Random Tuesday Writings

The Lions won convincingly Sunday. It's kinda making it hard not to believe in them.

College football is now a type of professional football, with all the NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) money going around. Ohio State for example paid around $20 million to its players. I'm not saying that's wrong. But it is causing athletes to jump around from team to team (Marshall couldn't play its bowl game because so many players had left the team for greener pastures) and ripping the game from its roots. So can we be spared the myth of the scholar athlete, the hype about how important 'the game' is to 'the kids playing' at least where the big revenue sports are involved? It's all about the money now, folks. Again, not bad. Yet decidedly different. I, for one, don't know that I like it.

I mean, it really just adds to the hype, the artificiality, of the whole thing. It's turning me even more off of a game which I've been slowly losing interest in for years now. Maybe I do know how I feel after all.

Glad we missed that big winter storm a few days ago. Winters haven't been bad in Detroit recently. Am I tempting fate bringing up the issue?

Well, there's a machine with an oil leak, another 'not saying nothing' as the customer related to me (I had no idea drain snakes might be sentient or self aware), and a third which needs a new motor table adjustment. I suppose I should get to them.