Ryan

In case you hadn’t heard, there have been rumors and now official reports that Jay Leno’s prime time talk show is going to be canceled.  This led to speculation of what NBC would do with their late night lineup.  Apparently NBC doesn’t want to part ways with any of their 3 late night hosts.  Here are a couple links to recent stories about this debacle:

CNN’s Story

People’s Story

The two stories have some conflicting information, which to me basically says that nothing is certain other than Leno is being cancelled from his 9pm CST slot.

On to point….
Why is it that stars who are past their prime won’t go out gracefully?  (we’ll consider that a rhetorical question)  Moreover, why do the organizations that hire them put up with their bullshit?  Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about what the Vikings have been able to do this season with Brett Favre lining up behind center, but I don’t agree with the road that got him here.  The Green Bay front office had the right idea in cutting him loose.  Is NBC foolish for allowing Leno to create this mess?  I think so.  The Vikings had a void to fill, and they went after an experienced veteran to fill it.  NBC created a spot for a “player” who had decided to retire and then changed his mind.  That experiment didn’t work out, and now that should be the end of it.  It doesn’t make sense to shake up your “play book” to try to fit another player in.  Too many men on the field.  Five yard penalty.  Repeat the down.

I had just finished reading a blog on a commercial website and was moving the mouse pointer to close the browser tab when one of the advertisements caught my eye. Unfortunately, before the the little guy in the control center on the left side of my brain could hit the big red “STOP” button, my finger clicked down on the left mouse button just as the pointer reached the “x” on the tab. I opened a new tab and navigated back to the blog page. Of course there was a different advertisement in place of the one I wanted to see.

Over the course of a couple of minutes and several refresh attempts I learned that the site in question has three main ads that come up often and several more that come up sporadically. Of course the ad that I was interested in would not come back up regardless of how many times I hit refresh and I had not seen enough of the ad to be able to find more information via the wonderful world of Google. Somewhat frustrated I decided to share my plight with the world and see if anyone else had suffered so. I did jump back to my other tab a couple of times for a few more refresh attempts. Somehow amazingly the ad I was interested in finally came up attempt #78. Just kidding about the #78, I did not actually count how many tries, but it did finally come up. As one could likely expect, the ad was not nearly as interesting when I read the whole thing. The end.

P.S.
Am I going to be judged for my use of commas and finishing my post with “The end.”?

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