Got The To Do Flu
I got the to-do flu?
How about you?
Got too many things to do?
Got you down, got you blue?
Sort of feels like the flu?
How do you do!
Guess I was channeling my inner Dr. Seuss. But there are a bunch of topics to catch up on. So without further ado . . .
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I HATE TO SEE Sen. Boots retire. Full disclosure, he is not just a shareholder in the company that owns The Little Paper That Could, but he is someone I look up to. He’s taught me a lot about business over the last 18 years and, as Sen. Luke Kenley told me once, Boots might be one of the smartest guys in the Senate. I would not disagree.
He did not run for re-election last time, so when the voting is all said and done in November he’ll become former Sen. Phil Boots. That also means Montgomery County will lose a favorite son representing our interests in Indy.
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YOU KNOW me. Every now and then I just can’t help but comment on sports news. But the recent death of a high school football player in a game in the panhandle of Texas is too much. A lifetime or two ago I used to be the sports editor of the Odessa American, a wonderful newspaper in the middle of west Texas and not too far away from where this game occurred.
It is maddening to find out that another young person lost their life to a head injury. When will high school, college and professional football governing bodies wake up?
The thing that no one ever seems to talk about is that racing helmets are designed to handle 200+ mph collisions with brick walls. How many racers do you hear with severe concussions, lifelong brain issues and even death from head injuries. How is it that the manufacturers of racing helmets can figure this out but football helmets can’t seem to survive two players running into each other at perhaps a combined speed of 30 or 40 mph?
Somebody, anybody, FIX THIS!
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SPEAKING OF football, can anyone tell me what is wrong with Noblesville High School football? The Millers, once a proud program, have not had a winning seasons in the last two decades. A quick look at a web site maintained by the magnificent John Harrell shows the last winning season at NHS was in 2001 – no one on the roster was even born.
No winning seasons in two decades?
Look, it may not be world peace were talking about here, but not one winning season since 2001? When is someone going to do something?
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WANT TO GO along on a trip with me? Well, at least in spirit? This November, I am hoping to begin a pilgrimage that I can share with you through words and pictures. Stay tuned for more details.
Two cents, which is about how much Timmons said his columns are worth, appears periodically on Thursdays in The Times. Timmons is the chief executive officer of Sagamore News Media, the company that owns The Noblesville Times. He is also a proud Noblesville High School graduate and can be contacted at [email protected].