I get your admonition about the foul language and that we should set an example for our kids.
I, myself, am guilty.
Should we set a higher standard for ourselves?
Maybe.
But, maybe, the notion that we are "above" such vulgarity may be holding us back from winning the smashmouth part of smashmouth football?
I like that we can engage a "common people" parlance that is more universally understood and speaks to our passion. Academics is our head, while sports is our heart. Frank words, spoken in the heat moment, become a rhetoric of pathos, which is apart from logic and ethos.
One thing I do have a hard time accepting is seeing adults on $C's sideline who appear to have one job: Twirling a f'ing towel as though possessed and enthralled. Such pathos, is, well, pathetic.
BTW- It never occurred to me that kids may be reading these pages. I wholeheartedly agree that W4C's wit and eloquence should make us all proud. As in this case, yes, indeed, Avi., the perfect final words on our Hundred Year Trojan War.
I like your comment, and hasten to note the clear distinction between spoken and written. With all the pathos in the Western Hemisphere, one still can avoid typing the foul stuff —pixels live forever— far more easily than one who utters them.
President F'ing Camacho.
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I get your admonition about the foul language and that we should set an example for our kids.
I, myself, am guilty.
Should we set a higher standard for ourselves?
Maybe.
But, maybe, the notion that we are "above" such vulgarity may be holding us back from winning the smashmouth part of smashmouth football?
I like that we can engage a "common people" parlance that is more universally understood and speaks to our passion. Academics is our head, while sports is our heart. Frank words, spoken in the heat moment, become a rhetoric of pathos, which is apart from logic and ethos.
One thing I do have a hard time accepting is seeing adults on $C's sideline who appear to have one job: Twirling a f'ing towel as though possessed and enthralled. Such pathos, is, well, pathetic.
BTW- It never occurred to me that kids may be reading these pages. I wholeheartedly agree that W4C's wit and eloquence should make us all proud. As in this case, yes, indeed, Avi., the perfect final words on our Hundred Year Trojan War.
I like your comment, and hasten to note the clear distinction between spoken and written. With all the pathos in the Western Hemisphere, one still can avoid typing the foul stuff —pixels live forever— far more easily than one who utters them.