The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for October 10, 2021

i dont understand, is he not a good quarterback? has he ever won the Stanley Cup?

Two things celebrities seem to hate: being recognized, and not being recognized.

Oscar Wilde — ‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.’

And this one: “There’s only one thing worse than being ogled… Not being ogled…”

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He must not understand that much about sports…..but at least he has a cool shirt on!

Witness. They asked me at work why I didn’t join the fantasy football pool. In my football fantasy, the NFL is bankrupt, the players all have to get real jobs, and the networks have to develop quality programming to take its place.

I know the names of at least 100 cartoonists and the comics that they create, couldn’t name a single quarterback

Would be funnier if I knew who the hell Tim Naering was!

Did he ever play with Wayne Gretzky or Pele?

This is reminiscent of a very funny riff in Mark Twain’s Roughing It, in which (he says) he briefly fills in as the editor of a column on agriculture for a west coast newspaper. It is of course all tongue in cheek, but it has things like the editor “Twain” causing an uproar by writing with sober conviction about melons growing on trees and tomatoes ripening underground and things like that.

Ha ha! Sounds like me. I’ve tended bar for at least one TN Titan, don’t remember his name but he was sweet. I also ran into a guy who used to sing karaoke night at another local bar, I said I rarely attended that night as I found it too noisy, he smiled and said something about missing him sing then. When he left I was informed he used to attend, as he currently had a popular album out. Oops. Guess I won’t be selling those autographs on ebay!

Oh, Lennie, everyone knows he played goalie for the Celtics.

Ah, professional sports. I used to know about professional darts and saw some of the world’s best play in my little city. However, my knowledge of who played in other sports is limited to remembering back to my childhood around the time of the Canada-Russia hockey series of 1972. We got to watch the day time shows on TV while in school.

Tim who???

Would it have helped if you spelled his name correctly?

There’s so many things wrong with what you said, Lennie!!! :D