Stonebeam 22: One Man with Courage

Story Shot 22, by Brian R. Wright  PDF Version, 09 February 2021

I wasn’t going to watch the Super Bowl this year.

For one thing, the remote on my TV doesn’t seem to be working, and I can’t switch between computer screen emulation and the TV signal. And another, I’m never sure sans cable if I can pick up the channel from the antenna.

Mainly, though, I felt that league officials surrendered their balls and the balls of their players and coaches to the political correctness of covtardia… all year… in spades!

C’mon, how effing ridiculous is it to mask up players and coaches, and empty stadiums except for a few masked “privileged!!” The mask-free players on the field breathe and sweat and intersect bloodied body parts…

…but then they’re supposed to sit on the bench in ill-fitting ear loop zombie disguise to impede their breathing and destroy brain cells, and occasionally jabber with fellow jocksters. Then think about the coaches!

Good coaches have to speak, yell often, their orders and instructions.

And HEAR what other coaches are telling them.

And, of course, the players have to HEAR them, not some mumbled gobbledegook.

After a few games of the mask protocol, too many coaches were ignoring the irrational rules and either letting their masks hang low or losing their masks altogether. I remember some of them being fined, like, $50,000 by league pussy-enforcers.

If any of the coaches made a stink, we sure didn’t hear it from Pharmedia.

What of masks in general? Continue reading