Here we go…the crap that I thought of over the weekend…

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I love football prognosticators and their penchant for over-reactions to a single event or game.

Let me explain…

Every week, it seems that some talking head on television is more than happy to proclaim something bold and complete based on what a team does over a given weekend.

I realize that speaking boldly is how you get people to listen to you, whether it be things that people love to hear or things that piss people off. That is how you get popular.

But over the past two weeks, I have heard over and over that six teams were really back in the collective vision of college football or that they were finally the real deal.

Teams such as Florida State, Michigan, Washington, Miami, Mississippi and California.

And what happened to them this past weekend? All but Michigan were thoroughly beaten down. And Michigan had to hold on to beat a really crappy Indiana team.

Florida State was trounced, just a week removed from clubbing a BYU team that beat Oklahoma, by a South Florida team that was without their starting quarterback.

Washington just beat USC and then responded by getting whacked around by Stanford.

Miami was reveling in their new found swagger and then they were blasted by a Virginia Tech team that had to get a miracle to beat Nebraska.

Mississippi was a darling of the media all summer and early fall but failed to beat a South Carolina team that had struggled at times with their offense.

And California was primped and primed to roll through the Pac-10 season until they were killed by an Oregon team that couldn’t beat Boise State.

What does all of this tell me? It tells me that the ‘experts’ we listen to talk about our favorite sports or movies or politics or news generally don’t know any more than the rest of us. They have opinions and will scream and shout at the wind and expect us to believe that they are some how more knowledgeable than the rest of us.

And they usually aren’t. Maybe they might have more sources than the average person but just because they have those things doesn’t necessarily mean that they are better off to make predictions or proclamations than the rest of us. Because until the games are played, nobody knows what could happen.

I also much question why they feel the need to make those giant statements about a team being ‘back’ or ‘for real.’ Is it for the shock value that they can achieve if the team actually does turn out to be a contender? Or is it because everybody over-reacts to every single moment that takes place in sports?

Because just like any sport, whether it be football or basketball or hockey or anything else, what happens in one week usually has no influence on what happens the next week. And especially in this day and age of sports when team A can beat team B. And then team B can beat team C. When then team C can beat team A. Who the hell can tell which team is better? These people that get so hyped up over what team is winning and by how much should just take a moment to recognize that every week is unique and every team has their flaws and their strengths and you never know which one will show up on a given weekend.

Hell, I could sit around and make claims about what teams are the best in the country but until you’ve played them all, none of it matters.

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Other items that I feel like ranting about…

They are making a sequel to the Nicolas Cage film ‘Ghost Rider.’ Does anybody really want this? The first movie had only one redeeming quality. Eva Mendes. That was it.

Apparently, it has also been documented that children who are spanked have lower IQs than children who are not. The article was posted on Livescience.com the other day and it made me think just how crazy we are as a society about studying and then publishing anything and everything that can be looked at.

Also, at what point will people begin to realize that parody movies are no longer even remotely funny? There hasn’t been a decent film in this genre since the original ‘Scary Movie’ and even that was only moderately amusing. Please stop these pieces of crap from being produced by no longer shelling out your hard earned movie to either watch these in the theaters or viewing them on DVD.

I was also thinking about insults we used to use when addressing another person that I haven’t heard that often any more. Words like ‘dickhead’ or ‘gay wad’ or ‘queer bait’ or ‘trut guy.’ Where as a couple of those are probably politically incorrect these days, there was a time when they were kind of funny. And they also paint really weird pictures of what they could actually mean. Just take a minute to visualize what a ‘gay wad’ could actually be.

I was wondering the other day if I could bring the word ‘urpee’ into the lexicon of modern vernacular. A word that means to take a urination break while in an urban setting. An urban pee if you will.

I found myself thinking a bit about ‘eye goblins.’ I will try to explain. Have you ever seen those floating little bits of weirdness crossing your eyes when you are looking around? Just little bits of translucent pieces of matter. Or is it just me? I’m not crazy. Everybody has them.

And also, this weekend, I found out the hard way that playing in a golf tournament that consists of 27 holes in one day is far too much for a person with my attention span. Nine and a half hours of golf consecutively, while fun with the group I was playing in, is way too demanding on my scatter brained kind of thinking.

That is why I have typed this portion of the blog today. Those were the things going through my head as the day went on.

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Finally, Nebraska won again. Yay.

And before you think that I’m not that jacked about Husker football season, I believe that I have said on multiple occasions that I am one of two things…no longer revolving my life around the success of this team and also no longer concerned about where this team is ranked and how everybody else perceives them. I am merely intrigued to see how this team progresses each week and if they are getting better and making games fun to watch. All they can do is take care of what happens during the week of practice and then on game day. That is all. And I will continue to cheer them and watch the games. When the games are over I will go on with my life and be pretty content.

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That is my Monday post. I will try to keep this going as long as I can but with this whole working thing again, the updates may be at weird hours and periodically sporadic. Bare with me while I work out this newfound sense of responsibility.

Until next time,

This is Pete…

Over and out.