Pabulum

But what about the children? Think of my children before you talk about all the horrible things I've done.

Normally I'm a fount of sympathy for anybody and everybody, and I won't go so far to the other extreme this time as to say "you deserve it" (because really, no one does), but I'm having trouble mustering up any of my considerable sympathetic faculties for Bill Romanowski, one of the more repellent figures in the last fifty years of sports, if not of just plain everything for all time. My favorite part of the article is this quote on the second page:

Romanowski says speculation about his drug use even reached his young son.

"I had...a little boy who looks up to his dad and he said, 'Dad, do you do drugs?' That one hurt more than anything," he says.

To his credit (and contrary to the title of the post, but I couldn't resist), Romo doesn't place any blame on those whose speculation reached his son (although he doesn't actually say he doesn't, either; how he feels in that regard is an unknown as far as this article is concerned), but beyond the health problems, in this instance, I am glad to say to Bill Romanowski, "You deserve it." It deserves to hurt when your son asks if you did drugs, because you did (along with a host of other, more repugnant things, to boot).

And yes, I apologize for the slightness and "so what?" factor of this post, but as I'm sure is entirely transparent, I couldn't exactly have two Saturday Screenshot posts in a row. And when someone's gotta be thrown to the lions for no reason but vanity, I can think of no one better than Bill Romanowski.

Monday Dolphin Blogging

I didn't see a single snap, attending instead a birthday party for my newly three-year-old niece, and the concrete canyons of New York City and the NFL's exclusive deal with DirecTvil conspiring to require me to watch any Dolphins game not aired in New York live at a bar or miss it entirely. But hey, Dora the Explorer was at the party, so it wasn't a total loss.

But man, 27-24. It looked like a good one that I'm sad to have missed. I still don't want to get too excited, but clearly these Dolphins are going to be a lot better than anyone predicted. They showed they can hang to the bitter end in a loss last week, and now they showed they can actually win those nailbiters. I don't want to say they have a shot at actually making a run for the playoffs yet, but it's certainly a possibility now, which is way more than I ever expected. At the very least, unlike last season, this one should be worth watching as something more than a test of my character.

One final note: I was never what you'd call a Wannstedt apologist, but neither did I decry him with the vehemence of so many. But wow, do I hate that guy now. Wins and losses aside, the difference in just the attitude and carriage of this team in only three games (and even in the post-Wannstedt games last season, the win over the Patriots being just the highlight) is astounding. I'm now convinced that Wannstedt drained the life out of this team and everyone on it. I can only imagine what they may have been able to accomplish in those few years he managed to coach them to respectable results if someone else had been in charge.