I'm still shocked that Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell called this a ``nation of wussies" because the Eagles cancelled a football game during a snowstorm.
Really? Pardon me for sounder younger than I am, but this is just the latest example of someone espousing ``The Good Ol' Days When Men Were Men and Women Couldn't Vote."
How old does this guy sound? I'm thinking Jurrasic Park, high-school-roommates-with-Sid old.
Cancelling a football game because fans who paid exhorbitant prices for their tickets won't crash or die on the highways doesn't make this a nation of softies. It's another sign of progress.
If you're Rendell, maybe you'd like to go back to the days when seat belts weren't mandatory (and more people died in car wrecks); smoking was ``cool" (and more people died of lung cancer, even those who didn't smoke); concussions were ``cobwebs" (hmmmm, maybe we've found Rendell's problem); and drinking and driving was just the best way to get to the bar on Saturday night (or are we softies for not being able to navigate with a cut-glass tumbler filled wiht a Manhattan in our hands?)
Rendell probably thinks ``Mad Men" is the way life should be. Smoke and drink at work, sexually harass women, leave your trash in Central Park and call it ``The American Dream."
To reiterate: Cancelling the game to protect the safety of their fans on Sunday night was a smart call by the Eagles.
The travesty is in letting TV dictate that the game be played on Tuesday night, instead of Monday night. That's when greed overwhelmed logic.
