Why?

Just like the Bible has two creation stories, I figured I would just throw out some of my reasons for starting this nonsense, and hopefully try to give some sort of idea of what it's going to be about. The idea sprang up the other day, when Dick and I, trying to cope with how much we missed Fire Joe Morgan, were trying to quantify intangibles for Heisman voting. Dick said we should start a blog, I agreed, and here we are.

There was never much debate about what content we would have, because we don't really intend to exclude anything. As the title may suggest, the focus is going to primarily be on the stupid things that people around us, and in the media, do and say. It may turn out to be rant-based, it may be observational humor, it may just be an outlet for self-absorbed nonsense, there will almost definitely be some amount of sports journalism metacriticism, hopefully humor will be one constant, but really anything could show up here.

A lot of people, once their websites get big, say that they started just to make their friends laugh; that really isn't the goal here. In out initial conversation Dick brought up the possibility of making money and, for me at least, that seems like a great purpose. I'm not going to lie, I need several hundred thousand dollars so I can go to space on Richard Branson's spaceship. If this gets me any closer to that goal, then it's a success in my eyes.