As busy Dads., we still make time to post some amazing content here on the EOT Blog. That said, I often have thought tangents I’d love to share with our readers but they don’t quite make a complete blog post. So to ensure these nuggets of brilliance don’t get lost on the world, I’ll start posting my “This and That” post here every week. I hope you enjoy it.
The Big Rotten Apple
Manning Shakes the Hand of the Better QB. AP
Don’t get the title wrong: I love New York. But what I don’t like about it is its sports team. Outside of the Jets (who have the second best football uniforms in the NFL), I despise Gotham’s sports franchises. Like the rest of America, they are the Evil Empire and whenever my lowly San Diego teams get a chance to beat them, well, it’s extra special.
That’s just what the San Diego Chargers did to the floundering New York Giants this past Sunday. In what San Diegans have come to call the “Rivers/Manning Bowl”, the Chargers got the last laugh with a thrilling, come-from-behind victory on the shoulders of quarterback Phillip Rivers. Despite looking like hell on offense at time, Rivers again showed why he’s a better than the junior Manning. Rivers now has more fourth quarter, come-from-behind wins than any other quarterback, sans Brett Favre.
Now, Manning has a Super Bowl ring and Rivers doesn’t. We’ll see how that all ends up when their careers come to an end.
Motorola Droid: Who cares?
This ain't no iPhone folks!
Perhaps because I am such an iPhone fan boy and early adopter, I don’t see the fascination with this new smartphone. It certainly looks cool, and it’s on the more robust Verizon Wireless network, but it doesn’t even come close the the iPhone in just about every aspect. All the hype this week seems to be nothing more than fluff and it’s getting old fast.
At a time when over 10% of Americans are out of work, is this what we should be focusing on?
Conversations at Wal-Mart
I stopped by the world’s biggest retailer this past weekend to pick ups some cheap undershirts.
While there, I didn’t see any of the carnage your find on the website The People of Wal-Mart, but I did eavesdrop on everyday conversations happening there. They were enlightening and probably closer to what the average American thinks. Most of them were talking about jobs, the economy and the recent terrorist attack at Fort Hood.
While those of us on the coasts and in big cities may scoff at the notion, the shoppers at Wal-Mart are much closer to the sentiment of everyday Americans than we are. It’s something we often forget. If you want to understand how middle America feels, go shopping there and just listen.
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