped employee who was responsible for handing out free samples to potential customers. I started thinking about how that job must be a really good thing for him, giving a chance for him to feel more normal and just like everyone else. No sooner had that thought left my mind did an elderly woman walk up to the guy and not only refuse to take any samples, but instead decided to slide some money towards him and walked away.

That bitch was WAY out of line.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

Now, I know her intentions were good, but what the hell? It’s not like he was slumped against a wall with a cup and a “homeless please help God Bless” sign, he was a guy doing a job. He was handing out free pretzel samples, wearing a uniform- it’s not like he was breaking out a delightful rendition of The Simpsons theme song on his saxophone. Something tells me he had the job in an effort to be more normal rather than out of an overwhelming financial need (maybe the fact that his hat was on his head and not in front of him filled with miscellaneous coins tipped me off).



Bottom line, old people don’t always make the best decisions (especially as far as last wishes are concerned, which is why Ted Williams is a Popsicle now) and for him to think that this is what would have made his mother happy is a joke. What if my last wish was for my ashes to be baked into a pie and then thrown in Gary Bettman’s face?

I will follow through with that if you really want it.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

If you drink heavily, do not get behind the wheel of a car. One would think this would be easy to follow, especially if you were a coach at a Division I sports program. Yet, over the weekend two Ohio coaches were charged with drinking and driving.

LOL, I was hoping someone would bring up these two idiots.

Lock 'em up, IMO.

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

All I want is for people to use a little bit of common sense. Well, that, or that Gary Bettman will get hit in the face with a pie.

Again, I would be happy to arrange this.

[Shane]

Originally Posted by mark_chalifoux

Poor shane just never can get enough sleep these days. He should try reading one of Mike's articles...

I read his rambling about TO that he wrote on his trip to Jersey. That was a sleeper for sure.

Honestly though, two jobs, two kids, a radio show with 900,000,000 technical problems, I need to clone myself.

Good news, I think I am narrowing in on the technical problems.