d.: This looks like an email from T.
He says that he was helping Cal.E. get started on her book by typing what she dictated to him. He says that she finally just got frustrated and gave up; throwing her hard copy of her book in the trash after Tom the Tabby shredded it. T.’s email says that Cal.E. went to bed and hasn’t gotten out of bed since. I suppose that’s why she hasn’t called me or come over here to write our blog today.
Fortunately, T. said, he had the presence of mind to save what he’d typed in a computer file. He wants me to look at what she’s written so far and see if I can help her by doing some creative editing. He hopes that Cal.E. will then feel like getting out of bed if I just improve the manuscript enough to be published by some publishing company. I would open this attachment and start on doing that now, but it’s time for my favorite radio program…
It’s the Joe Groan show, with your host, Joe Groan….
JG: Oh, oh ooooh! Or maybe I should say “Ho, Ho , Ho,” because it’s the most wonderful time of the year for some people, but not for me. Sure, I’m a big football fan, but this is ridiculous. There’s a football game on every day of the month from now until January. Next week, the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens lock horns on…wait for it, Wednesday, December 25, CHRISTMAS DAY!! And, tonight, the Wednesday before Christmas, we have a college football bowl game. I think it’s called the Tidy Bowl which pits the University of Who Cares? Against their arch rival Nobody U.
Look, I get that the coaches want to have extra practices, and these bowl games afford them the opportunity to do so. It’s a little like having an early spring training. However, no one cares about any of the bowl games except the ones that advance teams toward the goal of winning the national championship. Some people, though, don’t even care about that.
In one bowl game that pits two of the lower-ranked teams in the CFP playoff, some of the players who are entering the transfer portal to go to another school are refusing to play in a game that may give them the chance to call themselves national champions! Yes, they’re backups, but not total bench warmers. Most of these players have logged some time on the field this season. Their performance is what led another school to offer them a chance to play more often (groan), and earn more money for doing it. What ever happened to Be True To Your School, Cheer Cheer For Old Notre Dame, wake the echos whisper the name, and all that rot? School spirt is dead and its been replaced by money-grubbing teenagers who’s only loyalty is to the school that will pay them the most money.
Speaking of the most money, Juan Soto signed the biggest contract in sports history! 756 million dollars. I don’t care if it’s spread over the rest of his, his children’s, his grandchildren and his great grandchildren’s lifetime, that’s an obscene amount of money. Or, to quote Dudley Moore as Author in the movie AUTHOR TWO, I lost 750 million dollars; and this was back when three-quarters of a billion dollars was considered to be a lot of money!”
It’s still a lot of money, Juan and Dudley (God rest your hilarious soul).
Look, I’m not saying that, if another network offered me seventy-five cents more a show that I wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to earn more money on another network; but these guys who are entering the transfer portal could wait until the Spring date to transfer. That’s some time in April of next year. Playing for a national championship is something very few people get to do, unless that person happens to be on a football scholarship at the University of Alabama or Clemson University. When the CFP invited only two teams, I think you’d get even money in any given year that these were the two teams that would be playing for the national championship. Then, Georgia started to win, so the powers that be decided that they must find a way for the U. of A. And C.U. to have a chance to win the national championship. That necessitated a four-team playoff, but that wasn’t enough. Big money schools like Michigan and The Ohio State University wanted a chance to proclaim themselves numero uno in college football, so the twelve-team format was born. That still might not be enough, though. Why not follow NCAA basketball’s lead and invite one-half of the teams in Division One to the party? Then, maybe the smaller schools could earn enough money to pay these young men who are already getting a free college education to come to their school and…go to class? Perish the thought. These are professional athletes now, and should be treated as such. No one who’s already making a decent living needs a college degree, or do they? Injuries happen, and better players will eventually come along, ousting these guys out of their roles. Then, they’ll all wish they’d gone to class and earned a college degree so that they could at least get a job flipping burgers at Micky D.’s.
This has been Joe Groan, with one man’s (correct) opinion.
d.: Well, listening to Joe Groan took up all the spare time a had today, so that’s the wrap for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.
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