Growing up a sports fan in the Boston area I have read a lot of columns by Bill Simmons over the years. One column that I can distinctly remember deals with rules that a sports fan must follow. One rule stands out among these:
12. After your team wins a championship, they immediately get a five-year grace period: You can't complain about anything that happens with your team (trades, draft picks, salary-cap cuts, coaching moves) for five years. There are no exceptions. For instance, the Pats could finish 0-80 over the next five years and I wouldn't say a peep. That's just the way it is. You win the Super Bowl, you go on cruise control for five years. Everything else is gravy.
The reason I bring this rule up now is due to the fact that Barack Obama went on an apologizing tour all over Europe last week. He felt the United States has been too arrogant and too dismissive. The White House felt that this might quell the anti American sentiment that is felt by some in Europe. Well they are violating a new rule that is now being laid down.
Rule 1- For every soldier that a country loses in defense of your country, that country gets a 1 year grace period from all bitching and moaning.
Most stats put US deaths during WWII at around 400,000. This means that France, Great Britian, and most of Europe have to shut the hell up for the next 400,000 years. If you don't want to help us in our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, fine. But don't start whining because you feel you weren't consulted enough. Just be grateful Bush didn't clothesline Jacque Chirac and then make out with his wife.
The only thing more embarrassing than a whining continent that this country freed, is a President who feels he has to apologize to those bitches.
There is one way to get out of this rule. The next time your country is threatened or attacked, deal with it yourself. We all know you want. A 4 crew team of Somali pirates could topple France. So just do us a favor and keep it down for the next couple hundred milleniums. Oh, and Obama...man up.
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Man up would require him having some stones...which of course he doesn't. Meshelle keeps them in a mason jar on the nightstand just to remind him who's really running the show.
ReplyDeletegood rule. "deal with it yourself." from here on out, let's look out for number one for a while - we have some pretty serious issues going on here. and seriously, send a team of SEALS to those pirates...my money is on the SEALS any day and twice on sunday.
ReplyDeleteI'd put my money on actual seals trained at the aquarium against those pirates.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what are we waiting for?