I Know Many of My Dear Readers Don’t Give a Hoot About the National Basketball Association but I Do...Or do I?

I am tired of watching a player getting brushed by an opposing player on his collarbone and seeing the brushed player fall to the floor holding his eye as if he is trying desperately to keep his eyeball from coming out of its eye socket.

That’s bad enough but it gets even worse when the referee sees what had occurred and he falls for the player falling to the floor in imitation pain and he blows his whistle while thinking to himself, “Oh my gosh! At first it looked to me as if the brushed player has received an Insignificant Collarbone Brush That Actually Did Not Make Contact With His Collarbone, but I must be wrong, because he fell to the ground in Significant Imitation Agony so this must certainly have been a serious hit because he is screaming that he has been seriously hit.”

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Every time I turn around (and sometimes when I don’t turn around) I hear the announcers saying, “It looks like they (the referees) are going to take a look at this one”.

Some of us think games are too long (I certainly do), and this is the major reason why they are too long...

Ø The games are repeatedly stopped to, “take a look at this one”.

Ø the referees go to the Official Official’s Table on the sidelines to, “take a look at this one”.

Ø A TV Monitor is turned around so they can, “take a look at this one”.

Ø All 3 of the referees’ stare at the monitor for a long time because they are looking at whatever they are looking at from 27 different angles.

Ø Fans go to sleep, announcers go to the rest room, fans at home start shouting at their TVs and monks in abbeys start praying for football season to start.

Ø The players who were on a hot streak cool off.

Ø The players who were getting the puntuck (I made that up) kicked out of them recover and they go on a hot streak if ever the game starts again because the players who were on a hot streak have cooled off.

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The most Stupid of Stupid’s is when we hear the announcer saying, “He thinks he was fouled!?” 

Fella says, “He thinks he was fouled?! Huh? They think they are fouled whenever an opposing player gets within 2 feet of them.”

If all the players were given whistles and allowed to call fouls when they thought they were fouled, the games would last days instead of hours because the clock would never run for more than 5 seconds before a player would blow his whistle and play would stop so the referees could go to the Official Official’s Table to, “take a look at this one”.

Michael Jordan would never have been the great player he was because he always played with his tongue sticking out of his mouth when he was about to make another one of his jaw-dropping miracle shots. It would have thrown His Greatness off his game if he had a whistle in his mouth and he had to keep his tongue in his mouth behind his whistle. It would have put a hitch in his get along and he would have ended up being called “His Average” instead of “His Greatness”.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I am going to start this Blog Posting over from the very beginning and this time I will not get carried away and exaggerate…Or am I going to?