Okay, let’s take a ride in the way back machine. One week ago, Colorado v. Colorado State. It’s the fourth quarter, and underdog Colorado State has the NCAA’s greatest show on turf on the ropes. Deion is scared he’s about to get exposed. But he doesn’t.

Colorado State did what sports psychologists get paid millions of dollars to teach players, teams, coaches and owners not to do. DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE VICTORY UNTIL THE CLOCK HAS THREE ZEROS.

When Zack crossed the goal line and the head coach breaks character, grabs pom poms he could have easily mistaken as a Colorado State cheerleader. Up until that point, his team was Bradley Cooper in the Sniper. Handling their business one play/shot at a time.

Dave Duerson’s Death
posted: February 27 , 2011, 11: 41 am


I have absolutely no idea what the results of the post-mortem testing on Dave Duerson’s brain will tell us about what caused him to kill himself.
What I do know is that when Dave Durerson decided to blame the inherent hazards of football for his life’s problems, he also decided to become the poster boy for chronic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE), post concussion syndrome (PCS).
Will we ever know if Duerson’s suicide was caused by CTE-PCS? Probably not. But what his death will do is fuel the debate about whether or not professional football is too violent. It’s a rhetorical question. Of course professional football is too violent.
But here’s the deal. More people watched Super Bowl XVL then any other television event in the history of TV. Football is not going anywhere. Just the opposite. Currently they’re trying get players to agree to adding two more concussion filled games to the schedule.
Now that we agree football is here to stay, people far smarted then me are going to have to sort out what the long-term effects of CTE-PCS are and the expected quality of life for those diagnosed.
Athletes aren’t conditioned to think long term. They know they have a compressed period of time to pursue their dream. They often develop mental tricks to avoid thinking about the dangers that exist in the games they play.
Just like we know NASCAR is dangerous. But the reality is that if your going to be a NASCAR driver then you’re going to drive fast. Last I checked they’re still driving fast, even with restrictor plates. And, occasionally a driver dies.

If you play professional football you’re going to get hit. We can do everything to protect players: no contact to the QB’s head, no hits on a defenseless receiver. But there are only a handful of those types of hits a game. What are we going to do about the other 90 plays?
How about goal-line and short yardage? Because that’s where the real violence takes place. Do Offensive and Defensive Linemen deserve less protection? Do running backs have a magic shield I don’t know about?
The truth is the only way to protect players from the violence of football is to ban football.
I don’t think Dave Duerson would want football banned. I hope he doesn’t become part of a slogan for concussion awareness. I think that would be tragic because he was more than that. He was an incredible football player that in his death reminded all of us that professional athletes are human and that they often have their most difficult times once the cheering has stopped.

Henry Louis Mencken an American journalist that died in 1956 wrote the quote above.

There’s a desperate truth in this quote. A sense of powerless and inability to decipher through the noise so the only thing left to do, is to slit everyone’s throat. I don’t think H.L. was really suggesting we actually unsheathed our sword and get busy. I think he’s illustrating the frustration that “normal” people can feel.

We are currently living in a political climate were the political discourse has reached a Hatfield v. McCoy, Biggie v. Tupoc level. A normal person could feel the need to grab that sword after listening to weeks of Anderson Cooper (CNN), Sean Hannerty (FOX), Laura Ingram (FOX), Don Lemon (CNN) and Tucker Carlson (FOX) – they’re all cable news talking heads.

There’s a line of demarcation for the D’s (democrats) and the R’s (republicans).  If you are a Dem then the Fox news crew are the Sharks and if Republican the CNN group are the Jets. Tucker Carson has pimped on CNN and Fox. If you have never seen the Jon Stewart’s ambush of Tucker when he was on CNN, here it is.