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NFL- Twitter

This last week saw a lot of Twitter promotion for the NFL in London matchup over the weekend between the Jaguars and Colts.  Both team’s official pages were all over the coverage, with interesting posts on fans and players leading up to Sunday’s game.  As an avid English Premier League fan, the NFL in Europe annoys me a bit, but it appears the league really likes the idea of having that early morning time-slot to show games.  

Following the NFL twitter feed is actually exhausting, as they post a TON of content, and they seem to cover all 32 teams equally.  This past week I tried to see if I could pick out anything that might be negative.  The league, as always, makes plenty of news both on and off the field.  There has been plenty of chatter about the drop in TV ratings this season, and I wondered if I would find any mention of it on the official NFL twitter feed. Predictably, there was none.  It’s not surprising, as the official NFL twitter handle is (and probably should be) really just a PR outlet for the league, but it would have been interesting to see how they handled negative press.  I’m looking forward to seeing how/if they address negative incidents in the future, or if it’s all just rainbows and puppy dogs. Not that the public should turn to the NFL twitter feed for hard-hitting journalism, but it would be nice to see them tackle things that might be a little uncomfortable for them.  It would go a long way towards giving the feed some real credibility.  The only remotely negative post that I came across was a link to an article about the worst-producing free agents that were signed this year- no mention of the continuing ‘Kaepernick‘ protests, Josh Gordon drug stories, fan violence, or concussions….

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Life.

The other day my friend asked, “How are you?” I said, “Okay, how are you?” But she asked in a tone that was more serious, more probing. Not just they way you ask when you first greet someone. I think she was trying to get me to talk. About myself. This is not something I am practiced at. She probed further, “How’s work going?” I said, “Okay, how about you?” Actually, I probably threw an eye roll in there too because work is very frustrating and she’s aware of that. My point is that it’s such an automatic, ingrained response to those kinds of questions to give a short answer and ask them back in kind. When really I should try to be aware, especially in a sit-down conversation with a friend, not just a passing-on-the-street kind of thing, that I can open up, that I can talk about how I feel and what’s going on. And we’ll talk about how she feels and what’s going on with her too. So after my initial response of, “Okay, how are you?” I should have paused and given her a real answer. Everything is shitty. Well, no, I mean, nothing is really shitty. That’s not true. Lots of things are shitty; at this moment, nothing is, like, acutely shitty. There’s just lots of chronically shitty things. Nothing is shitty with me, personally, at this moment. I’m here, I’m alive, I can breathe, I have a body that works, I’m not destitute, I have shelter and food and a couple of people in my life, I have a decent amount of free time to do with as I choose and no dependents. If I start on all the things that are shitty I won’t be able to sleep tonight. I think part of me likes to be the caretaker, the okay one, so I don't like to show any faults, that there’s anything wrong. But really I’m not doing a good job taking care of anybody because of all the chronically shitty stuff.