You’re being watched. Spies are everywhere, monitoring your every move. They go where you go, tap into your private conversations. They try to invade your thoughts and if you’re out of earshot they’ll be reading your lips.
If you make a living watching sports, you’ll see a lot of silly things perpetrated by fans and players and broadcasters and rules makers. Well, I don’t make shit watching sports, in fact, I pay dearly, for cable and tickets and t-shirts that bulge from every drawer in the house and autographed footballs that get donated to poor people by accident … and so the silliness I see leads to anger and frustration and unheard screams for logic and common sense and mature adult behavior.
Ban the bottom-of-the-TV-screen sports ticker. Everyone has a smartphone, they can get scores anytime they want, they get alerts every minute about the teams and players they care about, so enough already with the endless scroll that clutters up every freakin’ sports broadcast. ESPN used to only show scores of other games twice an hour and that was okay but now it’s a non-stop distraction that simply disrupts the game for people with razor-thin attention spans like me. I also believe that the non-stop score/news ticker is an insidious communist mind game that can hypnotize some and convince others that world-altering news is going to scroll by at any second. The sports ticker is causing mental instability and the general breakdown of society.