Posted on 02/03/2014 6:08:32 AM PST by Kaslin
Applying the lessons of the Super Bowl, NFL to real life.
What comes after XLVIII?
Is it XLIX or IL?
Except for cornerbacks in coverage.....
XLIX...
You don’t jump over symbols like that... except with the V vs X I guess.
VIII, IX, X
8,9,10
Get back to that in kids local sports leagues and school. Keep score!
XLIX. For the “minus one” (?) rule, the two numbers closest to each other are the ones to use.
In fact, it repeats the liberal mantra that the rich win because the poor lose. That there can be only one (or perhaps a very few) real winners.
There are 32 teams in the NFL. Only one can win the Super Bowl, with every other team presumably being "losers."
That is exactly the zero-sum view of economics liberalism uses to justify its efforts to make the economic system "more fair."
I dunno how closely we want to look for high-minded comparisons for job seekers and job holders. Let me offer a few more “rules” that come to mind immediately that young people would do well to keep in mind:
- A number of NFL players are quite simply completely used up physically until they can’t function as employees any more, at which point they are discarded. Many businesses in the U.S. have followed this philosophy as well for some number of decades now. You’ll be assigned somebody else’s work when they’re laid off, and if you don’t do that without complaint or error, you’ll be on the next layoff list yourself.
- Everybody in the world, not just the U.S., is somebody who might replace you at some point. Unlike the NFL, your employer will have to lie when he says that some Indian in India is better qualified to do the job you’ve been doing for five years, and therefore should be given your job via an H1-B visa.
EXCELLENT point. It’s a cruel thing indeed to scream at an eight year old that he and his team lost because they were lazy, didn’t play hard enough, weren’t smart enough, etc.
XLIX
The Broncos didn’t just lose. They were clobbered
Not fair. Every player should be an MVP. Like giving every little league player a trophy, win or lose.
Let’s talk again at superbowl 90.
XC?
Again, it skips over the “half decade” of the L just like “IX” skips over the V.
I kind of liked the reading of the Declaration of Independence. Wonder where they were going with that or if they even bothered to think about the part “ governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever a government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it....”
The lady singing the national anthem was pretty hot and also did a great job.
It will never happen!
You can never predict politics and history.
“Its a cruel thing indeed to scream at an eight year old that he and his team lost because they were lazy, didnt play hard enough, werent smart enough, etc.”
However, it is cruel *not* to let him know that the other team won because they played better, and the way to turn that around is through hard work.
Your statement is exactly the cruelty I described.
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