Many thanks to IN PLAY LOSE follower Phonerz J. Magratheazaphod for passing along this little bit of incompetence from the world of the NFL. It's one of the more baffling contract snafus of recent memory, involving defensive lineman Elvis Dumervil of the Denver Broncos. Or, at least, he used to be with the Broncos. Read on from this link from Yahoo! football guru Michael Silver:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--what-the-fax--elvis-dumervil-contract-snafu-could-shift-balance-of-power-in-afc---002225119.html
Who the hell uses fax machines anymore? I've always HATED fax machines. They always struck me as proof positive of my assertion that the more humans perfect technology, the more technology acts like humans – for better and most certainly for worse, and fax machines always act like idiots. Fax machines just aren't the mood a lot of the time. They break for no apparent reason, just DON'T FEEL like working sometimes, and the number of important docs I've had come out sideways on wrinkled, crumpled paper are too many to count. One of the finer moments of my professional existence occurred at a Credit Union where I was a temp when my boss instructed me to help him gravity test the fax machine and we promptly threw it off the balcony of a 3-story building. It pleases me to report that gravity was working that day.
Jeez, couldn't Dumervil's agent just quickly snap a bunch of instagrams of the contract's pages and email them? There's no precedent for that, but its better than sitting around getting busy signals on one end and PC – LOAD LETTER error messages on the other.
The LOSE apologizes for hibernating longer than the Chicago Cubs here. We'll get it going at some point here soon. There always seems to plenty of time for losing, but maybe not enough time to write about it.
“... everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
