I’m not the sharpest knife in anyone’s drawer, but I attempt to do the best with what’s available to me. Which brings about two (quick?) stories. First, for years I couldn’t stand the Beatles. I refused to listen to them because what I’d heard stunk. But people loved the Beatles, so I would never say they sucked. I knew there was something about them I was missing, and thus the onus was on me to figure out what that something was, rather than pass them off as crappy and move my tunnel vision along to the next thing. Similarly, I remember being presented with a plate of foie gras during a business trip to New Zealand back in 2001; the fattened liver of a duck or goose. People *love* this thing, it’s a delicacy. Unfortunately, it remains one of the few things I’ve tasted I absolutely could not finish. The blame lies not with the fattened liver, but with my taste. Thus I don’t indicate that foie gras sucks but that my palate requires maturation.
The moral of the story? Saying Starbucks sucks and Tim Horton’s rules really says more about you than your choice of coffee.
But now I must go from provokee to provoker…
The CFL plans to sell the Grey Cup naming rights as soon as before this next season, with the most likely suitors being Tim Horton’s, Wendy’s, or Rona. Is this at all upsetting to any co-bloggers around here?
The Beatles later material is fantastic. Very experimental and far superior to their more pop-ish type earlier stuff.
I couldn’t care any less about coffee. One vice I am glad I don’t have.
It’s the Grey Cup – I could care less.
The Beatles and the Beach Boys were both amazing when they were drugged out of their gourds.
It didn’t surprise me to hear that they plan to sell the name of the Grey Cup. It seems like everything in the CFL is for sale these days. Now I have to say I do think it cheapens the whole experience and the last thing I want to hear is a team was won the Tim Horton’s Grey Cup or Simply the Tim Horton’s Cup (Shudder). About the only positive that I see here is its actions like this that have saved the CFL. If we remember back a few years the whole league was in financial ruin. It was only through the over advertising and corporate sponsorship that the league has survived and is now thriving.
But is still going to leave a bad taste in my mouth to see the Greatest Thorphy in Canadian sports cheapened like this.
How is the Stanley Cup getting cheapened by the CFL selling the name of theirs?