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It’s unanimous!

Posted: September 26, 2012 by sportinglife76 in Lifestyle, Zombie
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Every team hates the zombie scab refs! Packers fans REALLY hate the zombie scab refs! Hell, I’m a Seahawk fan and I hate the zombie scab refs. It makes no sense that so many people can hate something so much and yet continue to follow. It’s like a zombie parade.

Only a zombie would continue to obsess even when the game became fundamentally unjust. Both teams spent the second half of Monday Night Football getting screwed over by zombie scab refs, but instead of rejecting this broken product, fans of American football in general and of both teams in particular became more engrossed and enraged. That this crescendoed into the worst call/non-call in the history of sports (though not the most important) shouldn’t be surprising.

What does that make us?

Zombie referee

Some may argue that Goodell is hardly a zombie mastermind, but Monday Night’s game proves it. Somewhere, he is laughing his zombie master laugh.

Dante narrates the 2012 Boston Marathon

Posted: April 16, 2012 by sportinglife76 in Climate change, Lifestyle
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If you are a runner, today is a hard day for denying climate change, thanks to near-record temperatures at the Boston Marathon. While history will have to ultimately weigh in on the name of today’s infamous contest, the 2012 edition will have a hard time topping the 1909 race, known as “The Inferno.” You just can’t beat Dante.

…new torments and new tormented souls I see around me wherever I move, and howsoever I turn, and wherever I gaze.

That’s about how I felt on my first marathon! Now double the temperature.

Really, Dante makes for perfect captions when depicting this year’s race.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…
                                         Canto III: The Gate of Hell

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Jeremy Lin, Zombie Killer

Posted: February 20, 2012 by sportinglife76 in Lifestyle
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By now we are all swept up in Linsanity (25 points per game, 9.2 assists per game in the last 9 games). I had the distinct pleasure of being court-side for Jeremy Lin’s coming out party. The game had no real intrigue going into it, since the Knicks had been sucking and no one knew that Jeremy Lin was about to erupt and become a transcendent hero (which is probably how I ended up with a court-side seat). No one expected anything, especially because the Knicks were playing the Nets. The best part of the game going in was Kardashian bashing (which has now come full circle). But Jeremy spoke in class and won the game with this drive and shot:

What happened that night is akin to an unknown hero severing the head of a zombie antagonist. Knicks point guards have been mostly zombies for at least a decade, and even if Jeremy Lin’s prolific run only lasts a month, it is better than the Knicks have seen in years.

Witness the zombies that have inhabited the Knicks point guard position:

Walt Frazier, Michael Ray Robinson, Richie Guerin, and Mark Jackson can take solace: Jeremy Lin is fighting back the Knick Zombie Point Guards and doing it well.

Snow Report: Zombies in Steamboat Springs

Posted: February 12, 2012 by sportinglife76 in Lifestyle
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With flocks of snowboarders seeking the skate park or surf in pursuit of their usual winter adrenaline fix, it’s time to accept that something is amiss this winter. Unless you are a zombie, this is not hard to do for anyone visiting ski resorts in California, Colorado, Utah…and it’s easy to see if you look to unexpected victims like Bogus Basin, ID, which has lost an estimated $2 million with a record-late start of January 19.

I’m an avid skier, and since I live in the northeast I try to save some vacation time so I can get ski days (and hopefully powder days) out west. This year, of course, has been complicated by record bad years up and down the Rockies and throughout California.

Now anyone spending multiple days amid beautiful mountains (even if they are mostly snow barren) can’t ask for too much pity, and that’s not what this is about. This is about the no-snow winter afoot in 2011/2012, and how people are either dealing with it or denying it.

Right after New Year’s I visited Colorado and found strange things awaiting me. Vail’s famous Back Bowls were dirt and gravel, and there were places on the front side with the kind of ice you don’t normally see outside of the Northeast. In retrospect, I know see that my visit coincided with Vail commissioning snowdances from Southern Ute tribesman, which is apparently becoming a go-to-practice in this desperate winter.

After the disappointment at Vail we drove north in shirtsleeves, windows down, bound for Steamboat Springs. Nothing quite like a January springtime in the mountains.

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