No Respect

The NFC East is regarded by many “experts” as the clear cut best division in football.  Although those “experts” are right, they were wrong about the Redskins this Sunday.  I would pay someone to find an “expert” that picked the Redskins would defeat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

Even after the Redskins defeated the Cowboys, all of the news is how the Cowboys didn’t run the ball enough and how Terrell Owens is running his mouth — again.  The only places I could find any positive news about the Redskins actually doing anything good was at Redskins.com and WashingtonPost.com 

The first article I found that wasn’t on what some would say a “biast” news source, was NFL.com.  The article by Steve Wyche finally gave the Redskins some credit.  Finally! Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a diehard Redskins fan, but this has gone too far.  The love affair the major networks have with Tony Romo and the Cowboys, Donovan McNabb and the Eagles, and now Eli Manning and the Giants is unbelievable.

We’ll forget that the Redskins are now 3-1, we’ll forget that now the Redskins beat the “best team in the league” on Sunday in Dallas, we’ll forget that Jason Campbell compared to the other godly quarterbacks has a better: completion precentage, quarterback rating, and zero interceptions. 

Finally Wyche, is writing my words for me in his article.  Finally Campbell starts to get some recognition, along with his teammates.  Finally someone is saying that the NFC East isn’t just a three team race.  “It’s all about Campbell because after playing poorly and drawing criticism from first-year coach Jim Zorn in a season-opening loss to Eli Manning and the New York Giants, Campbell arguably has been the most efficient and effective quarterback in the NFL.” 

“Now may come the hard part. Campbell might not be viewed as a project anymore. The Redskins won’t be looked at as the fourth team in the NFC East. Focus and concentration will now be tested.”  Considering after next weeks game at Philadelphia the Redskins play the Rams (0-4) and Browns (1-3) both at home then travel to play Detroit (0-3).  This team has a realistic shot to get at 6-2.

No Respect !

Flourburglar

I thought I would never hear anything like this — but then again I shouldn’t have been suprised.  Two men were arrested Thursday morning who “face felony grand larceny charges in connection with the alleged theft of nearly $2,000 worth of baking flour from Horizon Milling at the Port of Albany.”  Franklin Johnson and David Barna are the two suspects.  I cannot believe this, what have people really come to.  The best part is that the company believes there is up to “tens of thousands of dollars” of stolen flour.  Yes — I said flour.

I understand this is a serious matter of grand larceny but seriously who steals flour and Detective James Miller said that “they may have been reselling it.”  That’s great, I can picture two 40 year old men selling flour on the street corner.  I didn’t know there was such a high demand for… flour.  Do people get high on flour?  Unless I’m missing the whole point of this article?  Is ‘flour’ a code word for some type of drug?

The article then goes on to tell us about the editor of the trade magazine Milling & Baking news, Josh Sosland, tells us the prices of flour.  I know this is a serious article but they really are assuming that these two guys were re-selling the flour.  I cannot believe what people will do to make some money.

Afghanistan Bombings

On Sunday an Afghanistan suicide bomber “rammed” into a United Nations convoy killing three people.  It seems that the problems in foreign countries will never end.  Not to say that we the United States don’t have our own ridiculous problems, but it seems that problems such as in Afghanistan are more drastic.

“This attack was on innocent civilians working only for the people of Afghanistan, and is beyond comprehension,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a statement.  There was also another separate bombing that killed six innocent children and wounded a total of 12.  The article later states on how many deaths have occurred in Afghanistan in 2008 due to violence. The amount of deaths?  3,000.  The highest total since 2001 and it’s still September. 

Although this may have nothing to do with the war that our troops are currently dealing with, it goes to show you that some people out their have no mercy.  This ultimately is the problem with most of these foreign countries that the U.S. invades, they believe that killing is the morally correct thing to do and that is scary.

Even at the end of the article there is mention of the amount of British troops that have died in Afghanistan since the U.S. invaded.  120.  120 more than there should have been I believe.

Entertainment?

This being my first ever blog I wanted to make sure it was good and well thought out.  The topic was going to be entertainment, and what a better way to find out about entertainment would be to search at TMZ.com. 

Man was I wrong.  If people really find looking at Britney Spears stumbling into her car “entertaining” then there is something severely wrong.  Or of course the other popular star for some reason, Paris Hilton, nothing entertaining for me at TMZ.

So now my search brought me to Yahoo!, I knew that they must have an entertainment section as being one of the most popular search engines on the Web.  Yahoo! was more professional and less celebrity gossip than TMZ(Thank God!), it had a lot of show listings and a ton of advertisements.  Just when I started to enjoy this section of Yahoo! I notice something at the top right hand part of the page.  “Celebrity News by OMG!”  So for the enjoyment of the readers I decided to click on this link and found a whole page of who’s pregnant, who had sex with who, and who has been arrested.

I continued to do this at about every entertainment website I knew of and they all had celebrity news as their main attraction.  I don’t understand how this could be a form of “entertainment” to anyone.

For me entertainment should be what kind of television is on tonight, what movies are coming out, any bands coming to the local area, what sporting event is on, things that can entertain.  Seeing a celebrity at their worst on-line or on TV is hardly “entertainment” to me.