Why oh Why do we care so much

So hear it is, NFL draft weekend, the two days that sports fans hear way too much about for months, and then waste an entire weekend watching to see who their favorite team may choose to be the future of their franchise. I may bad mouth the draft by saying that we shouldn't care near as much as we all do, however I spent the whole weekend at work watching with great interest as the whole deal unfolded. This year I was transfixed for two reasons: 1. as always I wanted to see who would go to my favorite team, the Green Bay Packers. And 2. would my friend Kyle Steffes and his North Dakota State Bison teammate Craig Dahl hear their name called. At the time that I wrote this Post neither Steffes, nor Dahl had been chosen. As for my Packers, it was another disappointing draft from my perspective. The Pack desperately needs playmakers on offense, and they owe it to Brett Favre to get a few, but they spent their first round draft pick on Defense for the fourth straight year. They then picked several project type players who may not be able to step in Right away and contribute. They may have only one year left in the Brett Favre era, and they needed players who can step in and contribute right now, not guys who may be nice players in a few seasons. I had several playmakers in mind that they could pick up. Marshawn Lynch, Dewayne Jarrett, Michael Bush, Greg Olsen, or even trading for Randy Moss would have helped this team right now. But Lynch was gone when Green Bay picked, they passed on Jarrett and Bush for a back that didn't even start the whole year for Nebraska last year, and the watched as Moss went to the suddenly terrifying Patriots. Oh well, maybe there will be a diamond in the rough or two for the Pack. I shouldn't worry, just because I haven't heard of them doesn't mean that they are no good right? That's what all of us who may be upset about our teams draft need to tell ourselves.

Enough Already

It amazes me that it took the cable news networks almost a whole week to cut down on showing the chilling photos and video from the VT killer. It wasn't that the video wasn't newsworthy, it was, but just the fact that the stations ran it virtually non stop for five days until angry e-mail from the victims families caused station brass to cut back on the footage. There is a certain responsibility that these networks have to show the news, but also to protect the viewers. I'm not upset that the video was shown on air, I feel that there was a need for the public to see it, just not 24/7 for five days. I don't know anyone that after day 1 hadn't seen the video at least once, and I saw it countless times. As chilling as it was to me, I can't imagine how anyone that was in anyway connected to the tragedy felt while watching it, the networks have a responsibility to limit their grief as well.

I was glad to see that after Sung-hui Cho's family made their first public statement about their sons crimes that the victims families place no blame on Cho's family. I don't know anything about this young man's home life, no one outside of the family does, but this is not a time to place blame on his family. Remember, their son died too, and their grief is just as warranted as any of the victims families. I can't possibly imagine what his family must be going through, dealing with his death as well as the realization of what their son did.

To the 2008 presidential election now, John Edwards has reimbursed his campaign for the two $400 hair cuts that were charged to his campaign's account. $400 and his hair still looks goofy as hell. That is just another benefit of being Rudy Giuliani, he as no hair so he saves $400 every few weeks. Still looks like Clinton and Giuliani have small leads over Obama and McCain. I'm still waiting for Gore and Gingrich to join the fun and really shake up the frontrunner's. Stay tuned.

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