Sports Center is at times genius

As you may know football has a two week break from now until the Super Bowl.

I was watching Sports Center this morning and the let off the show with this story about Tom Brady. Apparently he was caught by the paparazzi taking flowers to his super model girlfriend. This story is, of course, of no significance to anyone ever. However this is the story Sports Center was leading off with. The two host were debating what kind of flowers it was and whether or not that was the best choice of flowers. the even went to split screen to bring in another commentator's opinion. Apparently starting with this and debating the flowers was all staged (as in they understood the ridiculousness of it). Because after a good 90 seconds of this they cut away to someone else who says, "And this is the story we are going to be going with the next few days until we are able to talk about football again." Hilarious.

White men can't jump....

... but they can jump better than midgets.

At UTA the offer a basketball class as an athletic credit. You learn drills and plays and fundamentals and such. There is a midget in my class. He's about 4 feet tall or so and has a head the size of a basketball. He can't possibly be good. I'm going to feel bad every time I block his shot. It's like defending against a retarded person. But for some reason he has the notion that he can play basketball. So that may lead you to wonder if he is an exceptionally athletic or coordinated midget. Well maybe, but that doesn't matter when you have arms like a tyrannosaurus rex.

Conversation of the Day

I went to 7-11 early this morning, about 3:30ish, in need of some Gatorade. There's an old woman who works there that time of morning. By old I mean about 70 or so. Now you have to assume that a 70 year old woman working the grave yard shift at 7-11 must be a bit crazy to begin with. I grab my Gatorade and approach the counter where she is there to check me out. On a side note she talks pretty slow, or she talks on an average pace for a 70 year old lady.

old lady - How are you today?

me - I'm fine, how are you?

old lady - I'm doing good. Do you know much about history?

me - Huh?

old lady - Do you know much about history?

me - Huh? Um... I know a bit. Why?

old lady - Let me ask you... Can you tell me the most important historical event ever in the history of Utah?

me - Huh? Utah? ... Yeah okay. I would probably say when Brigham Young led the Mormons from Pennsylvania.

old lady - nope.

*awkward pause*

me - okay, um, what is it then.

old lady - well is that all you got?

Keep in mind I would like to just pay for my stuff and leave now and not have to answer random obscure state trivia. And I really can't think of anything more important to a state than when a mass of people came to found it.

me - yeah, that's all I got.

old lady - It's the "Golden Spike". You know, the railroads. East meets west.

I know what she talking about, when the connected the first transcontinental railroad. And right now, at this point in my life, while I'm just trying to buy some Gatorade, there is nothing less significant than when they connect the first transcontinental railroad.

old lady - Of course the spike isn't still there anymore, they got it in a museum now.