Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, February 27, 2024

  • That is how I would like to start all my mornings, looking out and sh*tting on the world.
  • Mondays are tough, but at least they end with Jon Stewart and then Stephen Colbert again. And I always get a kick when they show the crowd at the beginning, it’s as if the crowd knows they are in for something special, for something they no longer want to take for granted. He ended the show very emotionally, crying about how his three-legged dog died in his lap. His wish for everyone was to hope we all can find “that one dog.”
  • Yup, the great Peter King is retiring. I’m happy for him but after years of not reading his Monday column only to start back up after my life changed drastically is going to be yet another adjustment to cope with.
  • I’d like to attend a funeral service at my church tomorrow, but the logistics of making that happen will be difficult. But I just found out that it will be live-streamed. Which, I suppose is common nowadays. But, it’s such a good thing to make available for friends and family, especially from out of state, who want to but are unable to make the trip happen.
  • Over the weekend, I came across this old interview of Golden Richards which was how I learned of his death. He played with the Cowboys when I was a toddler, so a little before my time. It was my first time watching that interview and I thought he must have been a real solid man, especially how he prioritized his two young boys. I then thought of the first time I heard of him. I’m certain it was when my father and I was watching Ted Dawson do Sunday night sports on KDFW. There was a segment about how happy Golden Richards was as a city bus driver, Houston, I think. We thought that was interesting, going from the NFL, and out of all the things he chose to do, he chose to be a bus driver because he was a people person. A week later, it was reported that the bus driver they interviewed wasn’t Golden Richards, he just liked telling people he was the former Cowboy player. I can still remember the television interview. It’s almost vivid, and I tried looking for it online. No luck, but what I could find was a 2001 Houston Chronicle article about it. But here’s the thing, my father died in 1998. Now it’s bugging me what memories am I must be confusing and convoluting? It’s funny how we think we remember things. As for the solid man I thought Richards was, a friend sent me this well-written but sobering article about a fan, now reporter, meeting this childhood sports hero and coming to grips with that man who was now addicted to pain medication.
  • The NFL salary cap has been set at $255.4 million per team next season. That’s an unprecedented $30 million increase. For context, next year, each NFL team will should receive over $400 million in national revenue from the league office (media rights, league sponsorships, etc.), meaning NFL teams are already up $150 million before any local revenue is calculated, minus expenses. All that to mention Arlington, which has the Cowboys, Rangers, Rangers Live!, the old Ballpark, and Six Flags all within a stone’s throw of each other, is the only major city without public transport. Jerry Jones helped make sure of that to cash in on parking, and he cashes in. Traveling home after going to any of those events is exhausting. Think about all that as you watch this clip below and imagine how much better our lives can be.

  • I’m certain this was staged, but I’m impressed with the throw.

  • I have a fear of deep water, especially water in which I can’t see what’s on the bottom. I would not do well in this situation.
    https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1760311115509027196
  • You know what else I have a fear of? Falling down stairs, and that was before my mother fell down the stairs in GeedingManor and died from those injuries. Longtime readers will remember that. So, these stairs would be a big NOPE for me, or I’d be white-knuckling the handrails all the way down. My first memory of that fear was walking up the cold wet wooden visitor-side bleachers at Miller Stadium in Mineral Wells for a Veterans Day program I attended while in elementary school.

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