R-word VS. Rword

Just watching @AroundTheHorn on ESPN, they were talk about the problem with the name of the DC football team. So a couple people called it the #Rword. I hope people do not start relating the #Rword with the #NFL and really realize how derogatory it really is to the disabled!

I am not saying the disability movement has exclusive rights to the R-word. Even if someone has  the copy right for a word does not mean they own every meaning of that word. Words are the only weapon that truly has an unlimited amount of ammunition. I am saying if the R-word is used for multiple meaning it will become trivialized and is not that why there is a R-word in the first place?

Sunday NFL Rituals

This week I heard that the Baltimore Ravens fans are the most superstitious fans in the NFL. Well I would not call what I do a superstition, but surely a ritual. When know we are going tailgating, I try to get in the hot shower a couple minutes extra in order to let the warm water relax my bladder. Even though I just went to the bathroom, I still like to make sure all of the Urine is out.  Especially when we go out to tailgate, because I never know how long it will be before I see an accessible bathroom.  In addition, sometimes I drink more then others. At all cost I do try to stay away from the beer, Natty Boh and Bud are favorites down there and those suckers go right through you.

A Very Bi-Pallor Day

Sunday was 9/11, but it was also the Ravens season opener.
Michael, Wifey and I took Fizz Caps tailgating, of course we got a later start then we wanted. The whole day turned out to be a day of timing.

By the time we were turning off of 83 in Baltimore it was 9:02, if we were not stopped the light. We would not have heard the bell chiming all around the city.  If was fitting that the day started out with over cast skies to make you reflect on the events of tens years ago.

Last year when we took Fizz Caps tailgating we kept going to the same lot, it was out of the way. So we decided to drive around and check out other parking options. Although, it was exciting seeing the sea of purple you still reflect on what this day is really about, coming together as a nation.  We were drive down one street and see a lot of people waving for parking spaces.

We find the perfect spot between two houses, paid $30 for the space and $10 to set up our tent.  As soon as we popped our tent, another guy comes saying this is his space and will have all these cars towed.  The first guy we paid was a squatter, so after working things out with the owner. We could stay, but would have paid another $40. Talk about a pre-game!

The wife of the couple that ran the parking across the street notice our situation and said they still had spaces and could setup our booth.  They both knew who we were, the husband works for Social Sec. as a photographer and heard wifey and I speak at a luncheon and shared our store with his wife. Thanks Raven Roost 50  for letting us crash your party and the lot was really rocking.

Even through we were not close to the stadium, we were in the path of the jet fly over.  I had the chill and goose bumps at the same time, if possible?

As we hit 695 on the way to Michael’s, we rode with a group of bikers, riding for 9/11. As we drove close to the Dulaney Valley Bridge, there was a flag hanging from two fire trunks.  The tears just began to flow.