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Out With The Riff-Raff


Boy, I sure was glad to see six-foot-seven, 350-pound Orlando Brown knock a six-foot, 190-pound referee into outer space over the weekend after the monstrous Cleveland lineman was smacked in the eye by an errant flag weighted with B-B pellets. Does everyone know what that means the next morning when you pick up the newspaper to soak up all that you can on the preceding day's events?

That's right...your local rag dedicates space to the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-14 win over Cleveland that is equivalent to the space that Brown has provided for his running backs over the course of the Browns' 2-12 season.

Allow me to crunch the numbers for you......you carry the three, and square the 12...and......

Not much. Not much at all.

The write-up that I read about the game had about 11 small paragraphs in the body of the story: Seven dealt with Brown.

And it is a notable event......it is a scene that rarely occurs in football. Players have gotten physical with officials during basketball, baseball, soccer, boxing, professional wrestling.....

(Hmmmm....when you crunch the numbers, about the only reoccurring theme that you have AT ALL during a professional wrestling event is: 1) Good guy has the bad guy pinned 2) Bad guy's manager knocks out referee in which good guy lifts himself off bad guy to help out the referee 3) Bad guy's manager hands his protégée a foreign object which is used to pound good guy into oblivion.....good guy is pinned and bad guy retains his championship belt until someone comes along with a female companion that has larger fake breasts than the last guy. Trust me on this scenario folks.....the same thing happened in 1983 when I first started watching wrestling, and last I checked, promoters are still using the same trick.)

And when violence occurs between a participant and a referee, it splashes the covers of the papers. A more larger issue is that whenever any overpaid thug who is on his 45th second chance decides to sneak through an apartment window to see a woman (whose husband happens to be in the bedroom) or decides to hire his street-trash friends to shoot his pregnant girlfriend (while communicating with said thugs from a cellular phone in another car about a block away....nah, they will NEVER look at those phone records Rae!! What a stroke of brillance!), then the general public gets a heavy dose of this garbage which takes away from my time to read how the actual contests turned out.
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