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Ask them how they are doing. As a celebrity there is nothing more annoying then hearing the same questions from everyone you meet. I am friends with the ex-boyfriend of extremely high profile football player’s sister. I’ve never once asked him about the relationship. I’m friends with a handful of other known folks. Rarely do we talk shop. I once met another well known person (actor) at a shindig at a well known BH area ‘home”. I was amused so asked for a selfie and he said “uhh this already”. That changed my approach! I felt like I wrecked the dudes night. So be you, be authentic, be casual. Don’t be “what’s your favorite play” . That’s my take!
“Have you met Tommy “Cutlets” (Tommy DeVito) now that he’s on the Patriots, and if so, what was it like meeting someone with the best story that’s come out of the NFL in years?
Gronk in particular: How many fingers am I holding up?
For Gronk: How’s the hammy? And what’s it like to realize you’re old now?
For Gronk: How many Edelman’s can you fit in the trunk without chopping off limbs?
For Edelman: Why, why are you here?
Just spitballing here
Why are Tottenham Hotspur doing so badly this season?
Absolutely.
Amazing! I don’t post that much but this week I have had direct replies from Jason, Adrian (on X) AND now Matt! I am truly blessed!
Because they suck.
(Arsenal fan)
Ask them if they can get a few more of their teammates and actually launch the car.
Ask them why it’s called football when they mostly don’t use their feet to play with a thing that isn’t ball shaped.
I also have a theory that the one hour football game goes on so long because the extra 10 minutes of all the one hour psychiatrist appointments have been donated, but I would not expect them to know the details of that.
“Will you sign my jockstrap? It’s for a friend. His name is Matt.”
That’s my 1st question, I meant after that!
If Gronkowski is revealing it, then whatever the car’s state of development, it must be considered a brototype.
Ask “Would you rather never eat dessert again, or be able to eat whatever fabulous dessert you want at any meal and gain no weight, but a professional softball player will whip an identical dessert at your head while you eat?”
What car feels tiniest to you?
“At what point do you have enough money that you would consider not being at events like this?”
What could possibly justify professional male sports salaries, and why aren’t the team owners paying for the stadiums if they want new ones so badly?
Salaries are justified by the massive revenue they bring in from all the people paying to watch them, like any other performers or entertainers. With how much teams get for tickets, broadcast rights, merchandising, and sponsorships, it would be unethical for them not to pay their players in the millions, since the players are the ones actually generating all that money
Doesn’t wash for me. They don’t create anything of value, and professional sports franchises are massive public funds extractors that bleed urban areas of money that would be better spent on services that actually help people. I also can’t get behind multi-million dollar paychecks for actors, CEOs, or other similarly overcompensated roles. Certainly not while actual things we need like teachers, social workers, etc. are so poorly paid.
It’s bread and circuses all the way down, except without the bread, and the clowns aren’t funny.
That’s true, but making the owners even richer isn’t the answer.
On the other hand, big salaries encourage other kids to persue careers as players mostly to their detriment.
Not as bad as combat sports where a bunch of guys beat the crap out of each other, but pretty much the same.
So, if a movie makes, like $1 billion at the box office, how much would you graciously allow the actors to be paid out of that?
The Cowboys gross something like $1.3 billion a year, they are a business selling a product, that money comes from consumers willingly purchasing their product with money that is theirs to spend. I am with you on no taxpayer funding to replace already pretty new stadiums with even newer stadiums because a team owner’s friend has a fancier sky box in his stadium, but that means politicians have to stop handing out that money and voters have to stop letting them. I can’t completely fault businesses for accepting “free” money when it’s being made available. Stop making it available
Pay for athletes is a different topic than cities being stupid and paying hundreds of millions or even billions to build a stadium.
Athletes get paid a lot because people are willing to pay a lot to see them play. It is that simple. Same with actors. That many people value entertainment more than education is a different and sad topic.
Governments paying for stadiums is just stupid. Time after time we see that the initial investment is never recovered. We are going through the same thing here with the Trailblazers. A billionaire bought the team and has basically said he expects the city, county, and state governments to pay for a $600 million remodel of the Moda Center or he will take the team somewhere else that will build him a new stadium. In the middle of big budget shortfalls at all levels of government he got his way and the state just passed a bill to kick in $350 million assuming the city and counties pay their part.
