Happy Easter!
"He just broke through the line and sidestepped a linebacker. He's got some green in front of him, 3 more yards for the first down. The safety's coming in hard. He leaps! And OH WHAT A HIT!"
"Wow, Jim, he really took a beating on that one. You have to admire the effort of sacrificing his body for those extra yards. They're going to bring the chains out, but it looks like he got the first down."
"Hold on a minute, Neil, it doesn't look like he's getting up. The trainers are running out onto the field to check him out. Let's go to the replay to see what happened."
"OOOO, the hit is clean, but he comes down at a funny angle. This does not look good. I've seen plenty of those in my days of playing, and that's almost for sure a torn medial lemniscus."
"I think you're right. His whole body just crumpled as the safety came down on him. This could be pretty serious. You hate to see the star player taken out so early in the season."
"You're right, Jim, I bet right now he doesn't even know what position he plays. Or even what state he plays that position in."
"Too true, Neil. This is going to cause repercussions throughout the entire league. Such a young athlete... He won't even realize the effects of the vibrations caused by his absence for weeks to come."
"Just look at his face, you can tell he's in a lot of pain. He may not know exactly where he's feeling, but he sure knows something's hurting."
"One of the trainers has an ice pack on him. Hopefully that cold will soothe his pain some and stop further swelling of his lemniscus."
"This is such a tragedy. But to try to find some bright side, if that tear was just a little higher up, he'd wouldn't be feeling any pain at all. You gotta be thankful for what you do have sometimes."
When I was younger, my siblings and I used to get lots of candy twice a year: Halloween and Easter. The added benefit of that was that we all knew how to play poker and used our candy as chips. We'd ante jelly beans and raise a peep or two, but if you ever threw in a Cadbury Cream Egg, it was like going all in. And if someone ever called, so there were two cream eggs in the pot...it'd be like the last table with Phil Hellmuth calling Daniel Negreanu's all in on a nut flush.
I recently discovered the glory of Pandora. It's nice because I'm rarely in my car, but now I can listen to music all the time. I'm waiting for online TV to go mainstream. I know there is stuff now, but I mean just straight up streaming channels from NBC.com. Have you tried to watch stuff on there or on ABC's episode watcher? It's terrible. It's like the only thing I've found that can actually crash Firefox.
Remember when you'd get that giant chocolate bunny in your easter basket? The one that was like two or three pounds of solid milk chocolate? Every time you saw that, you were like, "Score!" You'd try to eat the whole thing in one sitting, thinking it was the greatest thing in the whole world. It would always go the same way:
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You'd think to yourself, "This is great!"
Next, you'd start munching on the head and neck.
"Mmmmmm, chocolate."
Soon, you'd be on to the shoulders.
"Starting to feel full, but this is all the chocolate I've ever wanted. I have to keep eating."
Then the body, but no more.
"Ugh. This doesn't taste good anymore. At all. I hate chocolate."
But you do the same thing next year. Like a moth to the flame.
It's because the next year, you're older and are sure that this time you can do it. No matter that you failed the past 5 years and actually had to get your stomach pumped last year, that was a fluke. This year will be different. This year will be THE year.
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