Patrick – Page 90 – They're Just Words

Posted on October 19, 2017October 18, 2017 by Patrick

She Never Strikes Up A Conversation On Her Own

She’s tall for someone in her profession and by most standards trim, but her overall appearance is a bit round. When we first met we were both a bit tentative, me awkwardly fumbling for something to say, her replying with mostly one-word answers. I remember in those early days, just wanting to make conversation, asking her who her favorite quarterback was, and she first said it was that old guy in Denver Peyton Manning, but when I asked her a second time she answered Russell Wilson, mentioning that she was from Seattle. I told her that I thought both picks were pretty weak, and she said, I’m not sure.

Posted on October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 by Patrick

College Football Playcalling Is Contagious, Now USC Is Sick

There’s a play-calling sickness in college football – football at every level, really – and no team is safe. It’s called the zone read and in a copycat football universe, it is infecting everything in its path. Its symptoms include: abandonment of traditional power running games, disasters in short yardage and goal-line situations, paralyzing playcalling predictability and silly, unforced turnovers. It’s affecting the health of college football, won’t you please help?

Posted on October 17, 2017October 14, 2017 by Patrick

We Need Better Exit Strategies

Say you’re in your late seventies, maybe eighty. You can still move around unassisted and you generally recognize the world and people around you; you remember where you put your socks and you know how to put them on. You pee in the bathroom and not in your pants. You go to bed as normal on a Thursday, and on Friday, you don’t wake up. Your heart just stops, there was no pain, no drama. As far as death and dying go, you just hit lotto, I mean, you’re dead, but you got lucky. Your body left but your dignity remained. No one gets that lucky in real life and the end for most of us, if our parents are an accurate indicator, will be a humiliating, debasing, bank-account-draining disaster that will terrorize our children and make a mockery of the life we aspired to make meaningful.