The following are unbelievable but true facts and thoughts brought to you by me.
I don’t hate LeBron “king” James.
It is his goal to collect as many of these shinny trinkets as possible. And like any good King or CEO, he finds, or purchases, the best group of people to do just that. And yes, he happens to be a very good basketball player and athlete.
I just don’t particularly route for him.
Lately, we have been going through a bunch of old books and boxes of books in our home. One such book I found was this one.
A Speed Racer activity coloring book!
This was one of my favorite TV shows growing up as a kid. Now, as an adult – kid, I really like looking at all the great expressions and remembering the cartoon series as if were only yesterday. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, ol’ Pops has a couple good football moves in him.
Then it occurs to me that many of the characters often have the exact same expression!
Is it more than just a strong family resemblance? Actually it is an understandable trick or technique that animators used back in the good old days – before computer animation. You see, much of this work back then was done by hand and printed and reprinted over and over. What better way to do all this efficiently and effectively than to reuse (or in modern day terminology – cut and past) the same simple expression or background.
So where else can one find such common expressions?
Perhaps in New England. Or at a convention of top TE Fantasy Football owners?
Maybe Speed and all the others are secret Patriot fans.
With Gronk seemingly falling in love with the going under the knife for “preventive maintenance” (yes his agent really did say that) and now with Hernandez being , at the very least, involved with a homicide; Brady is quickly running out of targets to throw the ol’ pigskin to.
And guess what, Hernandez whether he plays or not, will still get paid! For some reason, Hernandez does not have a no pay for no play clause built into his contract. A clause that almost every other NFL contract has. So if he goes to jail, he still gets paid, and the Patriots are still on the hook for his salary cap expense.
Guess Belichick should have used that old copy and paste technique for creating NFL contracts.
It looks like New England’s chances for another super bowl and fantasy relevance is quickly falling. In fact, their numbers may be falling as much as the stock market has this week. Though I don’t believe they will get that record either.
To quote Jay Leno; The only thing falling more points than the stock market this week is Paula Deen’s TV ratings.
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