Category: General Sports (Page 111 of 112)

I tried to watch the MNF game last night – I really did. But the third quarter was arduous. The teams were partly to blame. During the quarter, there were six penalties and eight punts. Eight punts?

Compounding the problem were all the commercial breaks. Over the first nine minutes of the quarter, there were five commercial breaks. Considering each commercial break is 2-3 minutes, that’s 10-15 minutes of commercials for nine minutes of actual game time. The quarter started at 11:06 ET and ended at 11:59, for a total of 53 minutes. The game is only supposed to last until midnight and at that point, there was still a quarter to play!

We, as a nation, are assaulted by advertising and marketing campaigns every day, and it’s only getting worse. A couple of years ago, the NFL made a rule change – the clock will continue to run for most of the game even when a player steps out of bounds. But the games are still lasting 3+ hours. So all this rule change provides is an opportunity to show more commercials. Isn’t the NFL making enough money?

Last night was an example of how the game is being ruined. It was already a poorly played game, but the fact that we had to take five commercial breaks in nine minutes made it that much more difficult to watch.

I wonder when we, as a nation, will get fed up with this deluge of marketing and advertising and how exactly we’ll revolt.

Two Carolina Panther cheerleaders spent the night in jail after getting into an altercation with another patron of Banana Joe’s nightclub in Tampa, Florida.

Clipped from a more descriptive article without photos:

Club patron Melissa Holden said she and other women became angry while waiting for the restroom. Holden said she could see the two women in the stall and heard moaning. After about 15 minutes, she said, the two women emerged. Another patron complained and then “the blonde hit me in the face,” Holden said. Holden said she grabbed that woman’s arms, held them behind her back and called for security.

“I have a big black eye now and I have to go to work on Tuesday,” said Holden, a nurse.

The moral of the story? If you are on the road and have a hotel, just go there to have lesbian sex with your cheerleader friends. Don’t hog a stall at Banana Joe’s.