If anyone's been following the Tennessee Titans (who seem to be hogging the NFL's entire supply of bad karma), and have thought it could get no worse, ye are mistaken, mortal - it just got worse. The spring's flooding in Nashville has caused a sizable sinkhole to open up at LP field, in addition to the other three million dollars of damage the flooding caused to the stadium. (Nashville Business Journal) Due to the fact that those in the know think this may have been caused by a "pre-existing condition" (ie, they built the place on shaky ground) and shoddy construction (ie, they can't hold a stadium together any more than they can hold a team together down there), the city's insurance may not cover the damages! Folks, we've officially crossed from bad psychology into a disaster of Biblical proportions. God/Goddess/The Powers That Be has decided (s)he/it hates the Titans and anyone/anything associated with said team and is content on wrecking their home turf, thereby offering schadenfreude to everyone else. I'm actually kind of sad that the Bears don't play the Titans this year; watching the League's most inept offense square off against the League's biggest train-wreck would be uproarious. I'm also looking forward to the Eagles/Redskins game just to watch Donovan McNabb get confused about who he plays for halfway through the third quarter or something.
My buddy Eric, football fan and avid reader, points out that the whole sordid mess in Nashville actually follows Greek mythology, where the Titans were actually the Elder gods of the Greek pantheon, and they were eventually overthrown and banished by other gods. History always repeats itself, right?
In other news: Bears tickets go on sale in sixteen days. I'm excited.
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