Saturday, March 22, 2014

The World's Best Job And Other Stuff

jaime_maggio

There are jobs and then there are jobs. As an illustration I present Jaime Maggio. She's a sideline reporter for TBS an TNT. In case you don't know her qualifications it doesn't matter. All you have to do is look at her picture. It's Jaime's job to corral a coach at the end of the first half of a basketball game and ask him the probing questions: "Coach, what can you do to stop your opponents offense"? "How do you feel going into the locker room"? "What can you do next half to win"? Why isn't your best player scoring baskets? "Thanks coach".
What a gig for any and all hot looking girls. My daughter was pretty snazzy looking when she got out of college. I wonder why she didn't become a sideline reporter making gazillions instead of a seemingly worthless elementary school teacher forming young minds.

Have you ever watched a West Virginia University football or basketball game? Their basketball team didn't make the NCAA's this year but they were invited to the National Invitational Tournament(NIT). A big fan of their coach, Bob Huggins, I am not. He's always appeared to be rather thuggish. Oh, hell, he's a thug. Last November I was playing a round of golf with a radio and television announcer for Big Twelve Conference. I mentioned that when he was finished introducing the West Virginia team I'd give him a hundred dollar bill if he announced the WV coach as, "that fat pig, Bob Huggins". He lost out on some easy cash.

Speaking of West Virginia, have you ever seen their team mascot? He wears a "mountaineer" uniform; leather pants and shirt with a coonskin cap. He also carries-- GASP--,  a musket. In football, whenever a touchdown is scored he fires that bad boy into the air. The same for basketball when they win a game.
Why is it some do-gooder hasn't brought the wrath of liberalism down on the school for promoting guns---in a university, no less? I should start an anti-musket movement and see how it plays out. What's worse, having a mascot named an Indian or having a gun fired in the air? Not only that but he carries the gun in his hand the entire game. This is almost despicable.

My son and I attended the Iowa-Tennessee NCAA game on Wednesday. The Hawkeyes lost. What else is new? This is what I took away from the game. I thought the Michigan fight song was the absolute worst in the history of college sports. It has been replaced by Tennessee's, Rocky Top.
Trust me on this one. It'll send you to the booby hatch and, according to sources, the band tries to play it fifty times during an athletic contest. It's horrid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPOTUJZO2M

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