After the tragedy of the law vs. business school football showdown tonight, I felt compelled to comment on some possible trouble I see lurking in the future of American business. Or perhaps the present really. Who knows?
Anyway, long story short, we had a game tonight, and as mentioned, it was against the business school. On the drive following a play where one of the fatties on the biz school team lowered his shoulder on a teammate of mine, we decided to run a sweep to the left. I proceeded to make a block like so:
Note that I was being as gentle as you could be for football, as this was only an intramural game and nothing to get excited about. But I found the following quote by my adversary quite disturbing:
“Hey there’s no blocking!”
What…
the…
f**k?!
My reaction looked something like this:
I really wanted to call this guy an offensive name of some sort, but also did not want to embarrass myself too much, so I was able to retrain myself and say something only mildly stupid. If I may say, there is no way this guy played any sport growing up, casually or in an organized setting, that was not golf, tennis, or badminton (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But anyway, back to my main point.
Regardless of the fact that there was blocking throughout the entire game and all season long, and the fact that they probably had the most annoying sideline in the league, not to mention the trucking of our guy on just the previous drive, or the fact that I was being very gentle with my blocking (Footnote: this guy was maybe 125 pounds, and standing straight up. Excessive force was by no means used on my part, because this was probably the only guy I think I’ve ever met on a football field that I potentially could have hurt.), I just want to know one thing.
Have we gone soft America? Are we really at the point where just minutes after somebody gets trucked on the other team, that we are really going to whine and complain and moan about the softest block this side of a girls’ powderpuff game?! Are we that soft and/or forgetful?! Really?! Is this the face of American business?
Sweet mercy, America, what happened?!
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