Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 21, 2016

And he will emerge as…?

March? The peak of the hockey and basketball seasons, March Madness, AND spring training…. No time to emerge then!!

OK now it makes sense. Those are no name beer cans, I thought those were his feet sticking out. I guess none of the beer companies would pony up for a product placement.

A piece of relevant trivia: there are only two days per year when there is no football, baseball, basketball, or hockey: the day before and the day after the MLB all star game. And now the home run derby has used up one of them.

divert men into sports so they can overthrow the government, works in America. explains why we are a fascist country. where business runs the government and profits over people rule.

works every time

can’t overthrow, ooops, lol

@Beleck3,I’m 70, have no interest in sports, and have been noticing the military/sports/corporate/government complex since age ten.

Personally, I’m not going to miss him….

I have to confess that I prefer watching sports over most of the crap that passes itself off as television entertainment.

Admittedly, I don’t usually just watch the match or the game. I tend to multi-task a bit and either read a book, do the crossword, or am on my laptop while the t.v. is on.

I guess I’m to ADD’d to concentrate simply on what’s on the tube.

government encourages network programming that makes our citizens into couch potatoes. great for the healthcare industry, and great as a diversion to anything that’s actually happening in the real world, and not the same scripted trio of news stories that all network broadcasts consist of

A way of nature.

Whether I watch a ball game or not has no bearing on the outcome. One team will win, one will lose. I don’t need to know and don’t care. I am not cast into a deep depression for a month like the rest of the state if the football team loses a bowl game. I spend my time doing things that benefit me, that only I can do. The “team” never shows up to help. A pox on all the ritualized tribalism.

I stopped watching football when I did the math and realized that the combination of short season, the NFL’s “parity” policy (which adjusts schedules, rules and trades to assure that the final games of the regular season still matter), and the high dependence upon “big plays” and subjective penalty calls (can anyone really figure out what’s “pass interference” and what isn’t?) meant that the outcome of any given game, and the season as a whole, was pretty much random. No wonder football’s so popular with gamblers.

My basic cable has fifteen sports channels, but not one devoted to music or the arts. Kids are getting “sports-ized” right from the cradle.

But then, it’s “March Madness” so it’s year round.

Five males in my family, and I, the wife and mother, am the only one who watches sports. I do watch the Kentucky Derby, and two follow up races, hoping to get a triple crown. Other than that, no sports are ever on in our homes. And now that we’ve cut the cable, I think the Derby has gone too. No worries.

Bah! Entirely backward. He hatches into a larval state and consumes as much sports media as he is able before forming his chrysalis in February, to emerge again in time for Baseball spring training, where he will mate and flutter about, then die in the first weeks of the regular baseball season. But a new generation from the hopes laid earlier will emerge in August and repeat the cycle.Nature isn’t pretty.

Ahh, good times, good times.

Most sports fans just watch TV…….

Lol. Love it when the I Don’t watch sports Dicks post. You actually feel superior because you don’t.

The best thing about super bowl… Spring training starts soon!