One Pharmacist’s View
Of Games & Stuff
Last weekend was one of those good weekends. For me anyhow. First, my Allen Mustang Football team was able to edge out a victory over longtime foe named Tishomingo. It was only by a point. The score was 20-19 in a slugfest that featured a few missed points after kicks and one kickoff with negative yardage. Made me remember and wish for a long ago Mustang football player, Eric Pierce.
Yes, Eric Pierce the grocery guy. He could also kick the football and in his day helped Allen win several games with his skill. We haven’t had that good a kicker since those days but I sure wish we could. The kicking game sometimes leaves us grasping for a victory. Hope the coach has somehow picked out a good kicker who would be practicing his kicks this week. He doesn’t even have to be a good grocer.
Other fairly good things included the two State Universities, OU and OSU managing to chew up a pair of double A schools. But fans weren’t exactly tickled pink over the two games. Much complaining over having to pay big ticket prices to watch these “staged” football games. And I would say the complaining is justified. Those of us who were stuck at home couldn’t watch our teams play on TV. Can’t really blame the TV guys for failing to set up their cameras for such games.
OU had it on Sooner Vision which I have on my computer. But due to old age and some degree of stupidity I kept trying to sign in with the wrong password. When I found the thing, it said I had tried too often and they locked me out. Such are the vagaries of life. But listening to OU Football on 107.7FM is pretty good but when you try to listen to OSU on 106.5 (simultaneously) and watch the LSU vs. Texas game on TV at the same time, well you can get pretty crossed up. Luckily, I had my dear wife to explain it all to me.
The next game OU plays is with UCLA while I think OSU has to go play Texas. Last time OU played UCLA out in the Rose Bowl I was there. Went mostly to be with my sons and also to experience the pleasure first hand of the Big Red Machine mangling the Californians. Of course, they turned on us and won handily. It was a long way home. I try to remember that game when I start to feeling uppity over a double AA football victory. And there’s a long season ahead of us. All 3 of us.
Saw Green’s glass replacing some broken plate glass windows at Eric Pierce’s Grocery Store. The same Eric that was the good kicker in his high school days. I was once again reminded of how expensive that plate glass is and how much trouble the “glass-breaking-criminal” had caused.
Seeing such as this causes me to wonder once again why people want to destroy other people’s property. I think of a sixth grade criminal/classmate I once knew over at Stonewall. The boy was seeing if he could stay all night with me and I was wondering how I could get out of being his host. He lived way out in the sticks and I knew he just wanted to stay all night in town. “Uh, what did you want to do?” I asked. “Well, I’d like to go out and rock some houses and break out some windows,” he replied. I told the guy that my mom wouldn’t let me have company and got out of it. This 6th grader went on to live his life to the age of 34. He died in a Texas prison. But I never did figure out what a person gets out of destroying other people’s property. A very costly problem in America.
Have a good week and be sure and go to Church Sunday. And don’t break out any windows.
Wayne Bullard,
DPh.