{"id":1920,"date":"2015-09-03T22:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2015-09-03T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:56:22","slug":"the-madness-is-not-just-rand-paul-but-husky-stadium-deflategate-and-of-course-the-trumpster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"The madness is not just Rand Paul, but Husky Stadium, deflategate, and, of course, the Trumpster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Rand<\/a><\/p>\n

RAND PAUL<\/p>\n

Sometimes (often?) I feel like the only sane person on Earth. I\u2019ll amend that. Just you and I are the sane ones.<\/p>\n

What has gotten me going today is two things: Rand Paul and Husky Stadium.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take Paul first. He has come out and said that people who work don\u2019t have time to do heroin. What planet is this idiot on?<\/p>\n

He goes on to say that we need to get more people working and that will stop drug addiction.<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

As I said, what planet is he on?<\/p>\n

I have to wonder if Paul really believes what he says. If he does, he\u2019s truly an idiot. How can a guy like him run for president and think anybody will vote for him?<\/p>\n

The things I read and see have me believing that I have overstayed my visit to Earth. Maybe I\u2019m the one who is not sane and is an idiot. Maybe the world has passed me by. Maybe it\u2019s time to check out.<\/p>\n

Husky Stadium.<\/p>\n

Let me go back a bit on this one. For nearly 30 years I covered Washington football for the Bremerton Sun (now Kitsap Sun) and in all that time there was never to my recollection a sign of advertising at the facility.<\/p>\n

Then, about seven or eight years ago I went back for the first time (before the remodel) and when I walked in I was stunned with all the signage around the stadium.\u00a0 It was unbelievable. And, to me, it was very distasteful.<\/p>\n

Now, also today, there is a Seattle Times story revealing that Alaska Airlines has purchased naming rights for Husky Stadium for $41 million over the next 10 years. It will now be called Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium.<\/p>\n

We have become mad. Everything, it seems, can be bought for a price. Nothing is pure anymore. I supposed someday a huge company (Google) or maybe Putin will buy the rights to Earth. It will be called Google Earth. Oh, wait, there is already a Google Earth.<\/p>\n

I really think I have gotten too old and stayed around too long. \u00a0The next thing you know there will be a trial over a simple things as a deflated football. Oh yeah, I forgot there really was a trial for that.<\/p>\n

That is stupid, also. Who cares if Tom Brady or any quarterback lets some air out of a football so he can better throw it. I think all quarterbacks should have some leeway in the amount of air in a football. Not all hands are equal. Some quarterback hands may need a little help to better grip the football. Remember the Seahawks\u2019 Dave Krieg and his problem with fumbles? It\u2019s because he had small hands. He would have been helped with a deflated football.<\/p>\n

I was a quarterback as a kid so I know how much it would have helped to have a ball with a little less air in it. It\u2019s the same with a basketball. There were a couple times when I played that the basketball was pumped up too much and was too slick for me. I could have used Brady\u2019s equipment boy in those instances.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really want to talk about the Trumpster anymore. He\u2019s a bombastic clown who will eventually be taken down. But what if by a small miracle he gets elected president? Wouldn\u2019t that be great?<\/p>\n

Can you imagine the things he would say? He\u2019d tell Putin a wall is going to be built around Russia and Putin is going to pay for it. And he\u2019d tell those mullahs in Iran that if they didn\u2019t stop exporting terrorism he would impose a heavy export tax on them. It would be great, too, he would say, and that will stop them.<\/p>\n

He would have Sarah Palin as his vice president because, he would say, she is not a slob or fat like the rest of those women. And he would remodel the White House to add 78 stories to it and call it the Trump White House.<\/p>\n

Any war he would start, and he would start many, he\u2019d force the enemies to pay for them. They\u2019d be great wars, too, because anything he does is great.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait. I might even postpone my exit from this Earth just to witness the Trump Madness.<\/p>\n

Enough of this madness today. I need a rest.<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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