Archive for September 16th, 2007

I ain’t all Super Nationalist or whatever, but I guess I came up being inculcated into the “spend money in the Community whenever you can” mindset, so I do that. So as a couple of you know, I’m buying textbooks for my class, so instead of going with one of the major chain stores, I tried to buy at a smaller, Black-owned store. Actually, they have several locations, so I thought I was gonna be in good shape. But naw. I ordered the books 3 weeks ago. Still don’t have none.

Now the thing is, I can’t act like this is the rule, but I will say that I’m maaaaad disappointed that even when I came with a major order, I couldn’t get suitable service. As it turned out, the problem wasn’t with the store per se, so I imagine that I’ll give them another shot, but I’m certainly a little more gun shy. Especially when the store I’m actually buying from is also a small, independent bookseller. So I guess in a way, I’m keepin the money circulating, but not the way I had initially imagined.

Well, the Cowboys are running out of the gate looking as strong as they should. So far, they’ve put up a lot of points - but they haven’t been close to corralling anybody else, either. Explosive offense + implosive defense…who knows which way it can go? The question of the week is this: is the Dallas offense that good, or have they been playing bad teams? Well we know they’ve been playing bad teams - or at least, winless teams, but only time will tell what they’re gonna do against a solid squad.

I guess the same thing goes for one of my surrogate teams, the Steelers. (Of course, any team with a Black coach and/or QB is my surrogate team, so I have lots.) They’ve beaten up on a couple of wack teams, but there’s still some question as to what will happen when they play a real squad. One thing that’s different about PGH, though, they’ve already won with this formula, so it’s not like we’re seeing something different. Ben has played efficient football and they have won, so this is more showing last year as an aberration than him coming out and turning over a new leaf.

Of course, the game of the day was the Battle of Ohio. The way it was shaping up, I kept waiting for the Browns to fool around and score 50 points in a loss. They made the play that counted, though. The Bengals clearly have no defense. Either that or the Browns were playing possum last week and this is the real squad right here.

So I have a fantasy squad. Not that I’ve been investing too much time into it. F’real-f’real, I don’t even know who I have. I haven’t been able to log into the account since I made it. But my friends keep me updated on my results. I know four of my players: Romo at QB, Willie Parker as my HB, Gates is my TE, and Steve Smith is one of my WRs, so I’m in pretty good shape. It’ll be nice to log in at some point, though.