The odd thing is that a lot of people I talk to at work are fine with this. They are willing to pay money to have the Trailblazers in town – which means the politicians are doing their jobs.
The reality is that companies getting special favors from governments and tax payers will continue to happen as long as governments are willing to play the game. Extortion stops working if everyone agrees not to pay. But as long as their are cities that will pay for factories and stadiums the owners will keep extorting money.
Also the careers of athletes are very short, and on average don’t pay all that well.
The players have unions to fight for their salaries, also. As far as the government subsidizing billionaires for the stadiums: That shouldn’t happen, but does because if a sports team leaves, that’s a lot of money walking out the door. And nowadays you have legal sports betting, too. More tax money. People buying the “product” of football. People going out to watch the game at a local bar or restaurant. Cab drivers bringing drunks home. Sports create a ton of economic activity. And it’s only gonna get worse now that they opened college up to NIL. And it feels like espn is a gambling ad that covers sports nowadays, not the other way around.
1) What’s your favorite car for a long, leisurely cruise on a warm summer night?
2) What are you listening to on this cruise?
Ask them how many cup holders they think are the right number of cup holders.
“How much money would it take for you to spend the night in a cemetary?”
Have you ever walked out of a mall into a huge parking area and realized you’d forgotten where you parked your car?
Ask him if Bill Belichick is a better coach than DA Coach (Mike Ditka).
Would they ever be caught dead driving a patriot? Do they even know what one is?
Why is Rugby Union a better sport and vastly less boring than American Football and why are Rugby Players in better athletes?
Pretty sure the Eagles’ starting left tackle, Jordan Mailata, use to play rugby, or maybe Australian Rules’ Football. Never played US style football until they drafted him in the 7th round.
Hmm. What would I ask Rob Gronkowski if I had the chance?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir defined the impressionist movement with his sharp eye for beauty and Parisian modernity in the later 19th century. How well do you feel he captures light and shadow compared to the works of Claude Monet, especially when it comes to depicting the human element. Monet gave the impressionist movement its name – do you feel that’s warranted given his focus on surface effects?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was definitely the party boy, and the better dancer.
I went to an exhibition of Monet’s later works in SF a few years ago. It was there I learned he was, in his later years, effectively blind from cataracts:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/08/claude-monet-cataract/
Ironically knowing that fact helped me see those paintings with a much clearer perspective.
So perhaps Pierre-Auguste Renoir very literally had a sharper eye for beauty and Parisian modernity than Monet.
Ask the football players if they would take possession or punt the vehicle that is being launched.
How well do you fit in that car?
I’d ask Grok if its true if he never spent an NFL paycheck, only endorsement money? I want to know what both of them drive, and what they drove when they were rookies.
Ive heard that, too. Despite his persona, he’s supposed to have been one of the more fiscally responsible NFL players
Of course he had to spend SOME of it to pay his taxes on his NFL salary. And pay his agent.
Don’t care about the pay, but I second wanting to know what their first car was, and what they daily now. What’s their go to?
Is the full-court press really what I think it is? *waggle eyebrows suggestively*
Has anyone ever been prosecuted under the infield fly rule?
What is your favorite type of tire gauge?
Do you agree that middle/high schools should cut their sportsball budgets by 90% so they can afford to provide better-quality education?
“Do you agree that middle/high schools should cut their sportsball budgets by 90% so they can afford to provide better-quality education?”
+1 on this question.
More money spent on the same bad teaching methods isn’t going to help.
More money wasted on canned education “curriculum” instead of letting teachers tailor their teaching methods to their students. And money wasted on unused tech.
$130 million wasted on what used to be free in just one district.
What is Tom Brady’s favorite type of ball pressure gauge?
Edelman is not given enough credit for all the plays he made and saved, in the process making Brady look even better, who was already doing pretty well on his own. I believe Gronk is smarter than his public persona (from which he continues to make gobs of $$), as he chose to retire early after a number of spine injuries. Most likely had a financial plan or someone who he listened to did, had made enough to be comfortable rest of life, cant enjoy it with a broken back, or drive a Cadillac.
He can pay someone to polish the fenders.
A full-court press is a French press, also known as a cafetière, cafetière à piston, caffettiera a stantuffo, press pot, coffee press, or coffee plunger, is a coffee brewing device that makes 9 generously sized servings of coffee adequate for the Supreme Court’s caffeine needs.
Everyone knows that.