I have no problem getting into college football games but for some reason, NFL doesn't excite me as much. I can watch the Super Bowl and stuff and on Thanksgiving, but as for regular Sunday games? Not happening.
Maybe I've just worn myself down from Saturday or something.
But you better believe I'm watching the Manning Bowl. Isn't it Sunday?
The thing about Steve is that it's even more sad because A: he had a family to leave behind, and B: We all knew it was coming.
Now, rumor has it that he actually used devenomated snakes for a lot of his shows. While being a bit false given his persona, it still would be far safer for everyone involved. But Roni and I stopped watching him a few years ago, because it was apparent to her that, regardless of the rumor, he was a bit ... loose with his animals.
Roni has a bit of experience with stingrays, as the SCZ has some ocellated river rays and the A&R department is also responsible for all the fish at the zoo. Their stingrays are awesome. They're small, but they're incredibly smart, and social. For a while there were a bunch in a holding tank backstage of the jungle building, and when Roni would come into the room, they would swim up to the side of the tank and actually splash water at her to try and get her attention (she always brought them smelt to eat). I watched this happen, and actually fed some stingrays once. They're hella cool.
BUT ... there was another zookeeper that used to work out there. Not exactly the most shining example of humanity, she had the noteriety of being the only SCZ employee in the last ten years to be invenomated. Why? She was doing her routine in the jungle, and she tried to move one of the stingrays away from one corner of the pond WITH HER HAND. She got stuck, and she had to go to St. Francis with her hand swelled up like a balloon.
Steve ... God rest his soul ... was dealing with at least a half a dozen king-sized sea rays. True, he wasn't doing anything to provoke them, other than being there, but he didn't notice that one was below him, and that's all it took. When you're dealing with dangerous and venomous animals, the risks will catch up to you someday.
That said, he was very entertaining, especially when things did go wrong. One time he was shadowing this Komodo Dragon, and he sliced his leg open on a tree branch, and happened to be upwind of the Dragon, who spun around and went into feed mode. A few seconds of mayhem later, the camera shot righted itself, and there was Steve, in a tree, with this Komodo beneath him staring at him like, "Come on you pudgy white thing, I'm hungry." It was cute.
I believe so. I'm never forgiving Eli for his asshattedness during the draft, but despite that, I think he could still be a decent QB. But he's no Peyton, though I don't think he'll ever run out of people reminding him such.
I will say that no MNF on ABC just doesn't seem right. I'm having a hell of a time keeping track of which networks are carrying what anymore.
I met a bat ray in San Fran that tried to eat me. Kept bobbing to the surface and opening its mouth. I would've had to be very accommodating to get eaten, as it was about the size of a CD, but it was adorable.
Steve spent a good number of years doing what he wanted, and packed more living into that time than most people do in their entire lives, so I don't see it as overwhelming tragedy as much as shocking yet near-inevitability. Sad, but anything else would've been a disappointment.
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Maybe I've just worn myself down from Saturday or something.
But you better believe I'm watching the Manning Bowl. Isn't it Sunday?
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Now, rumor has it that he actually used devenomated snakes for a lot of his shows. While being a bit false given his persona, it still would be far safer for everyone involved. But Roni and I stopped watching him a few years ago, because it was apparent to her that, regardless of the rumor, he was a bit ... loose with his animals.
Roni has a bit of experience with stingrays, as the SCZ has some ocellated river rays and the A&R department is also responsible for all the fish at the zoo. Their stingrays are awesome. They're small, but they're incredibly smart, and social. For a while there were a bunch in a holding tank backstage of the jungle building, and when Roni would come into the room, they would swim up to the side of the tank and actually splash water at her to try and get her attention (she always brought them smelt to eat). I watched this happen, and actually fed some stingrays once. They're hella cool.
BUT ... there was another zookeeper that used to work out there. Not exactly the most shining example of humanity, she had the noteriety of being the only SCZ employee in the last ten years to be invenomated. Why? She was doing her routine in the jungle, and she tried to move one of the stingrays away from one corner of the pond WITH HER HAND. She got stuck, and she had to go to St. Francis with her hand swelled up like a balloon.
Steve ... God rest his soul ... was dealing with at least a half a dozen king-sized sea rays. True, he wasn't doing anything to provoke them, other than being there, but he didn't notice that one was below him, and that's all it took. When you're dealing with dangerous and venomous animals, the risks will catch up to you someday.
That said, he was very entertaining, especially when things did go wrong. One time he was shadowing this Komodo Dragon, and he sliced his leg open on a tree branch, and happened to be upwind of the Dragon, who spun around and went into feed mode. A few seconds of mayhem later, the camera shot righted itself, and there was Steve, in a tree, with this Komodo beneath him staring at him like, "Come on you pudgy white thing, I'm hungry." It was cute.
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I will say that no MNF on ABC just doesn't seem right. I'm having a hell of a time keeping track of which networks are carrying what anymore.
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Steve spent a good number of years doing what he wanted, and packed more living into that time than most people do in their entire lives, so I don't see it as overwhelming tragedy as much as shocking yet near-inevitability. Sad, but anything else would've been a disappointment.