{"id":12359,"date":"2011-12-02T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12359"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:32:29","slug":"qotd-pretty-sure-we-as-a-country-were-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/qotd-pretty-sure-we-as-a-country-were-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Pretty sure we, as a country, were drunk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I was at the urinal next to Bob Costas once. It was at the 2010 Winter Olympics, just before the Closing Ceremony, during which Canada said goodbye to the world with a nightmarish glowing dreamscape of giant beavers and plaid-wearing lumberjacks and dancing Mounties and flying moose and looming table hockey players and William Shatner, among others. Pretty sure we, as a country, were drunk.<\/p>\n<p>But Bob Costas was not drunk, because Costas is a sober and professional man who disapproves of you and your shenanigans, probably. Costas is among the great broadcasters of his generation, as witnessed most recently by his stellar on-camera interview with accused Penn State pedophile Jerry Sandusky. And despite some creases in his face, and perhaps a whisper of greying hair, Costas remains youthful, even boyish.<\/p>\n<p>Like just about everything in television, however, that is at least partly a facade, as Costas\u2019 monologue on <em>Football Night in America<\/em> on Sunday last week demonstrated. As if channeling Andy Rooney in 1978, Costas inferred that touchdown celebrations are basically ruining the minds of our children, with their iPhones and their pornography and their touchdown dances. If life is a football field, it is time to leave Bob Costas\u2019s lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Arthur,<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/02\/nfl-picks-week-13-nfl-players-can-dance-if-they-want-to\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;NFL Picks, Week 13: NFL players can dance if they want to&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2011-12-02<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the urinal next to Bob Costas once. It was at the 2010 Winter Olympics, just before the Closing Ceremony, during which Canada said goodbye to the world with a nightmarish glowing dreamscape of giant beavers and plaid-wearing lumberjacks and dancing Mounties and flying moose and looming table hockey players and William Shatner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,26,57,28,41,18],"tags":[598,179,314,101],"class_list":["post-12359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-football","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-sports","tag-aging","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65614,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions\/65614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}