Perverse Football

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I was watching football last week and I heard the penalty called out as “roughing the passer.”

This is a very serious offense and it requires giving up 15 yards of real estate- quite a lot when you figure that there’s only 100 yards total and it’s a “zero sum GAME”.

So when this happens, most fans of the Quarterback who got man-handled, will cheer.

Wait…what?

They cheer? No that can’t be right…why would they cheer? Oh…Oh! That’s the reason…Oh, how perverse!

They cheer because they assume that the quarterback is in good enough shape and padded well enough that he’ll be alright.

And they’re right, I think. I haven’t been keeping the most meticulous of records, but I would venture to say that upwards of 75% of the time the QB is… just fine.

But when you cheer when he had just gotten his head smashed into the turf.

That’s weird quirk of human nature.

WE cheer when something bad happens because it will mean something good is coming.

It

Is

So

Weird
Being
Human

   

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Zaslow Crane wrote his first Science fiction story when he was 11 This was after an uncle had given him a Charmin case full of sci fi paperbacks- all the old masters: A.E.Van Vogt, Cordwainer Smith, Heinlen, Bradbury, and dozens more. After that, he never looked back. Zaslow Crane has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers over many years, and has been a contributing editor for a national magazine. He has been published a couple hundred times for non fiction. Regarding fiction, he writes primarily SciFi and was one of the creative talents behind Smoke and Mirrors, a parsec nominated podcast that "re-imagined" the Twilight Zone and, which ran for 2 1/2 years. He has written over two hundred short stories, 7 or 8 novellas and two novels, one of which "explains" a great many advancements in human technology. He likes mindless sort of work, because it frees that other part of his brain to work on story ideas, so if you see him, say, digging a ditch, you'll know that he’s really writing. He lives in a tiny house on a hill in Central California. His home overlooks the ocean - IF you're willing to stand on tip toes and crane your neck. Just a bit.