So I hungout with a few hundred rednecks the other day

The title is slightly misleading but exciting, insulting and often provacative headlines get people to read your stuff. So ya.

But I did.  I went to the Mesquite rodeo for the first time Friday evening.  Despite living in Texas for handfulla years I have never done the typical Texan thing and seen a rodeo show or seen the fabled  think of "cowboy."

I have some family in town and when they think of Texas they cows, guns and rednecks.  The rodeo gave them two out of three and guns could have possibly been in a few of the pickups I saw outside. Shotgun little buddy.

Not neccesarily like this, but close

It started out pretty well.  The amazing smell of horse and cow manure, the clacking of shit kickers (cowboy boots), pretty ladys, annoying children and many more southern delicacies.

I now hate children again after a kid proceeded to kick my head after he got way to excited about a dumb rodeo clown.

After my family and I got situated the rodeo announcer (had no idea what that guy was saying) asked the croud to join him in a prayer to jesus christ.  Now I don't hate this idea but the way he led up to the prayer is what annoyed me.  He said, "we live in the greatest nation ya'll where we can practice any relgion blah blah blah blah now lets pray to the one true god jesus christ". What the ....

So not a great start for moi.

Anyway a few fellas did some bareback horse riding or whatever, which was pretty tight.  Only maybe two of em lasted the 8 seconds to get a score or whatever.  Like this other events continued to happen with cowboys mostly eating dust.  It was entertaing but you know it wasn't mind blowing. 

The rodeo clowns themselves are a joke (pun intended).  Mesquite rodeo is graced by a fella named Leesle Harris or some shade of redneck name. 

I <3 clowns. Not really I just wanted to say "<3"

He shelled out quite a few "oh my god my wife is so fat, ugly, dumb" jokes.  Got a couple giggles from the crowd but it was "ight".  My family could barely understand the announcer so when redneck Harris came out they were finished, and by that I mean Texans will forever be considered slow folk in their eyes. 

Oh well, I love texas. 

It got pretty entertaining when little kids had to hold on for dear life when they rode out on sheep. 

Those kids were freaked out and maybe 2 of em lasted 5 feet.

God bless the rodeo for that little piece of entertainment cause in a way I felt like it was pay back for the annoying child from earlier.

Overall, I'd say the rodeo is an entertaining one time thing that any person who lives in Texas must attend.  However it does nothing but push forward the stereotype that we are slow, republican rednecks. But I'll allow it cause it's southern culture and with everybody stressing change these days, it's good to see that some things never change, especially children.

If I offended any rednecks reading this.  Well I am terribly sorry that...phew that was close.  What I meant to say is that I don't give a ....

Sometimes Judge Judy really gets me.

You know what really grinds my gears.....

Thought 1:
Whenever I see the bottom scroller on ESPN and it displays the times and teams of future games I always end up throwing up a little bit in my mouth. I am of course talking about the audacity of ESPN to predict "America's Vote". After showing the game they display a poll that apparently shows the completely opinion and knowledge of all Americans and who they think is going to win this particular game. For example in the Champ Sports Bowl: Florida State vs Wisconsin, America voted 82.3% in favor of Florida State winning this game. I have nothing against taking fan polls to see who they think is going to win the game but when you put the name of "America's Vote" it makes me feel like ESPN thinks far to highly of them and that they know all and are the end all of all things sports if they feel like they have the power to deem who "America" thinks is going to win a college football game.

Thought 2:
The freakin BCS. Ever since its induction it had caused controversy after controversy. Whether it was auburn going undefeated in a tough SEC a couple of years back or if it was the Texas Longhorns who beat Oklahoma on neutral field by 10 points but still do not end up in the National Championship game. The complicated and "intricate" way that the BCS calculating is honestly unkown to 99% of college football fans yet this computation determines their teams future. Now what about florida. They lost to an unranked Ole Miss team at the time at their own house. Now that is down right embarassing. If you are the reigning champs and you loose at home I think you are automatically out. Texas lost at an incredibally rowdy and fierce atmosphere in Lubbock on an amazing last second play, yet none of this goes into the calculations for a teams BCS ranking. Its complete crap and I couldn't be more disgusted. Hopefully the president elect does push around some of his weight as he said he will to push for a College playoff system. Just like the nike ad says, "Success isn't calculated, it is earned." Nuf said.

Thought 3:
Yankee haters and of teams who spend money to improve their team. This blind hatred of the Yankees for dishing out money to free agents to help improve their team is utter nonsense. The haters primary argument is that the Yankees are "buying championships." First and foremost each and every team is paying their players to win and put up numbers that will bring them to the World Series, so every team technically is trying to "buy a championship." Second if my team had the money to bring in star free agents but chose not to because they would rather develop young an inexperienced players I would be furious. What a joke. All this hatred is simple jealousy because people want to scream in outcry because they don't have the money flexibility the yankees do thanks to their glorious histroy and prestigous brand name. This has led to various small markey GM's to beg for a salary cap. The brewers general manage Doug Melvin whined right after the yankees signed Texiera about needing a salary cap because they couldn't compete with the money the yankees are spending. All I hear is waaaah waaaah waaaaah! Come on, seriously it is called survival of the fittest and whatever the yankees are doing is completely under the rules.

That's what really grinds my gears...right now.