Lou Pickney's Online Commentary
Night On The Town
Saturday
June 28, 2003
At the bachelor party last night for Brent Hatley (Bubba the Love Sponge's Executive Producer), guess who showed up at not one but two different strip clubs that we were at? None other than comedian Bill Maher, who had been in town doing a comedy show that night at the
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Talk about surreal: I turned to my right and there was Bubba and WWE's Edge (who is a really nice guy) up in the VIP section with me. I turned to my left and saw Maher. In the middle were some of Tampa's finest strippers. Good times.
|  | | Comedian Bill Maher is most noted for his work as host of the show Politically Incorrect. |
As for the rest of the party... it was a tremendously fun time. I'm 98% sure that I saw a former co-worker at Channel 10, Melissa Liberman, over at the Village Inn when we were making our last stop of the night to grab some grub. I intended to go say hello to her, but she left when I wasn't looking.
The number of interested stations in picking up the BTLS show has gone way up this week. It's no coincidence, given that Spring book is done. Unfortunately, we did lose out on WXEG in Dayton (which decided to go with a local show). But you can't win them all.
Am I the only person who's disturbed at the notion of a U.S. Senator from South Carolina grandstanding in Washington D.C. about community standards in Detroit? Here's the article: Hollings-Sponsored Indecency Amendment Approved
I need to go buy the new
Type O Negative CD (titled "Life Is Killing Me"). Amy tells me that it's really really good.
|  | | Andre Rison won a Super Bowl with the 1996 Green Bay Packers. |
One rule that I'd like to see the
NFL change is the rule concerning suspended players who are not on a roster. In the case of 37-year-old WR
Andre Rison, he faces a four game suspension for a substance abuse violation. Rison hasn't been in the league since 2000, primarily because he'd have to serve that suspension upon his return. For the 2001 season, that's fair; he violated the rules and got caught and has to face the consequences. But shouldn't there be a one-year limit on the suspension? In essence it makes Rison nearly unemployable, despite his talents, because no team wants him sitting on the shelf for the first four games out of the gate.
Wouldn't it have been judicious to drop the suspension requirement after the passing of one full season? I'd think being blackballed for a year is punishment enough. But in essence the looming suspension can become a career-ender, simply because of when he got in trouble (had it happened to Rison in mid-season in 2000, he would've sat it out, been eligible to sign elsewhere without reprise in 2001, and had his career continue as it should).
|
