50's forecasted here in Wisconsin for the weekend.
It makes us all smile around in this part of the Country.
Here's a stunner...
Jut received my latest issue of Sport's Illustrated. In the cover story it features the rise and fall of Kirby Puckett, of the baseball's Minnesota Twins.
After we find out about how he had affairs outside his marriage, which according to author Frank Deford, happens all the time to these pampered atheletes, Puckett, over the course of years, chokes his wife, puts a gun to her head, and cuts down the bathroom door with a power saw, after she locks herself into the room.
But if that's not bad enough, Deford goes onto to make this statement:
Even with war hanging over us, warriors, our most traditional heroes, are not so romantic anymore, not in an armed force of gas masks, and smart bombs. Ah, but the athletes: they who, as of yore, simply achieve physically, naturally (is there any sweeter phrase than natural athlete?), as human beings, flesh and blood.
Now... imagine your a member of the armed forces, sitting in the sands of Afghanistan, or Kuwait, waiting to put your life on the line to defend freedom and honor, read this sort of drivel in S.I.?
I think Frank Deford needs to take a reality check.
Give me an armed forces member, putting his/her life on the line to defend freedom, any day of the week.
Amazing!
Don't know whether you heard but my youngest will be enlisting on 3/24 in the National Guard.