When Gods Have Girlfriends and Motorcycle Wrecks

In america, college football is as big as big gets. Millions of people, billions of dollars. Successful players and coaches become wealthy celebrity idols, joining a long list in american culture's endless craving for living gods. America is a place which, bereft of any tangible deity, creates ever new and exciting gods, aka "celebrities". And the gods themselves begin to believe what the people say. (shouldn't it be the other way around?)

Well, it is the other way around. It "works both ways." The people believe what the celebrity-gods say, so the relationship is symbiotic, and pleasing for all.

Thus a successful major universtiy football coach-celebrity, infected perhaps by a bit of socially engineered personal hubris, hops on his motorcycle with his student/girlfriend/employee, has a wreck, and thereby creates a whole big mess.

Of course the "inappropiate relationship" is revealed unto all the world quickly. Hell, the media was pointing cameras at the coach before the blood was even wiped off his face. That's quick coverage. Were the camera people riding Harleys ? Then, we the sheeple soak all this up, spoon fed as usual by the dispensers of adrenaline, aka "the media".

How long before a video appears on youtube, cell phone camera aiming through window of young mistress's apartment, adulturous coach n' babe within? Stay tuned, and upgrade your popcorn popper.

Maybe we should all just ignore it. After all, how many motorcycle wrecks and how many old man-young woman affairs must we know about? But we really can't ignore it, can we? We are too fascinated by it to ingore it, because we have been told, repeatedly, by our corporate masters, that this is the sort of thing we ought to find fascinating. The corporate-kardashian complex.

I almost wish the football coach had gone to his wife a priori and said "any way we could alter the terms of our marriage?" (its a simple yes or no question). And I almost wish we would all just say  "no matter, its only football, and another argument for polygamy."

I'd best not be holdin' my breath...

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