Welcome to the final Friday Screencaps for August where we give thanks to the patio gods for the great weather we’re about to experience this weekend. I’m talking 80 degrees and sunny today. 82 and sunny Saturday and 87 and sunny on Sunday.
Here’s what I want you to do right now. Go hide all the pumpkin spice candles your wife has out. Replace them with Yankee Candle’s ‘Sun & Sand’ candles. Or a variation. If you don’t have that scene, go buy it today on your lunch break. It’s still summer, dammit!
Moving along….what a week for the golf industry and commercials. I’m sure you guys have been following the Good Good vs. Callaway drama. Let this serve as a reminder that it isn’t hard to make a golf commercial. For example, look at how Chili’s made this commercial, or social media content, with PGA golf wife Jena Sims. This is how you make a golf commercial that won’t get canceled.
You hire a hot woman. You have her hit a golf ball off a cart barn, everyone laughs, the hot woman smiles, everyone feels great and woke mobs don’t even blink.
“At least I look cute,” Sims says as she hits one off the barn. Exactly.
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• Thank you to all of you who took time to subscribe this week to the Screencaps YouTube page. I had no idea so many people would want to hear my take on viral videos, but here we are over 1k and rolling along.
• Screencaps Jr. turns 14 today. The best part about this age for me is watching him handle himself in public. Wednesday night, he needed new spikes for cross-country, so I took him to the local running shoe store. When we walked in, I told him to handle the conversation with the clerk, who is a cross-country runner himself. I stayed out of it.
One of my biggest goals with my kids is for them to be able to handle themselves in public and have the ability to read a room. He handled himself the other night like a pro. It was fun to watch.
• Speaking of running, the road to the Ohio Jr. High State Championships starts tomorrow in Celina, OH. I still can’t believe where we’re at today vs. a year ago with cross-country. I had never been to a cross-country event. I’d never watched it online. Not a single immediate family member had ever run.
Now? We’re pumped up to get on the road and drive 90 minutes to watch a 12-minute race. The hope is that he’ll be running sub-12 to start the season. We’ll see. There’s a sinus cold going through the house. It’s time to power through.
God bless those of you who deal with this stuff week after week. I love watching football, but I don’t think I could possibly stand to be living inside this world.
– Tom T. loves having football back: Just sitting here watching the Maine Black Bears v Towson State (MD) Tigers on Monumental Sports Network… football is back.
I don’t know what it is about the game that has drawn me in since I was 6 years old. I only played organized football for 3 years, but I love it wholeheartedly. I sat in front of the TV by myself as a kid and watched it all… Archie Griffin, Sonny Jergenson, Army v Navy, Anthony Davis and USC v Notre Dame.. an epic comeback, Bear Bryant, #1 Buckeyes getting beat on the last play by Sparty, ABC World Wide of Sports and Keith Jackson. Fast forward to App State beating Michigan, tailgates, fantasy football.
Here is a re-cap of that Buckeye v Sparty game … The Upset That Time Forgot: MSU Topples No. 1 Ohio State – Pigskin Dispatch
Football is great because we all still care. These games are more compelling than any Premier League or World Cup match. God Bless the USA and God Bless football!
– Jess in Alabama emails: CHRIS SALE! That’s it. And hopefully the site can have a few headlines today featuring the Braves surprisingly sweeping the Dodgers instead of the WNBA. Thanks for all you do!
Kinsey: Why was Sale’s kid shocked? His dad was allowed to go back out and pitch the 9th inning in a 1-0 game while nearing 100 pitches. Sales ended up with 109 pitches. Why is this impressive? Because no pitcher in Major League Baseball has more than one complete game shutout this season. There have been just nine this season.
– Jase asks: What do you think about the NFL discontinuing the Pro Bowl as a game? I’m surprised it took this long. The only All-Star Game I still watch is MLB.
Kinsey: I’m convinced the NFL will replace it with some sort of flag football championship. Don’t think for a second the NFL is going to give up that weekend to the NBA. That’s not happening. They’re cooking up something and with flag football at the 2028 Olympics, I’m expecting them to use this open weekend for their new baby, NFL Flag.
– Chris B. in Florida/North Carolina emails: A few years ago — well into the Commanders’ era — I was checking out of a hotel in Baker City, Oregon (there’s a whole other story, but it’s not relevant to this). The desk clerk, who was clearly Native American (probably Payute or Nez Perce in that area, but I didn’t ask) was wearing an old-school Redskins cap. I complimented him on it and his excellent use of irony, and he just thanked me and laughed.
– Philly Ray in MN shares: Your story about the kid needing to raise $600 for school reminded me of my favorite fundraiser. Our neighbor’s son played on the high school football team and they sold, and delivered water softener salt before the season started. He even emptied the bags into the softener so he got some extra lifting and saved me a trip to Home Depot (not sponsored). Please get rid of the coupon books, wrapping paper and magazine subscriptions for something most people can use.
Kinsey: The local boys lacrosse team delivers mulch in the spring. This is the first I’m hearing of a water softener salt fundraiser. I’m with you. Provide something we can all use and let’s talk business. Or I’ll just give cash. The marching band kids come through with a bucket. I’m fine with that.
– ‘Sheriff’ John in Houston says donate a little more and the benefits are actually pretty good: I think I’ve written you about this subject before, but this year – my last year of having a kid in school – I explicitly told the football coach and the band director earlier this month that I was making the maximum “family sponsorship” to the respective booster clubs ($500 apiece) and did not intend for my son to participate in the organized begging this year (otherwise known as “fundraising”). Neither party complained and thus far it has been quite pleasant getting to avoid the constant shaming and I don’t feel guilty at all.
An interesting aspect – when you make the maximum sponsorship you get all kinds of goodies in return: spirit merchandise, a discount code for more merchandise for family members, your name on the t-shirt, and your name at the top of the membership list that literally is emailed out once a month. When you give in to the begging nowadays you don’t get anything in return anymore, not even a World’s Finest chocolate bar. I wish I had thought of this sooner.
As promised, here’s a look at the work we’ve been putting in. Looking at where we’re at now vs. where we were just a couple of years ago is startling. We actually have hydrangeas that look great and crisp edges thanks to my new Stihl tools.
Go enjoy your weekend. You’ve earned it.