Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
The Airing of Professional Football Grievances
For those who know me, I am all about the change up.
Take football. The game has become dull. The teams are either evenly suited to the extent of watching paint dry or so unevenly mismatched, fans for the losing side wish for the old slaughter rule from the community athletic youth league days to end the game with mercy.
Some suggestions for professional football.
When the score is tied, initiate rugby rules. Include the scrum. Once a touchdown is made, give it a score, say 3.5 points or maybe a range of points, depending on style.
Example:
The player’s elegant and artistic dive into the end zone is worthy of the score 5.0 - 9.2.
Game returns to traditional rules of play until the score becomes tied again.
At the end of the game, determination of the exact score of the assigned ranged points earned by said talented football player would be negotiated at the end of game, like his contract.
Extra points for good behavior, good sportsmanship and while I brainstorm this new scorekeeper method, include deduction of points for a winning college football team running and waving high their school flag in the face of the opposition team losing on their own home field.
Glorious.
Don’t get me started on basketball. Oh, what I could recommend to beef up the foul shot.
The same goes for holidaze.
The American spread of the holiday season. Not so fun for some, I’d go as far as to say many. In fact, what was once considered to begin at Thanksgiving has moved back a month to Halloween.
For the lonely, for the grieving, for the displaced, the homesick - move these mothers of holidays to the summer. June, July, August.
At the very least, for those who feel blue, the gorgeous summer sun will lift their spirits. Snow is bah humbug! for those carrying heartache.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! embraces the consolidation of two holidays - Independence Day (USA) and Christmas. Not so farfetched. What if Halloween and Thanksgiving were celebrated on the same day?
Think of the possibilities.
Thank you, trampset for publishing Jesus, Mary and Joseph! (12/23/2019).
Read the story here.
There is always Festivus for the rest of us …..
Hang in there.
