The Longer Arm of Big Brother

We live in an age where the government has, for the most part, made
jaded a large number of constituents. I'm speaking of your local and
state leaders and all others involved. For every good politician that you
can name, I'll name five who weren't so good. As a matter of fact, for
every good one you can name, I can name five who were as crooked as
pecan tree limbs (they are rarely very straight in case you were
wondering). Think of it - they use cell phones and ride in limos to go to
places where they could walk in minutes - at taxpayers' expense. They fill
their gas tanks with money put there by the taxpayer. They say that they
will do 'this' or 'that' if elected; many, however, don't follow through
on their promises. Do you need any examples? LOL! It seems as if the only
thing that everyone can agree with every year is to give themselves
raises. It's not hard to realize just how we arrived at a point where
used car salesmen and politicians are thought of as one and the same.
(No offense there, any of you used car salesmen out there). As a whole,
these guys and girls can't take care of their own jobs with efficiency,
so why would they want to branch out to handle something that they know
nothing about?

I say that to preface my disdain of the government's recent involvement
with baseball and their future involvement with football. They sniffed
around baseball for quite some time before they began threatening
baseball regarding players who may or may not have used steroids. As far
as I can tell, there is no reason for the government to get involved here.
What good can come from this? These people, who can't even pronounce the
players' names correctly, or even handle their government-related jobs in
a decent capacity, are now overseeing something well beyond their limits.
It is blatantly obvious that the government is hoping that people will
view them differently, or even more accurately, just view them at all.
And this is my two cents here - but it's all about attention. Just watch
how 'serious' our government is about 'handling' steroids.

There are blips now, here and there, of the government sniffing around
football. Heck, they did it to baseball and 'no one' was overtly pissed
off at them, so why not shoot at a much larger target? The NFL is, has
been for some time, and will be a big-profit operation. Let's see in the
coming days just how excited our own government is at taking pot-shots at the
league. If it gets them on the front page, I can assure you they will do
it.

This is truly something to be concerned about, NFL fans. These people
can't manage their own offices and yet they want to have a hand in
something that was so great LONG BEFORE THEY CAME SNIFFING AROUND.

I'm not saying that the NFL doesn't have steroid issues on some level.
What I am saying, however, is that I hope that the NFL will truly fight to
keep any issues "in - house" and refuse publicly to allow "Big Bro" to
get involved. At the least, go screaming and kicking!

They intensely and zealously pursued baseball. Now I see them sniffing
around football, and it doesn't really relate to steroids necessarily. Now ,if they would only use the same intensity in seeing that gas prices are lowered, I  wouldn't be riding a freakin' scooter. Note to NFL - Keep Big Bro at a distance.