Sports. Oh the agony....

These are my thoughts, my own opinions, not associated with anyone else. Enjoy

First off let me say I missed the Packers/Seahawks second half, but this football season has been one of the most theatrical ever. Professional sports has become a what-not-to-do in forms of poor leadership, and here is my take on 3 of them. I will post my thoughts on the others, that is if you want me too.

The NBA is the most dramatic league around. There are more flops (literally and figuratively) than World Cup Soccer. Overpaid, enabled cry-babies making the equivalent of the GND of a third-world country. Trying to be political activist wearing "I can't breathe" t-shirts during warm-up, not caring about anyone but looking just pretending to care about society. Its a shame, a disgrace that it is on nine months of the year. Its a shame that people go crazy over basketball of this type. Yes type, do they know how to play defense? Is defense even allowed? There are the "Bad Boys". Imagine LeBron James driving the lane against Detroit back then, can you say "lights out, night-night". Now college basketball is becoming just as bad. Oh and be careful little mouth what you say. That will cause you to be force to sell your own team. Players say the same thing that owner said. The difference, the that owner was white, crazy apparently, but yes white. You can rap about it, but don't YOU say it.  Otherwise that double standard that exist will bite you in the behind, or check book. Besides any sport that takes 6 months to play their regular season, and another 2 to 3 months to do their playoffs, well that is just plain, BORING.

The NFL. Just think of the impact they could have on young football players. Fortunately they do not allow players to come out after their freshman year. They do have an age limit. For this I do give them a "golf clap". However the handling of several incidents this year has led me to believe that the NFL, well it could be rigged. Goodell apparently does not wish for Jerry Jones to get to the Super Bowl on his watch. Calls, no-calls and reversed calls cost the Cowboys this year. Leaving the  outcome of a football game should never be left in the hands of an official, in any sport. The Ray Rice situation was a fiasco from the start. All the continued drug suspensions and the final straw was Suh stomping Rodgers injured calm in the final game of the year. Spatial awareness, really? Oh your suspended but now your fined. The NFL's leadership is poor at best. No direction. Where is Al Davis and Pete Rozell when we need them. Now they are going to have teams from each coast (TV ratings) playing. Lets face it if the NFL is NOT as good as it was a few years ago? Is the double standard in the NFL getting as bad as the NBA? Not yet.

Now NASCAR. NASCAR has become the most predictable sport around. Step out of line and you will be fined, or points taken away, or wait its who? Oh that's OK, they were, uh, er, uh yeah its OK for them to do. Oh wait they can't do that, fine them. I have, or was a fan of NASCAR from the days of Petty, Yarborugh, my favorite Pearson, and the Allison brothers. This is when racing was racing. There were no "templates" no "traction control" or fake fights. If there was a fight, blood is going to be spilled. Engines were engines. Gasoline was leaded, and it didn't make a hole in the ozone layer or cause "global warming". Drivers smoked in Victory Lane, kissed the race queen, and were not riding their daddy's coattail. The won because they made a car run with out 30 engineers or pouting to the NASCAR trailer, or worse the cameras. Now its politically correct racing. Don't cuss on your own radio frequency or they will fine you. Don't give that driver the finger, they will get you. Don't show any real emotion or they will fine you. Teams were proud and fans were too. They raced, and raced hard. There were no restrictor plates, the cars flew and the fans loved it. Now its hard to give away tickets to a race. NASCAR is predictable, you pretty well know who is going to win (Hendrick or Gibbs the majority of the time). Rules are made to cater to no particular ownership group. I have quit watching racing. I could not tell you who won this years "cell-phone" cup, because it BORING. Racing is boring even at 200 MPH for 3 hours side-by-side until somebody wrecks takes half the field out and then wreck again. NASCAR sucks any more, and its a shame because it used to be an awesome sport. Ownership my one family since the beginning has become a cancer to something that use to be great. BORING Brian France, BORING and EXPENSIVE.