Practice, Practice, Practice

I’m not a huge football fan but I do catch a few games, especially when it’s my favorite team, the New York Giants (World Champion New York Giants I might add). Anyhow, last Sunday afternoon I caught a bit of their game against the Rams. It wasn’t a great game even though it turned into a bit of a Giant blowout. At one point when the game was still close,  the Giants were driving when their QB, Eli Manning, was seemingly caught in a blitz and was about to be sacked when he switched the ball to his left hand and tossed an awkward but  accurate pass to running back Brandon Jacobs. It was amazing and the TV announcers seemed to be as astonished as the crowd.

Now if you saw the Super Bowl last year you might not be so surprised by Manning’s agility and quick thinking but still, I hadn’t seen that one done before.

Here’s the point. In this mornings Times, I read that this seemingly random play was actually something that Manning practices while warming up, “just in case.”

How many NFL Quarterbacks practice throwing with their non-dominant arm just in case?  Or, for that matter, how many regular folks like you and me take the time to prepare for the unexpected? I have a whole new respect for Eli Manning right now.

I don’t have any respect for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the morons who run FEMA, the Bush Administration or the government of the State of Texas. Apparently, with Hurricane Ike barreling down on the cities of Houston and Galveston, they all forgot to figure out who was going to deliver the emergency supplies to the people in need. FEMA thought that the State would do it, the State thought that the local government would take care of it. So FEMA sent water and blankets and whatever else they decided to send and no one delivered the goods to the victims. WHO ARE THESE IDIOTS?????

When do we say enough is enough? Hasn’t the current government in Washington ruined enough by now? Can’t they figure out how to make something like disaster relief work and then actually practice what they are supposed to do so that they make sure it works?

I think that the next President should replace Chertoff with Eli Manning. I think Eli will make certain that we are truly prepared for the unexpected.