In what is surely Karma leaving its mark on the events of today, a strip club is getting ready to set up shop next to a church in Hyartsville, VA. The club’s owner tried to be serious when explaining;
One has to wonder if the AFA is going to lend their support to preventing the club’s move, or would the club have to cater to gays to get that kind of attention.
Either way, that’s it for me today.
More tomorrow.
Just to get it out of my system, and to eat a taste or two of humble pie, Mark Brunell has done better than I expected him to this year quarterbacking the Redskins. To be fair, since Coach Gibbs has decided to put the team on the back of Clinton Portis it is harder to criticize the play of Brunell.
He’s expected not so much to win as he is to not lose. A situation that would have suited the soon-to-be-former-Redskin Patrick Ramsey just as well. Ramsey still has that gun of an arm and the strong legs to make plays for a team that is willing to let him. Gibbs yanking him early in the season has given Ramsey the time he needed to calm down and understand the game. He should take advantage of this weekend, if he gets the start, and show the other teams (Cardinals, Jets, Chiefs, etc.) his ability to lead a talented team.
More later.
Like I said yesterday, this is a great time to be a Memphis sports fan. Even the Grizzlies pulled one out of the hat and shut down Kobe last night. And sure they only won by a point, but it still counts as a win.
In my humble opinion, the Memphis Redbirds are the ones to thank for all of this. It was them building a state of the art baseball stadium downtown, and putting fans in the seats with great games that got the attention of the sports world. They put pride back into the city’s sports fans, gave us all a sense that the Tigers could win too if we rooted hard enough. And their success showed the NBA that Memphis would support a professional team.
Of course the NBA raped the city on the new stadium deal. In the process setting up an unheard of first-refusal clause that allows the Grizzlies to control every entertainment event that comes to town, and leaves the city with two mostly vacant, mostly worthless arenas; the Mid-South Coliseum and the Memphis Pyramid. The Grizzlies only guaranteed they would be in town until the first set of bond payments come due. After that they can leave, and not pay the city enough to cover the light bill on what would be empty arena number three.
Still, the Grizzlies have a winning record and FedEx Forum no longer gets my tax dollars. It’s all good for me.
More later.
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