26 January, 2013

20 January, 2013

Marc Trestman: Antithesis of Nepotism

"Marc wasn't born into the NFL. ... He had to work his way up to that position." -- Howard Schnellenberger 

The quote in today's Chicago Tribune regarding the Chicago Bears hire of Marc Trestman as the franchise's 14th head coach.

Wouldn't it be nice if they just taught you in 4th grade that, unless you're born into the business and your folks held an upper-level position in the business, you could expect to work your whole life trying to get into the business with no real chance of ever making it. But no, the masters of society prefer to preserve the illusion of opportunity.

It took Marc Trestman 32 years of coaching to get his first head coaching opportunity in the NFL.  Good for him.  I will be pulling for him.

11 January, 2013

Gee, Such Strange Weather We've Been Having Lately

6:00 AM central standard time Chicago, Illinois and the temperature is 52 degrees.

Take a look at the date of this posting:

January 11, 2013

A small tidbit, a fine example, of how mankind has completely ruined the environment.

6:00 AM central standard time Chicago, Illinois.  Temperature 52 degrees

January 11, 2013

Gee, such strange weather we've been having lately is the understatement of all understatements in our brief existence on the Earth.