I was watching Denver Broncos vs San Diego Chargers yesterday. I was hoping Tim Tebow would do well, and he did...adequately. 4-1 as a starter now? Team now at 6-5.
Late in the game, the time was getting near where the Chargers field goal kicker was going to have to attempt a field goal. So the announcers start talking about him, and the camera finds him - and he's kneeling down, with a minion holding a towel around him, and he's apparently going the bathroom.
First question - why isn't there a port-a-potty close to the sidelines so he could have gone in there?
Well...because he's a guy - and guys are uniquely situated so they can go anywhere, and with the help of another guy with a towel, do it with some semblance of decency.
Except when a cameraman keeps filming him while he's doing it.
I mean, really. Once it was clear what the guy was doing, the camera could easily have gone elsewhere while the announcers talked about him and how much pressure he was under, instead of staying right there... although I think it did zoom in so that all we saw was a closeup of his back...
SO then I go to Yahoo new for something, and I see a big ol headline there, "Embarrassing moment for Chargers kicker," and some sports hack has put the video up on his blog - and is making fun of the guy.
Unfortunately, in this day and age of instant news and diminished class, this type of thing happens all the time.
I pay special attention to commercials (and write about them in my other blog, Devolution Media), and most of them contribute to this diminished class - very few of them are uplifting, most of them follow a common theme - embarrass your "friend" or your co-worker or even complete strangers. So funny!
So we've got the Bud Lite commercials where some guy acts "unmanly" and his friends threaten to take away his "man card."
We've got Hanes commercials with Michael Jordan, with one guy telling another to lean forward so that Jordan can see the guy's t-shirt collar has "baconed". (Okay - that one's actually funny.)
There were commercials from Cheetohs a few months ago...which I admit I haven't seen recently...some woman gets out of a nice war and walks away, a poorer woman tosses Cheetohs on to the top of the car so that birds will come and, in eating the Cheetohs, ruin her car's finish, and so on.
Cruel humor is easy humor...that's why it's so prevalent. Which is unfortunate.
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