Big Hits=Big Money. It’s a formula the NFL has perfected throughout the years, encouraging players to hit and hit hard, showing “highlights” of those very hits all the while claiming that they are doing all they can to “clean” up the game. So they fine a few guys (totally up to the leagues discretion) now and again. But they do little to compensate or attempt to help those players of yesteryear who are now aging with severe disabilities related to their years in the NFL. I know. Those players knew the risks. But perhaps those risks have become much larger than we originally knew about. With players becoming bigger and faster and playing at lightening speeds on the field are the risks greater than ever before? We won’t know the results of Junior Seau’s death for some time. But maybe, just maybe, it will force the NFL to address a very clear and present danger.

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I think this cartoon is one that a lot of people can relate to. I know I’m guilty as charged. Those are my favorite kinds of cartoons to draw. Ones that resonate with just about everybody even if you aren’t a sports fan.

Tough we all knew it was coming it was indeed hard to hear that Brian Dawkins was retiring. I always liked the way he played the game with great passion and awareness and integrity. He will be missed more as a leader in the locker room than as a great player on the field. For me, he joins Rod Smith as my two favorite all-time Broncos players. Clone Smith on offense and Dawkins on defense and no telling how many Lombardi trophies the Broncos could rack up.

Not only was that news a bit on the bleak side, but try to be a Saints fan these days. Talk about a franchise implosion of epic proportions. Enough to make a grown man think about tossing his Saints sweatshirt away. But not quite:)

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Drawn for the Guadalupe County Communicator

A big story in The Guadalupe County Communicator this week is all about the looming possibility of High School Drug testing. So I retooled an oldie from waaaay back, added a rendition of the Santa Rosa press box and  I thought this was applicable to a national trend as well. So I decided to post it here.

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