Wild Oct / Nov. week!

G'day Everyone!



Well, the weekend has been a big **YAWN** to me. But I got pretty wide eyed of what has been going on.



First: Hearing about my faithful Gallaudet Bisons Football team get whomped on a road trip put me in a sad mood.
Worse was to hear the bad bus driver that decided to make things go worse by taking the LONG way home. (ouch and D'oh!)
A lot of people asked me if we should be bringing back the bison drum back on the side lines and drumming to help the team? That is to say, I believe the time has come to arrive for it.
If we lose 2 more games (one this weekend at home (GU) and one on the road), I think Coach Hottle knows he's about to be attacked in Fernandes style some time later. (pack some petitions, but leave the pitch spoons at home).

Second: Penn State University (PSU). Big loss to the boasting Ohio State University (OSU). Several fans have been bitching away that the Refs were NOT doing thier job and that several plays were deems suspectious.
Will NCAA call in their own Sherlock to investigate the PSU-OSU game? Prolly not given the way the late Football season is. We should hope OSU will dismantle itself later. OSU had to be escorted out of State College, PA after taunting several PSU players and fans. They were protected till they reached the state line. (some eggs got their bus)
But now is the time for PSU to divest itself out of the Big Ten and put it college back where it belongs, in the Atlantic state division. Joe Paterno, JoePA for short, ought to start thinking retirement sooner or later, most likely sooner! The sooner he decides, the better it will be for PSU!

Third: Big yawn! I had no need to watch the world series. I knew that arrogant team: Boston Red Sox would win the title, AGAIN! The better baseball team? NOPE. Just one of those arrogant PROUD teams that boasted in spring training that they'd win the title outright and they did. I would like for Boston, for once, to give this world series title to a team that has NEVER won it as a gesture of Sportsmanship. THE RED SOX SUCKS! ***YYYUUUCCCKKK** BORING WORLD SERIES 2007!



Fourth: Here's a question of the day: How much is too much? There was a controversy of hearing the Washington Redskins losing to the New England Pats by a score of 56-7. Now question is.. When is it a "MERCY" to call the game? In some NFL games and College Football games, when the other team is THOROUGHLY beaten down to the point where it is very highly impossible odds to overcome to defeat the other team in a game. I mean, I've seen scores of 60's, 70's, and 80's ranges of points, thoroughly putting the game out of reach against the opposition team. So tell me, when do you call it "END OF THE GAME"?

In my honest opinion, when it's the last quarter of the game, it should be a merciful end when the score is already MORE than 3 chances for a touch down. By ending it early, you are doing the teams a favor. Nobody likes to watch another team boasting of how they are beating the opposition. It creates rage, anger, and hurt. In the past, there have been several incidents where a football team has to be protected from boasting fans or angry fans and escorted away from the stadium as soon as possible. Some of them had to be protected till they got out of state.

One incident stands out in my mind. It's not football related, but it is baseball. My hometown has had a wonderful baseball team. Minor league. When they had a championship series.. the other team thoroughly beat my home town by more than 20 points. By the time it was 7th inning, none of the players had a heart to try to win the game. They were demoralized. By 9th inning, the home town crowd got really ugly. The coach of the visiting team had a presence of mind to have the assistant managers and equipment managers to stay behind and gather up stuff for later (they hid in the locker rooms with the doors closed and locked securely). The team had to scamper for the bus real fast and the bus had to pull away fast as it could. It got pelted with all sorts of objects. (don't ask me what they were. It was REAL UGLY). I wasn't part of it but I was shocked.

So the day has to come in the sports world for an ethical decision of WHEN to end the game when a team has put the game out of reach. It isn't sportsmanship any more. It's BOASTMANSHIP. It's when a thoroughly embarrasses the other team, officials ought to call it over to prevent fights and ill will. I have never seen teams more bitter than those who want to beat the other team for the bad memories. We need to ethically bring SPORTSMANSHIP back into the game more by a general rule of just how far teams should be able to out-score the other team.

Lastly: What happened to Ridorlive.com? A lot of people have asked me if I knew what happened to his web page lately. As far as I can tell you, I do not want to add to the list of rumors about his troubles. I expect Ricky Taylor will deal with the techies of his provider and get his site back up and running. Whatever what caused the crash, I am going to ask Ridor fans to please have some respect for Ricky Taylor. It's no fun overwhelming a web server. A web author doesn't like to watch his web page crash at all. So please, back off and give Ricky time to get his page back up and running again, thanks.

Finally, I will comment later about the historical events that it is now officially ONE YEAR after the fall of Jane Fernandes. We're still dealing with messes at Galladet.

Still we ought to be concerned about Jordan, Fernandes, and Kimmel coming back to the campus. That'll be a future post soon.

for now.. SEMPER FI!