Aah,
what a great time of the year it is!
To
augment the joy we derive by straining our back muscles shoveling away a foot
of “global warming,” we get to sit in front of the fireplace and read the
latest Super Bowl hype. And you thought the expense of newsprint was one reason
why everything is shifting toward digital. How can they fill column space with
such drivel?
In
its never-ending urgency to create the news instead of report on it, the media
inflates (no, I won’t go there again) the saga surrounding LeGarrette Blount’s
commentary about the Patriots’ defense not being immortal. It conjures up the notion
of reporters scrambling to satisfy the concept that they even need to be on-site
a week before this overblown affair.
But,
the reporters are just doing what they have to do, and modern-day mainstream America
has such an unquenchable thirst for soap-opera antics.
The
Pats’ running back, who wore out his welcome in Pittsburgh, said the Patriots’
defense is not immortal. I’m neither an anatomist nor a pathologist but human
beings, and thus the grouping of human beings, do not live forever. He stated
the obvious. If that’s all there is to write about, leave the column space for
something important, like some questions and answers about strategy.
Given
the subject matter of Blount’s views on immortality, I can understand why his
gregarious Seattle counterpart Marshawn Lynch lampoons the pregame falderal,
although I wouldn’t condone his methods. What is there to say? Do we really
need to know who Brady’s favorite actor is and what he eats for Christmas
dinner?
I’m
glad I don’t have to cover that junk. If I did, I’d become a gentleman farmer.
