I've Got Those Lapel Pin Blues

This weekend was a wild one. Saturday was taken up almost entirely by the Pinewood Derby (more on that later), and Sunday was a whirl of shoveling, putting Xmas decorations away, taking down the tree, etc. I finally uncovered an hour of free time on Sunday afternoon and hit the rollers down in the basement, spinning (slowly) away while watching the Steelers beat up on the loathesome Philip Rivers and the Chargers.

At half-time, the studio guys come on and there they are: JB, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Shannon Sharpe, and Boomer Esiason. I notice all five are wearing flag lapel pins. I almost ride off the rollers and through the TV. Do you think all five decided independently to puncture their thousand-dollar suits with little enamel flags? Me thinks not.

Admittedly, this is a very small irritant in a constant sea of much bigger ones. But it frightens me.