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When we hate cheating…and following the rules
Imagine if Mitt Romney got caught stuffing ballot boxes in 2012. Well, not actually Mitt, but staff. Volunteers, actually. You’d be pissed, right? That’s serious, land his ass in jail stuff. Now imagine that election law only says that it is against the law to stuff ballot boxes. It doesn’t say what it means or…
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Why Can’t I Get My Kid To the Bus On Time?
I get up early. I shower. I wake her up. We eat breakfast. We do this every single day. So why do we fail at this one task: actually getting to the bus stop on time? It shouldn’t be that hard, really. And yet it really is the hardest part of the day. Every morning.…
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How the 2014 Super Bowl should effect the draft
If this Super Bowl has taught us anything, it is that the cult of the quarterback needs to end. Like John Elway and Tom Brady can attest: your team may have the best quarterback, but that doesn’t mean you’ll win. In fact, history doesn’t side with the better quarterback, but with the better team. Here’s…
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The Convenience of Lying
We lie. All the time. We lie to cover our mistakes. We lie to make ourselves look or feel better. We lie. Even when we should know better, we lie anyway. But worse than the simple lies or the squirm-out-of-personal-trouble lies, is the lie we write down for posterity because admitting the truth would be…
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For Stonum, Steep Learning Curve for Blown Chances
Maybe when you are a sports fan, hearing that an athlete got drunk doesn’t register as the worst offense ever. That he got behind the wheel of a car should be shocking, but it isn’t even surprising. So when an extremely talented football player was arrested in 2008 for drunk driving, it really didn’t register.…
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Mark Sanchez and the Handling of Quarterbacks
The world of sports, like religion, is often treated as black and white. Fans often think of players and coaches as either “good” or “lousy” and tactics as “right” and “wrong”. In this world, when a coach’s approach is different from how others might go about it, most are quick to offer criticism. It goes…
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8 Things the church could learn about itself from the NFL Draft
I love the NFL Draft. Anyone that has been around me in March and April over the last few years knows that I get pumped for this crazy ritual. I record the whole thing, try to follow along and keep track of where players go. I get into the lives of these guys and what…