I was browsing around ESPN.com just now and started reading a headline about former Oakland Raiders Center Barret Robbins, who went AWOL just before the Super Bowl a few years ago and then fell down a messy slope involving drugs, positive steroids tests and jail time. The story revealed that Robbins blamed himself for the Raiders’ Super Bowl loss, and his overall demeanor now that he has been released from prison and is now in a halfway house. Normally a story like this would have absolutely no bearing on the day-to-day life of VLM, until I saw this passage:
Former Oakland Raiders center Barret Robbins is in a halfway house following court-mandated drug rehabilitation and said in an interview with Fox 26 in Houston he’s finally “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Now, maybe I’m reading to much into this and taking an ordinary phrase the wrong way, but does anyone else read that and get “Candle (Sick and Tired)” by The White Tie Affair stuck in their brain? I don’t mean to bash a guy while he’s down, since a) dude’s been through a lot, and b) “Candle” is a pretty good song, but couldn’t he have come up with another way of putting how he was feeling? Did we really have to insert song lyrics into every day life? Just a random thought for the next few minutes.
The White Tie Affair – Candle (Sick and Tired) [iTunes] (YSI)
Robbins says he’s looking to his future – ESPN.com
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