I used to have such respect for A&E, the channel famous for "Biography" and a wealth of other truly informative documentaries. It's been rapidly converting to reality programming, however, and I've been losing my interest. Now, it seems, the programming director has decided to include (and I use the term very loosely), sports.
Now I'll admit that I've been spending some time watching darts, poker, and billiards on ESPN. Not sports in the best sense of the term, but that's where it is, and I like it, so whatever. Now, however, A&E is trying to push the envelope by airing a $50,000 tournament in Las Vegas (sponsored by Budweiser, no less) for the national Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament. No, I'm not kidding.
The whole thing played out like a real tournament: games, sets, and matches with specific rules and referees; feature matches; commentators who provide cutaways on the history of the "sport," along with input from psychologists about how gender, hair color, profession, and other factors contribute to what a person will "throw" most often (yes, there's even jargon: apparently, a guy who throws three rocks in a row is called a "caveman"). And who put all of this together? What organization sanctions and oversees all of this?
That's right. They have a league. It's the USA Rock Paper Scissors League. Bikini-clad models and everything. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw enough to know that on THAT day, Las Vegas had more zeros than a lottery win.
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deniability from a person who refuses
to be a prisoner of his own world.
deniability from a person who refuses
to be a prisoner of his own world.
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