“Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.” -- Frank Zappa
(Hat-tip to my anonymous friend for pointing out the perfect quote to sum up a weekend of football I finally got to watch.)
He died over 20 years ago, and, yet, gives the perfect quote for American society today.
And, if this weekend was any indication, it's a perfect analogue for our football.
I saw SO MANY STUPID PLAYS this weekend and so many teams and players who belie any degree of intelligence or "higher education" that I really have to wonder how much of the helmet-hit-ladened dementia has already filtered into these guys.
Take one game I lost money on this week: LSU, getting 6 1/2 at home against Alabama.
Tie game, they'd just recovered a fumble inside the Alabama 10, about one minute to play.
First play, skirmish afterward, LSU lineman gets a STUPID unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, back to about the 20, down counts because it's dead-ball, settle for a field goal.
Then the kickoff, about 45 seconds left, no time outs for Bama... OUT OF BOUNDS. First down to Bama at the 35. They drive (for the only time in second-half regulation) for a field goal.
LSU wins the toss and does the ONLY THING they could lose the spread on, elects to go on defense, gives up an easy TD, and doesn't move the ball off the 25 and loses 20-13, as if pre-planned.
Here's another: Utah, getting 10 at home for Oregon.
7-0 Utah, Utah wide receiver gets pass, breaks free, scores touchdown...
Except he not only drops the ball at the 1, it stays in bounds and Oregon picks it up and goes the ONE HUNDRED YARDS for the TD themselves!
Utah falls apart in the fourth quarter.
How about that last fumble in the Auburn game? How does that happen with a guy with any real intelligence whatsoever? (actually won that one)
Marginal push-off, but a push-off nonetheless, costs the Saints.
The Bears REALLY still suck.
I mean, this is what football has devolved to? No wonder we need to get rid of it!
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