I didn't mean to bug ya
By the way, WVU beat Louisville.
Whoo! (said with ironic boredom)...
Sorry, guys, I like to see WVU do well...but there are too many real things to be working on in this world without expending the amount of energy and capital we spend on gladitorial distractions.
In the time it took WVU to pull it out in triple overtime, on average, there are 11 murders in the United States and 50 forcible rapes. 60 people are infected with AIDS. 5 die in traffic accidents, 2 or three of those are alcohol related. And there are over 400 abortions, while worldwide 6,000 children starved to death.
In the time it took the game to be played out.
In the time it took the people in the stands, not to get to and from the game, but to sit through it. In the time it took ABC to telecast it. In the time the sponsors underwrote for the broadcast.
Glad we have our priorities straight.
I repeat: Whoo!
3 comments:
All work and no play obviously makes William a dull boy.
Game or not... those things still would have happened. One has no bearing on the other - and don't argue resources. Those people were spending the money whether they were concerned about molestation, rape, or murder. People like to be distracted... they pay well for it.
Rape, as a distraction, is a horrible one - and free to boot.
Take care.
I respect what you said, but you seem to be ignoring the other items I mentioned, including hunger and AIDS research, both of which could be attacked with more resources.
And, add to that the mix of alcohol (heavy sponsorship and advertising of sporting events) as part of our culture of spectatorship which contributes to poverty, rape, DUI and homicide statistics and the position is largely indefensible.
Dull boy, hm? Wow, guess I need to get drunk to have a personality. Or, better still, sit still and watch others accomplish things...this will make me less boring?
And, game or not...on an average evening in Morgantown twenty acts of arson do not occur...after the game last night, they did. Admittedly not as bad as it has been on occasion, but how much property loss, injury, rape or mayhem is acceptable to you in order to justify being to say "we're number one"?
If it is your funiture burning, your car vandalized, your child or friend injured or raped, is it no longer worth it?
Look, I'm not saying that those things should be ignored. What I am saying is that blaming a football game for not solving social issues is like blaming a four year old for not solving world peace. One really has nothing to do with the other.
That stadium the team plays in... who is that named after? Puskar? Do you think for one minute he doesn't give more to social causes than possibly anyone in the state?
Yes, firefighters had to put fires out in dumpsters. No one was hurt by them. However, the positive economic impact was felt for miles.
I live over an hour from Morgantown. I just so happened to grab a late dinner that night and counted over 20 people in the restaurant I was in that were returning home from the game, most had out of state licenses. That doesn't even include the number that may have driven through, or the ones who went to a different restaurant.
In the end, what I'm saying is this: fight battles you can win. You can look at the horrible things people do, or you can look at the good people do. Either way you're going to look. Complaining about things that are well beyond everyone's control isn't going to make anyone spend less money on a football game and more on AIDS research.
DUI can be a problem, I won't deny that, but I still can't justify telling everyone they can't do something when the vast majority are doing what they're supposed to. 20 fires vs 60,000+ people don't add up. There are no guarantees that those people were even at the game.
Either way, I'm not ignoring the problem. I just feel that if you're going to create a forum, don't start it by alienating the people you want to have help accomplish goals. The people at that game have the money that you think should be going to a better cause. You aren't going to get it to that cause by insulting their intelligence. Gladitorial distractions are just that... distractions. They may be a distraction from creating the greatest medicines available to man, or working a soup kitchen, or even just something as simple as stress from work.
Even you, obviously watch tv... and in the amount of time it took you to alienate the people whose money you wanted to place in more philanthropic causes by writing that blog, roughly 4 forcible rapes happened, 5 people were infected with AIDS, 1 died in a traffic accident (there was a 50% chance that alcohol was involved) there were around 20 abortions, and worldwide nearly 1,000 children starved to death.
...But odds are, none of them happened at Mountaineer Field.
Does that make blogging bad?
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