In his 2012 cd release “Analog Man”, Joe Walsh sings about being an “analog man in a digital world”. I can relate, Joe.
Here I go touting another disc of music. You’d think K-Tel had me on the pay role.
On to other matters.
If I hear another personage ask me if I can believe what is happening on the national political scene with Donald Trump leading the polls in the Republican camp, I think I will get in the floor and do a Curly move. That is Curly from The Three Stooges. You know when he’s laying on the floor kind of sideways and spins around. That is what I want to do when folks ask me about the wind bag that is Donald Trump. Yes. Yes. And Yes. I can believe this Trump phenomena with ease.
Look folks. There is a old saying. There are many old sayings. And I am afraid we are losing touch with honest, earnest, sincere communication to an alarming degree by losing touch of some old sayings. Okay, I’m off the subject a bit..but I am not…this will come back around to Trump in a few minutes.
Many of you know I exercise on some equipment in our basement and I watch television as I do it. Sunday I was putting in my elliptical paces watching the NFL Network. It was Sunday. The NFL season is almost upon us and I know most of the NFL Network’s on-air talent are taking time off before the onslaught that is the NFL Network…I tire of it all easily…runs full steam. So why was I watching? I had heard earlier in the day that legendary player and broadcaster Frank Gifford had died. I was hoping to see or hear something on the NFL Network that was worthy of viewership. I should have started watching my Hill Street Blues box set again.
Frank Gifford was an icon. He sounded like a diplomat that knew all there was to know about his subject matter. Respectful. Fun. Genuine. Serious. When Vince Lombardi died I know that if Frank Gifford had been on the air that day….and maybe he was…he would not have said going into commercial: “When we return we’ll check the temperature around the league as we remember Coach Vince Lombardi.” That was the poor guy on the NFL said about Frank Gifford, the real King of Monday Night Football.
Check the temperature? Son, we just lost an icon…and you want to check the temperature around the league?
My dear wife, Carrie, often gets frustrated with me for taking up for sports broadcasters that say some rather obvious, simplistic, and maybe even really dumb stuff. I have a pat answer for her. I have been behind the mic calling games on the radio more often than I remember. I feel I can understand, somewhat. I always tell her: “Yes, I know he could have done better…but he’s gotta say something.”
Don’t DON’T DO NOT…talk about the temperature of the league when you lose a Frank Gifford. That is, in the vernacular of my old radio partner, Gus Stephenson, STUPID TAX. I know I probably have shoes older than the youngster commentating in that lonely NFL Network studio. I don’t care. The school of journalism he came from probably took his poster off the hallway display when they heard that. I hope they did. As for the NFL Network, they need to do a better job of taking care of their own.
I mentioned this on twitter. No one could say: “There’s time out on the field, we’ll be back…” like Frank Gifford could. You wanted him back. You needed him back. We need him now!
Back to Trump.
Old Saying: You reap what you sow. Biblical saying. Look it up.
Donald Trump is the train wreck many people want to watch. He is our actor/politician on television. He is a reality television star on a very large stage. Folks who watch the Kardashians and their train wreck on television want to see that on the political stage. That is why he is so popular. That is also very scary. There is a great deal of train wreck TV out there. Be careful.
Add the reality television candidate to a field of politicians whom have and will have low “approval ratings” until a catastrophe hits the country and folks start looking for leaders again when these folks realize they are the ones who don’t know their butts from a hole in the ground…that would be reality setting in.
There was a feeling of trepidation from some that thought the actor Ronald Reagan would not be able to hold his own. I don’t think Reagan would look at Trump and say “Well, here we go again…” No. I think he would say “Get this clown off the stage.”
Speaking the rights.
Danny Johnson