If Only We Could Back/Future Mistakes

Random thoughts: some serious, some light, and others take your pick. Of course the game between the Carolina Panthers and Kansas City Chiefs will be played as scheduled. Chiefs’ linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend and then himself yesterday. I am not saying the game should be postponed just that I knew it would not be postponed. Alas, this is the league that played football two days after President John F. Kennedy was killed over 49 years ago. The league suspended Paul Hornung and Alex Karras for gambling that season but again played football two days after the President of the United States was killed. Some things and their inherent hypocrisy and lowering of standards causes a pain that does not easily subside.

It is sad that Rick Majerus, an excellent college basketball coach, who had a great view about life passed away. I met him once and told him how bad his “friend” Mike Francesa was at picking results of games and how arrogant he was in doing so. Majerus, very politely, said nothing. As callers consoled Francesa on his “friend’s” death I “ask” Francesa (from here so he can not hang up on me) to start considering what people will say or do say about him now.

The movie “Back to the Future” really holds up, certainly as an entertainment vehicle but also in offering life lessons. In the movie, the interesting “Doc” character goes ahead thirty years to 2015. This was after the lead character, “Marty,” goes back thirty years to 1955. If the world is still here and Hollywood is viable three years hence (this future status is very likely) perhaps a “Back, ahead and stay” regarding the future is in order. Where did 27 years go since 1985? In the 1985 movie, there was surprise that an actor had become president and a character scoffed at the idea of a black mayor. That was 1985 going back to 1955, there is fertile ground just regarding the presidency for 1985 to 2015. I wonder if “Doc” who “invented” many things was “ahead of the curve” when it came to mobile phones?