Random Observations

What’s going on my people’s? I know that I should do a subject-specific post but that will come eventually. The college football review will be tomorrow. However, there are still some observations that I’ve had since Sunday. Here they are:

Music to listen to: With Rainy Eyes by Emancipator



First, excellent band name. Second, this song came up on my Pandora and I bookmarked it immediately. Love the chill songs.

-I’m going to hit on it a little more tomorrow, but Bobby Bowden created this situation for himself. His constant ambiguity with when he’s going to leave Florida State has created an environment where people outside of himself have to potentially make the decision for him. I know that he built the program, is a legend, yada, yada, yada. College football, especially at places like Florida State is a business and winning is a necessity. FSU hasn’t done that in the past five years by their standards.

The biggest problem is that no one wants to be the bad guy. No one in the FSU administration wants to fire Bowden or even force him out, fearing the wrath of negative publicity. Furthermore, everyone is connected to Bowden. The athletic director used to play for him for goodness sake.

Bowden isn’t going to leave because coaching, outside of his spirituality and family, are the most important things to him. The guy doesn’t have hobbies or even a business to occupy his time when he retires. Furthermore, I think that he doesn’t want to leave the baby that he’s created. He fears that if he leaves the program, things aren’t going to operate properly or even function at all.

It’s similar to when someone has a startup business, lets just say it’s making clay pots. You become so good at making these clay pots that you are regarded as one of the best pot makers ever. However, the past few years haven’t been kind to you and your pot sales have decreased greatly. Your executive board suggests that you step down from your position as president and retire. You make the amendment to hire a vice president who will eventually take over the business in a few years but you fear that the pots will become terrible when you leave. You think that no one will know what clay to buy, how to shape the pots, what to price them at, what colors to paint them, etc.

However, you as the pot maker, and Bowden as a head coach for that matter, have to realize that football will go on, just like pots will be made. The world will not stop when you step down.

I guess I said tonight what I was going to say tomorrow.

-The most insulting thing from the Titans and Jacksonville game on Sunday were the two idiot Tennessee fans who had the nerve to wear paper bags over their heads and mark them with 0-4, like that’s a bad thing.

Going 0-4 isn’t bad. Being a Vanderbilt football fan and witnessing 2-win seasons, that’s bad. Being a New York Giants fan and living through the Ray Handley-era, that’s bad. For Jets fans, Rich Kotite and that one-win season, I was there, that was bad. Being a Cleveland Browns fan, that’s just depressing. Supporting the Buffalo Bills, that’s a downer for your day. Worshiping the Chicago Cubs, that’s rough. Being a Tampa Bucs fan in the late 80’s and early 90’s, that’s painful. Supporting the Los Angeles Clippers, that’s not fun. Supporting the Pittsburgh Pirates, I can go on…

Seeing your team start the season 0-4, when that same team has been to a Super Bowl and has been one of the decently consistent teams of this past decade, IS NOT BAD!!!

Sure the Titans will probably only win five games this season, maybe six. That’s not a good season but not enough to break out the brown paper bags.

I have a love/hate relationship with fans, because as positively passionate as they can be and contribute to the game, they can have a lack of prospective and be honestly stupid as well. I’ve been on both sides and those fans are the latter.

-Actually surprised that Rio won the Olympics bid. I knew that Chicago didn’t have a chance. I’m assuming that most of you reading this is an American, but we have to be honest that the world is beyond our borders. I didn’t think that Chicago had everything in place. I honestly thought that Madrid was the leader, with Tokyo a close second.

And not to get political, but I don’t understand why people were mad at President Obama petitioning for the Olympics to come to Chicago. Every other leader of the cities in the running were there. Its part of the process. Oprah being there was a little much but heck, if Pele can make a cameo, she can do the same as well.

-It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who follows the Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

-Kate Beckinsale may not be the sexiest woman alive, but she’s pretty darn close.

-Excellent game between Detroit and Minnesota tonight, but the Twins are going to struggle in that series against the Yankees.

My World Series prediction is New York vs. St. Louis, fyi.

-Love that Braylon Edwards wants to pick fights with LeBron James. Only in Cleveland.

-The Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian marriage is just wrong. I actually like both parties. Lamar represents the NYC and I’m always contended that Khloe is very attractive, its just when you compare her to Kourtney and Kim, she looks less attractive. However, you place Khole alone, she’s not bad.

The problem is that both of them have always been in the shadows of their contemporaries and this is their moment to shine. Funny how the marriage happens at the same time the Lakers open training camp with Kobe Bryant, arguably the best player in the league and attention-magnet Ron Artest, while the other one has a pregnant sister getting magazine covers and another sister who is a tabloid star.

It’s a perfect storm and when the divorce happens after the Lakers repeat their NBA Championship in June 2010, it will be a glorious moment.

But remember, I’m the same guy who said that Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony wouldn’t last six months and they’re pushing several years now and have kids, so who knows.

Maybe I should stick with writing about sports and 80’s sitcoms and not gossip.

-OK, that’s all for now. Good night.