It's All Scripted

Over at a financial forum...

P: "I'm at a BWLD watching the Jets game and it's packed (Palisade Plaza).  Making me nervous about the shorts as everyone is eating food and drinking plenty of $8 beers!  "


We Natter, one must read through this sports analogy to get the gist... Amazing what a half decent QB can do for a team, Fitzpatrick vs Smith. Imagine having a great one? Rodgers, Brady? They are a RARE commodity as mediocrity is considered the norm and the "Average Joe" Montana's, don't grow on trees.  When I witnessed old "chicken legs"  79 Cotton Bowl, or Chicken Soup Miracle, I knew whatever team was smart enough to draft him, if they played their cards right, would receive a harvest of Lombardi trophies and Super Bowl rings. 

Which the 49ers did, by bringing in Coach Walsh in 79 and selecting Montana in the 3rd round at #82 as the third QB in the draft behind, Steve Fuller and Phil Simms.  I was fortunate enough to have witnessed live, the confirmation of many future coronations at Candlestick in 1980. Down 35-7 at the half to the winless Ain'ts, the Montana led 49ers made at the time, the greatest comeback in NFL history.   In possession of the facts, I knew they would win their 1st Super Bowl of many the following year and bet the futures accordingly.

Speaking of futures and Coach Walsh, one of my coaches who wound up working for the 49ers, told me in 1979 that the "professor" scripted 25 plays per half.  In other words, 50 total out of 65 non kicking, or 77% of the plays were PREDETERMINED and had been well REHEARSED. What was the logic and how could one "see the future?" 

From a transcript of one of Walsh' West Coast Offense lectures: "with San Francisco we finally stopped with 25. What we have finally done is rehearse the opening part of the game, almost the entire first half, by planning the game before it even starts. Now why would you do such a thing? I know this, your ability to think concisely,

your ability to make good judgments is much easier on Thursday night than during the heat of the game. So we prefer to make our decisions related to the game almost clinically, before the game is ever played. We've scouted our opponent, we have looked at films, we know our opponent well. 

If you coach at the high school level, often you are in the same league with the same coaches and you know them like a book. With out question you can make more objective decisions during the week as to what you would do in the game than you can spontaneously as the game is being played. To be honest with you, you are in a state of stress, sometimes you are in a state of desperation and you are asked to make very calculated decisions. It is rarely done in warfare and certainly not in football; so your decisions made during the week are the ones that make sense. In the final analysis, after a lot of time and thought and a lot of planning, and some practice, I will isolate myself prior to the game and put together the first 25 plays for the game."


Like I stated at the end of this, "preparation is everything, don't chase, let the target come to you, when it walks into the crosshairs, do not hesitate, squeeze firmly with conviction and terminate with extreme prejudice.  In that application, with prep and patience, it should take only one shot."  and here, "no jackin".  As someone commented, a gunfight "it's dark, fast, and confusing".  It can be, for those that walk into that situation in the first place, and are unprepared.  Unlike unplanned parenthood, and the gunfight at C.S. Fly's on Fremont St. in Tombstone, we endeavor to avoid those situations in toto, with aforethought, diligent planning and knowing how our opponent "rolls". Moving West... (no pun intended)...


When I crawl out of my bunker, I too am amazed at the number of people who SEEMINGLY have plenty of discretionary cash.  Nice 25-50K cars, vapid $8 beers, a glass with a 2" metered out restaurant pour of $2 swill wine for only $15, as the smiling haute couture waiter replete with the bow tie carps - our bistro plate special today is, a 6 oz petite sirloin with rosemary (did not erase the tapes) potatoes for only $27.


Your observing those who believe, they and their team actually have a chance in this game. So don't be nervous and blow the illusion, follow the crowd and enjoy the distraction of the gladiators, for the moment.  Quaff, eat, enjoy, its all good, live a little, live a lot, even.  Life is a veritable cornucopia, its a horn of plenty. What does it take to get a drink in this joint? Barkeep get hoppin, my friends are thirsty, even. Here's to hatred, the only thing that lasts. When the markers get called in, much like the stockholders of a $10 stock priced at $186 (BWLD), this Sunday's revelry will soon enough be, a nostalgic reflection of the "good old days" in the rear view mirror. 


Much like a WWF match, they have no clue that their team as well as their own fate has already been signed, sealed and delivered as in scripted, choreographed and rehearsed, as in, I really don't care how bad Buffalo wants it either.  Unlike the "Average Joe", being Montana or Walsh-like, you already know the facts and what your opponents predilections and proclivities are, and that shows in your accomplishments.  So, whenever you have doubt, just remember the definition of paranoia: One who is in possession of the facts; and, not all is as it seems behind the facade of the media narrative.  Out.

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