Goodbye

No no, don't go getting too carried away with the celebration. Briliant donkey, the blog or the person behind it isn't going anywhere. "Goodbye" , is simply this week's prompt for sunday Scribblings. This also happens to be Super bowl Sunday as well and the game will kick off in about 3 hours or so. With these things in mind I have to make a request.

Can we please say goodbye to such things as "The wave". I recall going to USFL games as a teenager. Way back in the 80's this was on the verge of being 'old'. Way back then this was pretty neat, cool, and all that. This is 2007, knock it off already!

Gatorade baths: This has become the normal way of celebrating a big win. As the clock ticks down, players will sneak up on the coach and dump the cooler of gatorade on his head. Once again, back when it started this was awesome. 10 years into doing it, it was still fairly fresh and even enjoyable to see. Now? Now, it is just old. Want to impress me? Pick the coach up and dump HIM into the gatorade cooler, Till then I have seen enough.


Guarantees: When Willie Joe namath did it way back when it was unheard of. It took balls to say it as he did. It took even bigger balls to back it up. Nowadays, not a season goes by where someone doesn't give a 'guarantee to win." More often than not

The media plays it up, going out of their way to make a story out of nothing.

Everyone oooohs and ahhhhs.

Then the player making the guarantee gets his ass kicked and that is that.

Want to impress me? At least change it to "I guarantee we will win or else(enter consequence here). For instance, Payton manning could have said, I guarantee we will win or I will donate all the money I made from commercials this year to charity. Brian Urlacher could have said "I guarantee we will win or I will where a dress on Good morning america." Give the guarantee some teeth or don't even bother.

I mean come on, we let go of bell bottoms, and the rubiks cube.

8 tracks gave way to Records, to cassettes,to cd's. Typewriters gave way to computers. Horses gave way to automobiles.

The time has come to say goodbye to these football traditions and replace or at least update them.

As far as the game goes the Bears are 7 point underdogs. Noone gives the bears a chance to win. Part of me would like to see the colts(or at least Payton) win. He is a helluva QB, even if he played for my most hated rival in college and my biggest pro rival as well. I would hate to see him end up as the next Marino.

All that said I am picking the Colts to win but taking the bears and the points. Those picks however come with NO guarantees! For more Sunday scribblings go here.

BD