Can-can. Can knots.

Cancan. (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Things should line up straight to continue the dance. Can do so much more if organized with patterns and a steady beat. It seems so simple.

Recently, some football players, doctors, and lawyers are kicking at the structure of the game.

No fuzzy thinking can be flagged concerning concussions. Can anyone doubt that repeated head bashing causes damage?

One look at former boxers is pretty convincing. No secret since 1928. “Punch-drunk”. “Punchy”. “Slap-happy”.”Knocked silly”. “Took one to many to the head”. Common phrases used for the groggy haze of boxers and in reference to brain damage in boxers.

So why all of a sudden the shock at discovering football players who constantly crash into hard helmets, solid bodies, and unforgiving ground get brain damage?

Not cancan. Although when these are bare and naked each winter, they seem to act pretty liberated. Cavorting free and breezy. Flirty even, before they cover up with their floral summer outfits. ©

For years the threat and potential of career ending injuries and life long damage has been the justification for football player’s huge salaries and bonuses.

Big risk, big rewards, right?

All a gamble. Like with race car drivers: dangerous with a serious risk of a crash, but oh, what a payoff if it goes well. And it can. Any brainiac can see that.

No can can play the game? Good there was plenty of money to put in the banks just in case, right? All of a sudden injured players feel they can ask for even more money for suffering concussions which are more normal than not in this sport they chose to participate in?

Some even can see it as a legal excuse for criminal acts or bad behavior.

How can they say they didn’t understand the risks?

Players have eyes, ears, and can easily read about risks. Oh, well, maybe not the last – but they have family and “people” that can guide them.

Many ordinary people cannot understand why when choices were made, but the results weren’t what an individual wanted, some feel they can complain and demand special treatment.

Oh, well, football fans can expect an additional special fee or tax added to ticket prices to build a “Cannot Play Fund”. Who else can make it, right?

Apparently, can cans can also be comedians. (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Is it so difficult to fathom can cans and can nots?

• Can anyone really expect voters to pick them by saying things like “Pick me because I’m this gender/this race/speak a language just like you“? Cannot understand why saying things like “Vote of me or there’s a special place in hell for you” would even be uttered much less and affirmingly laughed and nodded at. Younger voters do not appreciate threats, older “celebrities” telling them how to think, or assumptions with over-generalizations. These strategies that aren’t exactly can can do – for any political party.
• Cannot understand why anchors of national morning shows who can talk about so many interesting, entertaining and informative topics would choose to spend a segment talking about “Your most embarrassing pee story.” Grown women. Punch drunk or something that Today morning? Who cares about you going down a slide or sitting on the curb with full pants waiting for mom or wetting while tap dancing? Why would anyone show a young daughter sitting on a potty surrounded by piles of toys even if a co-anchor asked what you did while being snowed in? Can find better amusements. Click. Canned.

Cannots knowing better to be silent than to reveal one too many punches to the head. ..even in clipped tones.©

Just a few ideas kicking down the road.

Can’t stop grinning over the Broncos can-do spirit. It was almost like watching the home team considering how many of those players did tours of duty here at one time or another. We can too claim them… Just gave them some seasoning here. That can do a lot…all part of the plan….

(Only 363 days until the next Super Bowl. Only know as it’s all over the news here. This is the next game’s location. Good news – bad news.)

Always in favor of more can cans.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Anyone who knows can-can understands the trick is to leave something to the imagination. (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

 

 

 

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