Tag: football

Smoke and mirrors

Yesterday as I was watching Mississippi State play Arizona in football, Tate Reeves ads slamming Brandon Presley about teenage gender identity medicine came on during nearly every commercial break. It got old after the 15th one. I live in Mississippi where we are solidly in the bottom tier in almost every meaningful socioeconomic metric amongst the rest of the states and even below a … Read More Smoke and mirrors

Why Do I Dislike Tom Brady?

Let me count the ways… (from my Facebook this week) Tom Brady is Satan. Tom Brady vacations in Bangkok. Tom Brady uses orphan kids as landscape features in his garden. Tom Brady likes Trump. Tom Brady went out in public dressed like this :

A mighty pleasing view

It was cool on the back porch last night as we watched the most important football contest of the year. No matter how disappointing our season was, that game was a soothing salve for my sports soul.

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Football, coffee, and racism

So… I was just hanging out by the coffee pot talking about how much we are looking forward to basketball season to distract us from the misery that football season has delivered this year. As I was making a joke about how poorly the team from Oxford is also performing this year, a new participant sidled into the conversation. He broke the ice with