The Sticks Are High, 3 Fights in 9 Seconds
The meek will inherit the earth, but they won’t inherit the ice. The rocky road to Canadian statehood is slip sliding away on the ice.
There is no love lost between Team Canada and Team USA. Some historians believe that the animosity dates back to the French and Indian Wars that began in 1754. I have my doubts about that theory. If that thesis featured lacrosse, I might change my mind.
The 125th Anniversary of Army vs Navy Football
The Army vs. Navy football game is special for me. My dad left the Navy when I was 7 years old. He was an enlisted sailor during WWII in the Submarine Service. He left the Navy as an officer with a full commission. Instead of USNR at the end of his name it was USN.
As a Baby Boomer, even though in the first seven years of my life seeing my dad and others in uniform was the norm, after my dad left the Navy, the military presence was still strong. Friends of my parents had served during WWII. My first scoutmaster was a member of a B-17 crew that was shot down over Germany. He lost several fingers to flack and tried to get beyond the wire of his POW camp twice. Another was a Marine who was wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal campaign. A second scoutmaster served in the Pacific on LSTs, a ship with a shallow draft to land troops and equipment on enemy beaches. He said that LST meant Large Slow Target, not Landing Ship Tank.
Feminization of society?
From Delmiro Junior, Photo ID: 2253076737. Via Shutterstock
I was watching a football game with a friend some years ago, and a defensive lineman knocked Tom Brady down. Well, he reached around the guy who was blocking him and shoved Brady from behind, who then fell down. The referee called roughing the passer. My friend and I both played football in our youth, and we were offended by the destruction of the game we love. I pointed out that football is a game of risk and reward. If you want to send out more receivers and keep fewer guys in to block, then you’re risking your QB getting hurt. It’s the job of the offensive coordinator to protect the QB, not the refs. That’s what makes football interesting.
