Letters to the Editor
The Notorious W.E.S.
Published Letters: 3207 Editor's Choice: 27
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Whenever You Change Something
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You must take into account the existing side attractions that will disappear with the change.
For instance, if you ditch the BCS system and go to a playoff we will no longer have the nerds bitching about it.
I say that's too great a price to pay. That's a tradition I look forward to every fall and winter and a tradition I wish not to sacrifice.
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I Watched
[Read the article: Is Ronald Reagan the new 9/11?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The GOP debate, the debate audience, the Frank Luntz focus group, and the post debate FOX coverage---The closest analogy I can come up with is Jonestown. Not an exact replica, but in the general ballpark.
My favorite part was Huckabee about the Iranian situation and "the gates of Hell"...... I've spoken often about the over-glorification of our military and the overboard ass kissing of the military. Now anybody we kill goes to hell.
The entire question-discussion session about the U.S. battleships and Iranian boats was absurd. "Did the commander of the ship do the right thing not to fire?" It's like they are giving the candidates the choice to either say they should have blown the fuckers up, or at the very least they should blow them up next time.
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I'm No Ron Paul Fan
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But when he was admonishing against over-reacting and blasting away in situations like the recent U.S. Battleship and Iranaian boats, there were reaction shots from the other candidates and they were looking at him like he was insane.
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First Of All
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We have these huge ships constantly patrolling all these waterways around and into the Muslim lands...........How would we like the Iranian Navy in the Gulf of Mexico? We'd have a damn shit fit.
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I'm Sure There Are Russian Ships There Too
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But they aren't simulataneously occupying countries.
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Why Can't Russian
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Decide who are terrorists to them and do whatever the hell they want ? Or China?
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Frankly
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was surprised one of the republican candidates didn't say that any small foreign boat near one of our ships might be like the one that hit the Cole, and theefore they must be destroyed.
That would have brought loud cheers.
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I Don't Think America
[Read the article: The grave Iranian threat to world peace]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the root cause of all these problems.........But when you buddy up to Saddam in the cause of slaughtering Iranians one decade, and then down the road a piece pronounce him the Devil of the Century, get rid of him, and then pronounce Iran the new devil, it tends to complicate existing problems.
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The Only Answer
[Read the article: Another San Francisco tragedy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is to allow everyone to carry guns into athletic events.
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Nerd Heaven
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Tony and Jessica saga.
Go to the sportsbar. The lion's share of the male audience either looks like Woody Allen, or some kind of over fed two-legged farm animal. Know-it-alls with team jerseys on. And a few gals roaming around, frustrated that's this is what the choices have come down to......The guys vicariously living through the players, coaches, and games. The overwhelming focus of their lives has somehow become the diamonds, courts, and fields presented on an HD screen. Piles of wings and pitchers of brew.
Many are celibate or so close to it that we can consider it the practical equal. Even the married ones. Not intentional celibacy mind you, it just happened. Yet still erect and rigid.
Now we have the star quarterback jetting off to the beach with his piece of ass in the middle of the sacred and holy playoffs. And so the nerds excitedly dive in head first (or belly flop) like from the cliffs of Acapulco trying to decide what it all means. Or if it means anything. Did it affect the game? Absorbing the analysis of the media commentators, their nerd first cousins. T.O. is crying in the pressroom now. Isn't he the cat that got this ball rolling? Jerry Jones is on the sidelines with the proverbial corncob stuck up his butt. God knows what he thinks. It's all an inevitable psychological (or pathological) fate-accompli--the end result (or climax) of decades of increasing emphasis on sports in America.
Woody the wannabe athlete and his unfulfilled woody. Millions of them.
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It's Looking Like
[Read the article: Giuliani's Florida: Firewall or retirement home?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only strict constructionist judges Rudy will be appointing will be at some transvestite pageant.
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The Cowboys
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Had Staubach and Aikman.
Romo reminds me of the guy in between--Danny White. A playoffs but no rings kinda guy.
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What Happens First
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cowboys win a playoff game or Notre Dame wins a bowl game. Been 12 and 13 years respectively.
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I Believe Danny White went to NFC Title Games
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]His first couple years.
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Field Goal?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The ball was at the Charger's 7, 2nd and goal when the Colt's went for the TD. That's 3 chances for Manning to connect.......If they kick the field goal there then they have to kick off, which puts the Chargers at their own 20 or 25 maybe better. Then the Chargers are liable to be a tad more liberal and seriously go for a first down, thus exhausting the Indy timeouts and ending the game. Or if they don't, their punt could put Dallas much farther away than a punt from the end zone.
Indy had 3 chances to score the winning TD on 4th down from the Chargers 7 with the accurate Manning, or if they fail and force a punt they need to drive about 50 yards in 2 minutes, which Manning has done a few hundred times in his career I'm sure.
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In That Situation
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the season on the line Dungy must assume that is going to be their last possession.
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In Brief
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A coach must make the decision that is least apt to result in him standing on the sideline, cock in hand, watching the clock tick to zero---and the 2nd possession you were counting on by electing to remain behind on the scoreboard never occurs.
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Deep In Their Own Territory?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]After the kickoff San Diego may have the ball at their own 30 or 40. Hell, they could return it all the way.
I repeat--you cannot allow the possibility of having your thumb up your ass, clock running to 0:00, down 28-27, and San Diego with the ball.
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Nothing Personal
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But nerds want to kick the field goal.
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But Then Again
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A nerd is not uncomfortable with their thumb up their ass. It's their natural state.
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Having a Woody Isn't Enough
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to thrust it forward from time to time.