Today’s Twofer Tuesday involves a couple of mini-rants from yours truly inspired by none other than Mike Tyson. (Note – for some reason(s) that I have yet to figure out, the most response/reaction I receive to any given Buzzyblog posts are generally the ones involving a rant of sorts. Guess it just goes to prove that people enjoy/approve/react to hearing someone bitch and complain about things. No political comment intended here mind you.)
All day this past Saturday in Buzzy’s Country Store, and much to my surprise, the Number One topic of conversation was the previous night’s Tyson-Paul Fight. More folks than I would have imagined watched it and of course had something to say about it. Couple folks even viewed re-run hi-lites of it on their phones while sitting in the Store drinking a beer and talking about it.
The Buzzy conversations tended to go from the fight itself, to how much money Tyson, Paul and Jerry Jones were making from it. Jerry was included because the fight was held in Dallas at his Jerry-world stadium. It prompted one sportscaster on Friday to note, “This fight is so bad, Vegas didn’t even want it.”
But when it comes to sports (and remember I am a sportsaholic,) boxing is one of my least favorites. In fact, I have it down there at the bottom of the sports’ barrel along with midget tossing and competitive heroin injecting. (OK, I made that last one up, but you get my drift – I don’t care at all for nor about boxing.)
Boxing may be referred to as “the Sweet Science” but to me there is not one thing sweet nor scientific about it. “The Dumbest Science” would be a better descriptive. Thus, I have had it with boxing.
A final conversational piece in the Buzzy discussions about the fight centered upon Tyson receiving this big payout after he had declared bankruptcy in 2003 (click here.) Note that there are stories floating around that Tyson’s fight with Paul guaranteed him more money the longer the fight went on. Ironically, the fight went all of its 8 scheduled rounds. Amazing huh? Go figure.)
However, when it comes to declaring bankruptcy, if you google “celebrity bankruptcies,” it will take you awhile to scroll thru a very long list of movie stars, athletes and even politico’s who have declared bankruptcy to avoid paying their debts. Some of these folks have even done so multiple times. (Again no political commentary is being made here.)
It leads one to conclude that bankruptcy laws are in dire need of reform and not just for individuals. Large corporations and organizations are now using bankruptcy to avoid paying settlements to folks. For example, see this article on the Archdiocese of Baltimore declaring bankruptcy to avoid abuse payments. And please note that I am not just signaling out the Catholic Church on this tactic. Major corporations are currently avoiding settlement payments thru use of a legal tactic called the Texas Two-Step (click here.) When it comes to bankruptcy laws and regulations, maybe that is a swamp that ought to be drained.
Music-wise, here is good but seldom heard tune from the boys talking about having had it with toxic relationships:
Today and all this week at Buzzy’s, the conversations will return to football because it is Dallas week. The Commanders opened as 2.5 favorites and the line is now at 10+. Think Jerry and the Cowboys are about to declare bankruptcy?
