Well we have almost officially arrived at my most dreaded time of the year. The football season is almost over, and baseball is still ten weeks away. I wish I could get into basketball, but I just have a hard time watching all the walking, ball carrying, and fouling that goes on in both college and pro basketball.  I guess I may be a little different, but I guess I prefer to watch college football most of all. It just seems more passionate than the pros. After that I would have to say pro football is my next favorite followed by pro baseball.

The really nice thing about baseball is that I can have the game on and keep up with it very well with the sound down as I read or work. Of course all sports are easier to watch now that I have a DVR. If I am reading and realize that I missed something, I love the fact that I can just go back and watch it. Whoever invented that device deserves a bonus. Please keep the bonus thing quiet, we don’t want the Pres. to find out that capitalism is involved. He might tax the poor soul who enhanced our viewing pleasure.

Back to this being my least favorite time of the year in terms of sports and TV viewing; let’s face it, without sports we are left with regular TV. That means a week full of killing, healing by Doctors and nurses with the serious problem of perpetual arousal for anything that walks, or “comedy” that involves male bashing, stupid people in authority, and a need for a condom machine in every room in every building. Oh yes, one other thing, every show either drama or comedy must have at least one gay person.

That brings me to my next favorite type of TV program. Reality TV. Yes friends I watch dumb reality shows. I enjoy Survivor, and The Amazing Race, I wish they would bring back The Mole, and I love American Idol once they get to Hollywood. I don’t enjoy the early shows where they show the bad singers who are willing to make fools of themselves. To be honest I have built a reputation as a writer and speaker based on self deprecation, but I hate to be portrayed as a fool.  Anyway it seems to me that Reality TV at least gets away from all the sex and killing that has taken over the broadcast.

I hadn’t intended to get on my soap box this morning, but it seems that’s where I’m headed so I won’t fight it. I have to ask why we have allowed things to get to where they are in TV land. My grandkids are not allowed to watch much TV, and what they do watch needs to be recorded. Let’s face it; it is difficult to explain erectile dysfunction to a five year old. Pay attention to the NFL advertising next weekend and you will see that if we didn’t need cars to drive, beer to drink, and help with getting it up, there would be little advertising. Today’s boys get an endless supply of women dancing around in their underwear, and everyone is inundated with idea that sex is to be enjoyed by anyone who wants it with anyone they want it with. Take a look at the cartons your kids are watching. Whatever happened to Tom & Jerry, or Yogi Bear? Bugs Bunny and The Road Runner were good too. They were always chasing each other around wanting to do harm but nothing bad ever happened. Now days all the children’s entertainment has do with a dark evil that must be taken care of by a hero.    

Let me wrap this up before I really go off.   I think I have two boys, well ok their both thirty give a year to one and take a year from the other, who could win The Amazing Race. These guys are athletic, analytical, level headed, very competitive, and built like rocks. I would love to see them compete in the race. I am even sure they would be picked as competitors because of the following criteria. They are from Dallas, which seems to carry a lot weight in TV land. As I stated before they are put together very well which plays well, the ladies would enjoy watching them doing all the daring and dumb things that are required during their race around the world. Not only are they built, there would be no need for them to wear a bag over their head because they are both very good looking, which is no surprise since one of them came from me. They are in the health care industry too and that always seem important. When was the last time you saw a reality show without a pharmaceutical sales rep? I got that in my son-in-law, he sales dental supplies. The producer also knows that a heart throb Doctor never hurt in the ratings department. I got that too, my son is a Dentist.  So you see these guys have three of the four main criteria for being cast on a reality show. They are from Dallas, they are good looking and well built, and they are in the medical industry. Now if I can only convince them to claim one falsehood. If they were to claim to be Gay, brother-in-laws from Dallas who were in the medical field, and just happened to be good looking hunks to boot, they would be shoe-ins. That brings that to an end, the boys would never agree to that, thankfully.

Wait, I may have another way to get them on the show. Hollywood loves to have Bible thumpers on their shows, you know, guys they portray as “Christian” so they can somehow set them up to look bad some time during the race. I can promise there would be plenty of footage of the two reading, studying, and praying as they made their way around the world.

Till next time,

Grump

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