Thursday, October 15, 2009

Replay officials.

My 7 year old daughter came to me the other day and asked what I thought she should be when she grows up. As always,I said a mermaid. After giving it a little thought I told her that if mermaid didn't work out,she might think about becoming a replay official. I told her, it was one of those jobs, that seemed pretty easy to do, you simply look at a television and then relay what you saw. Not that tough. It is also a job that currently has a bunch of dumb asses on staff. I wouldn't think it could be that hard but judging from a few of the decisions I have seen over the first month of the season, they need some turnover in the replay guy field. I know of 3 different games that I directly lost because of the incompetence of that games replay guy. That is a 6 unit swing caused by a guy doing a job my 7 year old could do. I am waiting to be on the right side of a couple of those calls but I'm not sure if its coming. Maybe I need to start finding out before the games who is in that booth. Then I can factor in the percentage in the game of the replay being a major part of the outcome. Oh well, still going well overall

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Monday, October 12, 2009

A busy work week,a bye week for 5th grade football and more

Well,we are getting into the meat of the football season. The first 6 weeks of the season could have been worse and it could have been better. Only 1 real bad week. 1 week of 6-9 and a combined 30-16 on the other weeks. We are just above even on the season. Now obviously nobody signs up to break even. The fact is,we are 1 good run from being deep into profit and trust me,that run is coming. We have had seasons like this before, we have a lot of solid wins and some losses with some bad luck. We simply haven't had any good luck to offset some bad luck. Luck will balance out and along with a lot of continued good selections,deep profit is around the corner.
It is a busy couple of weeks ahead. I am off to florida today to meet with some clients,radio people etc. Then back for 10 days before I head to vegas for my first round match up in the leroys national handicap ping contest. Should be a lot of fun.
My sons 5th grade football team is in the middle of their bye week. After a 2-2 start it is clear we have some work to do. The fact is,we lost our quarterback,best rush lineman and 2 others that were key to last seasons success. We are struggling to replace them and we simply are not as good as last season will tell you this,I have more future college graduates on my team than any other in the league. I would bet my kids gpa their senior year in high school will be higher than any other team. W e have a bunch of kids that are going to do great things in life but there is a chance it won't be in football. Kids on all of the teams are starting to figure out the game and we just have a smaller number of those kids than a few of the other teams. We do have great parents and a great group of kids and I will defiantly trade a few wins for the experience I am having with my team.
After the bye week,we head into the playoff run. 3 games left. We will be a favorite against 2 of the teams and a pretty big underdog to the other but you never know. One of my kids might invent a "great football pill" between now and november. Then who's the favorite? You laugh but with these kids , you never know.

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