Where to Turn

Welcome back after a long hiatus off of blogging. I'm not sure what "person" that last sentence is in...if there are any English majors out there feel free to let me know. It is with a heavy heart that I attempt to pound out this blog. My beloved football (NFL) will potentially be shortened or non existent this upcoming year. Think of the fantasy, Sunday/Monday, and Madden video game implications! The average person finds it hard to understand how a 9 billion dollar a year (let me put that in numbers for you...9,000,000,000) corporation can't figure out how to split up the funds without coming to this. This = the NFL owners locking out the players. The main issues at hand are the owners want more return on their investment, 2 extra regular season games, and an adjusted rookie pay scale (aka the Jamarcus Russell rule). The players would like to remain close to the current structure which includes them getting 60% of the revenue while somehow figuring out how to compensate its injured and retired players with better health coverage/benefits. As a result of this stalemate, the NFL Players union disbanded and 10 players (including Brady, Manning, Brees) have filed suit against the NFL in hopes to prevent them from being locked out for the upcoming season. I'm no longer holding my breath for a normal season and will start reading up on "Pottery for Dummies"...or idiots if you will.

If you didn't fall asleep after reading that, NCAA tourney time is upon us. For those of you (like myself) who will figure out ways to watch this while at work...be advised, this year the games will be on a myriad of channels (aside from the usual CBS only) so you can choose which games you want to watch in it's entirety. Check your local listings...starts 3/15. I've filled out my bracket of integrity. You should put about as much faith in this playing out as I'm predicting as you would in Charlie Sheen making a coherent sentence during an interview.



I ran across this video, well it ran across me...I found it to be of the car wreck variety where you don't want to look but you can't stop looking. FYI, maybe you shouldn't watch while eating lunch.