Showing Up
Life is 90% about just showing up.
I tell my kids all the time:
"Show up and shut up."
The Bills have a Pro Bowl Defensive Tackle, Marcel Dareus. He makes about 10 million dollars a year. He needs to really show up 16 times in a 52 week year.
Against the Dolphins Dareus was suspended, by his own coach, for the first quarter. That suspension came down based on the fact that Dareus was habitually late for his meetings during the week, supposedly all season long.
The boss dropped the hammer.
It reminded me of when the kids were young. I'd give them until 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings to empty all the garbage cans into the big can in the kitchen.
As is human nature, they were scrambling to do it at about 8:58 each Sunday. One morning Matt got to it at 9:02. When he finished I broke the news that he wasn't getting his allowance.
He was late.
He broke the deal.
"Being a little rough on a 7-year-old, aren't you?" Kathy asked.
"Absolutely not. He won't do it again," I said.
Coach Doug Marrone of the Bills must have thought the same thing about Dareus.
When Dareus was interviewed after missing that first quarter he said, "It ain't no big deal."
But lo and behold, the morbidly obese star athlete struggled to get up and out of bed for the 10 a.m. meeting the day after the Dolphins game.
He was suspended for half of the Patriots game.
This time he was sorry, or so he said after making the reporters wait three hours for him to get out of the shower after they got hammered by the Patriots and he cost the team a touchdown because he jumped offsides on a 4th and 1 play.
Of course, now he can sleep until his fat heart is content as the bloated Bills missed the playoffs for the 14th straight year.
Perhaps Dareus will show up with hammer in hand to help the lowly construction guys build him and his playmates a new $130 million taxpayer expansion on his playpen.
The one he only has to show up at 7 times a year.
And lose 4 of those.
And then skip out of the post-game interviews because the reporters are 'out to get him.'
"It's no big deal."
I swear to God, if one of my kids comes home wearing a Dareus shirt I'm gonna' make him eat it.
I tell my kids all the time:
"Show up and shut up."
The Bills have a Pro Bowl Defensive Tackle, Marcel Dareus. He makes about 10 million dollars a year. He needs to really show up 16 times in a 52 week year.
Against the Dolphins Dareus was suspended, by his own coach, for the first quarter. That suspension came down based on the fact that Dareus was habitually late for his meetings during the week, supposedly all season long.
The boss dropped the hammer.
It reminded me of when the kids were young. I'd give them until 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings to empty all the garbage cans into the big can in the kitchen.
As is human nature, they were scrambling to do it at about 8:58 each Sunday. One morning Matt got to it at 9:02. When he finished I broke the news that he wasn't getting his allowance.
He was late.
He broke the deal.
"Being a little rough on a 7-year-old, aren't you?" Kathy asked.
"Absolutely not. He won't do it again," I said.
Coach Doug Marrone of the Bills must have thought the same thing about Dareus.
When Dareus was interviewed after missing that first quarter he said, "It ain't no big deal."
But lo and behold, the morbidly obese star athlete struggled to get up and out of bed for the 10 a.m. meeting the day after the Dolphins game.
He was suspended for half of the Patriots game.
This time he was sorry, or so he said after making the reporters wait three hours for him to get out of the shower after they got hammered by the Patriots and he cost the team a touchdown because he jumped offsides on a 4th and 1 play.
Of course, now he can sleep until his fat heart is content as the bloated Bills missed the playoffs for the 14th straight year.
Perhaps Dareus will show up with hammer in hand to help the lowly construction guys build him and his playmates a new $130 million taxpayer expansion on his playpen.
The one he only has to show up at 7 times a year.
And lose 4 of those.
And then skip out of the post-game interviews because the reporters are 'out to get him.'
"It's no big deal."
I swear to God, if one of my kids comes home wearing a Dareus shirt I'm gonna' make him eat it.
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