It helps to have been raised in Indiana to understand this.
Sunset in Indiana
sports
In With The South, Out With The East
In sports, the SEC is very popular these days, especially in football. But, as Frank Deford points out, it’s hard times for members of the Big East.
OK, here’s the idea: Greece leaves the EU and jumps to the SEC.
Bingo! With all the television and bowl money it would get, Greece would be solvent again, and the Southeastern Conference would get that big Athens TV market.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/142128332/in-with-the-south-out-with-the-east
NFL or NBA.
Joe,
Guess which organization has the most criminals:
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, I repeat 71
cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related
charges
8 have been arrested! for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits, and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year !
Can you guess which organization this is?
Is it the NBA or NFL?
Neither,
it’s the 535 members of the
United States Congress
The same group of Idiots that crank out
hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line.
You gotta pass this one on!
101st Airborne Parachutist Delivers Game Ball at the University of Michigan
Dear Joe,
Dave Binder just sent this email to me. I was pretty impressed by the precision of this ball delivery. Did you watch this game?
Love,
Dad
Delivering game balls to the official before a football game isn’t normally a big deal. Oh, maybe some famous former player will get to come and wave to the crowd before he hands the ball to the head ref, but it doesn’t often get creative.
Except, that is, during last weekend’s intrastate showdown between Michigan and Michigan State in Ann Arbor. For that, UM officials decided to look to the skies.
That’s how, after a year in the planning stages, Sgt. Adam Sniffen of the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, jumped from a Cessna several thousand feet above Michigan Stadium and parachuted into the largest football stadium in the country. Aside from the football and an American flag, Sniffen was also sporting a head-mounted videocam that contained a tongue switch in his mouth that would take still photos. More importantly, it recorded every nuance and maneuver that went into making such an insane leap.
Most fascinating perhaps is the tipping point where you can actually start to hear 109,933 crazed fans screaming as this expert paratrooper — who hasn’t missed a target in more than 800 career jumps — comes in and sticks the landing at the 3-yard-line.
