‘Change’ is Inevitable: College Football Leaders-a penny’s Swan Song
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Adios to the U.S. Copper Penney. It was always coming, but officially the U.S. Treasury is discontinuing the penny. What a run. The Penny. 1 Cent. 1 Cent. Think about that. One Cent. In this economy, the idea of one cent or even 1 dollar means absolutely nothing.
We are in the late stages of the Monopoly Board game, and the ones, fives, and tens are no longer needed. It’s all 50’s, 100’s, and 500’s now. Land on the wrong space and it might break you forever.
The Penny will be romanticized and immortalized by people like me, but I do not believe it will be missed in the everyday transaction. It just means things are going to be different.
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You know? I’ve got a tennis ball full of pennies. I would’ve done that back when I was 16 to get stronger for baseball. I put a little slice in the tennis ball and just kept feeding in the pennies until it was packed tight. I’d throw it against a trampoline type backstop at least 30 or so times to warm up. Let me tell you, a baseball feels like air once you’ve hurled a penny-stuffed tennis ball a few times. That’s old school stuff right there. My late grandfather would’ve encouraged that sort of training. He also told me to practice barefoot because it would make me tougher. Some sage wisdom taken and some left.
Pennies had a good run though. In my Grandad’s childhood, he could have bought a bottle of coke for just five of them, candy for a penny a piece, and an entire roast chicken if you had one hundred or so. That’s all it took back then. Just a few pennies a day. “Yessir. Times are achanging” as Everett might say in the Coen’s “O, Brother.” Times will always change. That’s how the world continues to progress down through the generations. Change is inevitable.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL LEADERS
One thing that hasn’t changed this week is the best Kicker in College Football this season. Hawaii Kicker Kansei Matsuzawa is now 20/20 for the year and continues to lead the line of the other Kickers that are perfect for the season.
Perfect Kickers:
- Matsuzawa-Hawaii
- Carter Davis-Miami
- Tanner Rinker -Utah St
- Stephen Rusnak -Cincinatti
- Patrick Durbin -Tulane
- Nicolas Radicic- Indiana
- Luca Lombardo- Boston College
- Laith Marjan- Kansas
- Kian Afrookhteh- Coastal Carolina
- Gabriel Plascencia- San Diego St.
Another thing that hasn’t changed this week is the leader in rushing touchdowns. Washington Running Back Jonah Coleman continues to lead the land with an impressive 12.
Let’s keep going–
TOP QB:
The same two QB’s are leading the country in Touchdowns as last week but now one more joins them at the top. TCU’s Josh Hoover, Baylor’s Sawyer Robertson, and Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza each have 21 passing touchdowns.
TOP WR
Indiana Wide Receiver Elijah Sarratt leads the Nation All by himself with an impressive nine (9).
You know? Now that I think about it, it makes complete sense why Indiana is as good as they are. They’re not just one of the most physical teams in the land, they’re elite at QB, WR, and have one of the few perfect Kickers left. Indiana is really good at football. Like I said, Change is inevitable. Indiana is proof of that. That’s a basketball school. Ron Swanson says so.
I wonder what Ron would say about the Penny being eliminated. “Good. Less work for the government.” Probably something like that.
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“A penny saved is a penny earned.” That phrase sounds as archaic as “Et tu, Brute” at this point. Embrace the change. It is inevitable.
The End.
Find the Humor and Keep on Movin’
Whit W.