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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
see what sports does to you.
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BUT BUT BUT.... Sports are GREAT! They're what schools are built on nowadays.
They give us the ability to raise and "educate" kids all the way through college without the messy task of teaching them to read, write or count.
Without sports and academics being so closely related, the football coach wouldn't be able to live in a better house than the physics teacher and drive a new Mercedes while the history teacher drives to work in thier 5 year old Toyota.
But, since sports has so much stroke in our society, we're able to pump out college grads who can't make change once they realize only one out of 10,000 football stars ever makes a dime in the "pros" once college is over, while they're later working at Mickey D's.
Luckily though, some nice Japanese students graduated and designed the cash register that tells the moron who was a jock in high school how much money to give the customer in return. He still has trouble counting it out of course.
My father in law and his son were talking about how stupid the kids at the drive through were one day, and a few minutes later were talking about some high school kid who ran a football a jillion yards.
They asked me "Whaddya' think about that. huh?!" with glee in their voices. I replied "You ever wonder why the Asians are kicking our asses in technology?"
They just stared at me like a cow looking at a new gate.
No, I wasn't a jock. But, I fix a lot of their computers now.