I just heard a rumor that the MPD is quietly ramping up for possible riots tonight after the NCAA championship game. Looks like it's pop-tarts and some under-the-bed time tonight.
If there are riots the police should wade in and beat the fuck out of anyone rioting. Use dogs and fire hoses as well. And of course shooting rubber bullets like there's no tommorrow.
I suggest you put on a suit of medieval knightly armour, get on a horse, grab a shield, lance and longsword, and go out into the middle of the rioters and start splitting skulls. Hey, it'd make a change and be somewhat newsworthy in tomorrow's papers. And the armour might actually keep you alive if someone tries to take you down with a .22 pistol. If you're lucky it might even stop or deflect a 9mm pistol round. Anything over that though and you SOL. Still it would be interesting.
Shoes, I know a great restaraunt down on third in an area of town the police will be worried. You should go get takeout!
The fact that people would riot over something as inconsequential and moronic as a fucking sporting event leaves me with little hope for the future of mankind. Besides, basketball has got to be the most boring sport on the planet next to golf and curling. The fact that idiots would riot over it is incomprehensible to me.
Basketball may be boring to YOU but its not a boring sport. Constant action. Unlike baseball and football.
Basketball is boring. Oh wait....the tall man just made another basket!!! Now hockey is a sport. It's fast paced, lots of action, and when a goal is scored you know it's important. Plus, in what other sport does the referee just stand back and watch two players beat the shit out of each other without trying to stop it? If there's no blood on the ice, it ain't worth watching.
I been to hockey games and that is boring. Scores that are like 1-2 or 0-1 or a big game with 3-4. When you see hockey highlights...that's it! All the rest was slow and boring. And fights don't always happen.
I love football. Basketball: I can take it or leave it. Lot of action and a constant pace, but it just doesn't grab me like football does. Unless my kids are playing. My daughter's 5th grade team was the league champs this year. My son's 4th grade team won 2nd Place in the tournaments. IMHO no sport is worth rioting over. In the end, it's just a game. Sportsmanship. That's what it should be about.
Meh. I've never really got the whole obsession with depicting superheros as wearing their underwear outside their trousers. It seems, well, rather gay. And as anyone who has seen The Incredibles knows, a cape is just asking for trouble.
Actually, there was a one man riot around midnight. Die hard U of M fan in a bar started raising a ruckus. Security escorted him out, he got in his car and started doing doughnuts in the parking lot. It was all coming along quite nicely until somebody came out and shot his ass.
Well, he apparently aimed the car at the security guard who had escorted him out. Kind of hard to shoot him in the ass.
Constant but tediously repetitive action with remarkably little strategy involved and with terrible teamwork being routine. Of all the major sports, basketball suffers by far the most from the SportsCenter effect of players playing to get on the highlight reel. There's no excuse for most professional and major college players not shooting 90%+ on free throws--practicing at the line is by far the easiest way for any scorer to improve productivity, and, with a few Dennis Rodman exceptions, it doesn't require that much practice to be that good at the line if you can shoot well enough to play at that level in the first place--but winning play simply isn't what the players want to do. There's no other major sport where players so routinely take actions--bad shot selection, failure to practice free throws, ball hogging, etc.--that hurt their teams. If you want to watch athletic displays devoid of meaningful competition, professional wrestling and figure skating are much more impressive than basketball, and if you want to watch athletes trying their hardest to win, basketball's really the bottom of the barrel.
