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In case there’s any question of where my loyalties lie when it comes to football even though I live in the Twins now

Yeah I live in Minneapolis. But my team is still DA BEARS. And if you all hear excessive use of the word fornication or other curse words or celebration coming from a northerly direction you know why.

Just when you think Australian footy had run out of ways to be a__holes*, they manage it again. Essendon Football Club appointed the Chair of an anti-LGBTQ+ church to their board as Chief Executive. Somehow they 'missed' that this dude held beliefs that were antithetical to the club's 'values.' The guy in question has resigned already, but there is talk of suits being brought because he was being discriminated against because of his beliefs. (Link to ABC News article) I don't have anything against someone with his religious beliefs being appointed, but inevitably it would lead to a point where he refused to fund/allow/endorse programmes that encourage and develop inclusion because they go against his Jeebus, and THAT is what I disagree with. If any services or programmes were downgraded as a result of his appointment, then he has been the cause of making the world unsafer. Footy clubs are bastions of white cis male privilege and they can f___ off. *I'm not commenting on the allegations of absolutely disgraceful and disgusting behaviour displayed by Hawthorn management to Indigenous players, although it is very much on my mind.

Well there's one thing that's not happening this year...

Something good happened today. I was wondering if they were gonna pull it off cause usually the first game is against some school no one in Iowa ever heard of and is barely Division I. I’m happy any time the Hawkeyes win. As long as they win more than they lose I’m happy. And I hope Floyd of Rosedale spends yet another year at his proper home in Iowa. (Yeah even if I move to Minnesota I’ll still bleed black and gold).

Saw this today. And said a few four letter words….. Ok. Full disclosure. A lot of four letter words. Along with fudge, fornicate, and other creative ways of expressing disappointment.

Saw the Seahawks were wearing these uniforms tonight. Did someone with the Seahawks organization lose a bet?

Ugh, another reason to hate the Washington NFL team.

We should all be more like NFL football players. Why do I say that? Because every time they execute a play, like they are paid handsomely to do, they celebrate like the clock just struck midnight on New Year's Eve! They point, they strut, the high five, and they dance. Boy do they dance! They must think those tight uniform pants showing off all 300 pounds of their junk in the trunk maes them somehow adorable. But wait, perhaps this somehow gets you started on a second career. Take for example, Von Miller of the Denver Broncos, whose hip-shaking gyrations have landed him a spot on the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars." Sure, other football players have been on the show and even won the competition (Hines Ward). But those were players from a different era, where popping champagne for every successful action was the norm. Could you imagine if we did that at our own jobs? A nurse successfully gets an IV in a patient and begins jumping up and down, spinning in circles, pulling the IV out, blood spraying everywhere. A fireman gets the hose properly connected to the hydrant and tears off his coat in rejoice while the house continues to burn. Obviously these are extreme examples, but I know if I did pelvic thrusts in the hallway at my office every time I did something that, well, I get paid to do, I would look incredibly silly and would not end up on DWTS. Just sayin...