The Super Bowl Brouhaha.

It was the day after Super Bowl last year. I was at work thinking of how to go about the day’s assignment of duties to my guys. Casually, one of them asked how I felt about “yesterday’s game”. Shrugging my shoulders nonchalantly, I answered that I did not watch the game. The guy asked if my team was not among the two teams that played. This time, my response was that I had no football team. At this stage, I wished he had left me alone in my thoughts. Rather, he went on to ask if I was one of “those people” who preferred basketball to football. Now exasperated, I looked at him and stated that I had no basketball team, no baseball team, no hockey team, no “nothing”.

Was he angry? “What kind of a guy are you…with no interest in sports?”

I retorted quickly that I had interest in soccer, boxing, martial arts and Track & Field.

“You can’t compare those ones with football!” he screamed like he was about to cry.

“Alright…fine…can we now get some work done?” I said firmly.

The guy sulked all day, not hiding his disdain for me.

Fast-forward to yesterday morning. I tried everything to avoid all discussions about the Super Bowl. But toward the end of the shift, I saw a patrol car trying to pull me over. It was my football-loving guy. Looking like he had the most important thing in the world to tell me, he said: “With all due respects sir…if you can watch the Super bowl, you’ll realize what you’ve been missing all your life…”

“Ah…okay.” I nodded my head in dismay at such a fanatic devotion. As he walked back to his car though, I decided subconsciously to watch the game.



 

 

 

 

 

What Really is the Matter With Some American Men?

This piece was inspired by a “strawberry letter” written to the Steve Harvey Radio Show this morning.

A man left his southern hometown for a better job prospect in a faraway city. Upon his arrival in the city, he met another man from his hometown who he described as “wonderful” and they began a “relationship”. All the while, the gay lover was still resident in the hometown, making the relationship more of a long-distance affair.

Then came a point in time, when the city man had to travel to his hometown to attend the wedding of a woman who he described as his best friend. Decked in a beautiful wedding gown and grinning from ear to ear was the “lucky” bride. But guess who the groom was? It was the guy who was in a deep gay relationship with the city man.

Shocked beyond words, the city man quietly left the wedding and was now wondering if he should tell his best friend (the bride) that the groom was “On the Down Low”, a term commonly used in describing men who are having sex with women and men. They are like bats. On the one hand, they are running with rats and, on the other hand, they are flying with birds.

Now, I personally don’t care what anyone does with his or her body in the privacy of their lives. After all, this is America, a land of liberty. But it’s grossly unfair for any man, as it is with the guy in this story, to deliberately expose the lives of women to unnecessary health risks that can lead to deaths. Why can’t such men simply make up their minds on what sexual orientation to abide with instead of trying to “eat their cake and have it”?

A lot of men with this “down low” nonsense are exposing their unsuspecting wives or girlfriends to undue grievous physical and emotional hazards. Yet, among these dysfunctional men are professionals (powerfully-dressed guys), celebrities, religious folks and even clergymen. They live a double life. In public, they parade themselves as being “happily” dating or married to women while, secretly, they are having sex with fellow men.

This is a shame!



 

 

 

 

 

Nigerians and Religious Posturings !!!

For God's sake, Nigerians!!! 

Is this the latest fad in the Christendom? Lately, I've been seeing pictures and videos of some Nigerians rolling on the ground while praying. In this picture is Pastor (or is he Bishop or Arch-Bishop?) Ayo Oritshejafor rolling on the floor during a prayer session in Abuja, Nigeria. 

I guess this new "style" has overtaken the usual act of "speaking in tongues" in religious posturing or playing to the gallery." This is very interesting. If we mortals are silly...definitely, God is not!