I Really Hate It When...

The TV in Seniors "Man Cave" goes on the blink. And he is in the living room commandeering my TV.  Then I can never watch any of my good shows. Because He has sports on.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE football, Baseball ( whoo hoo Atlanta Braves--avoided the sweep! )  and NASCAR (-when they are not going around an oval..I like the road courses.)
And, I am the commissioner of our Fantasy Football League. Women are the fastest growing demographic in fantasy football, this year I am happy to report that we have 5 female owned teams, and 5 boy owned teams..Therefore we named the divisions Estrogen and Testosterone. Whether you like football or not, it is still fun to play and fight for bragging rights. This year I am awarding an actual trophy, so there is more of an incentive.

The boys ( and I use that term loosely)  are all ready running their mouths about who is going to take home this years championship trophy. They assume we girls belong in the kitchen and are going to end up making them a big "Roast Beef Sammich" as it was told to me yesterday.

It is turning out to be a real battle of the sexes. It is incomprehensible to some of them that we girls have taken over half the league. What these boys don't realize is that 4 out of 5 of us , are seasoned Fantasy Football players, and the one who has not played, is a football fanatic in her own right and loves her LSU Tigers. Many a day last season she and I chit chatted about what teams did what on Sundays, she was anxious to join our league.

The one man ( not Senior) but still a retired Senior Chief is the one with the loudest mouth.He is the commissioner of our Fantasy Nascar league--a league that currently Yours Truly , yes ME -JUGM is leading. So, yesterday during our football draft I politely said:  " If you run your football team the way you are running your nascar team, then you will be an easy win for your opponent"  It was met with lots of jeers and LOLs

The "Man Children"  have drawn the line in the sand  and we Ladies have crossed it . We have torn off our aprons and burnt them in effigy, we have thrown down the rolling pins, and have printed out NFL stats, and watch daily on who to play and who to sit. A sleeping giant has been awoken, they opened the door, now we are going through it...

Time to put the men and kids to bed girls and go out for dinner! 

Yea! that is what I am talking about!  

-JUGM

5 NASCAR Drivers Decline White House Invite

I love reading a article and seeing the Liberal spin on it. Today on Drudge I saw where 5 NASCAR drivers declined the White House offer to meet the anointed one. So I clicked on it. And immediately the website put a radical spin on it. Saying that: " This is the President of the United States after all".

 It is nearing the end of the season, and they are extremely busy people, with all the travel and sponsor smoozing they have to do-they hardly have time to see their families, much less POTUS.   However, perhaps they have different political views, and do not want to be seen in a picture with the worst President in American History. I think one of their lasting legacies will be in addition to all their wins and championships, is that they stood their ground and didn’t say “How High” when the White House said “Jump”. Scheduling conflict or not, it is still a mark on Obama that not every one drop what they are doing when he summons them.

And one last note: I was VERY happy to see that two of my favorite drivers; Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick, were among the five drivers that declined.

http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2011/9/1/2399376/nascar-drivers-decline-president-barack-obama-white-house-invitation-jimmie-johnson-2011