{"id":8941,"date":"2011-09-08T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2011-09-08T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:42:35","slug":"strange-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/09\/08\/strange-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"strange sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I saw a man wearing a Ryan Leaf jersey last week.<\/p>\n<p>His face looked in one of the later-steps in the progression &#8220;Faces of Meth&#8221; images &#8212; maybe close enough to the middle image to create an ounce of doubt. \u00c2\u00a0Something figures, though, perhaps: \u00c2\u00a0maybe it was cheap and available at a thrift store.<\/p>\n<p>Find one, and wear it ironically to your NFL Fantasy League Draft Party. \u00c2\u00a0Though you&#8217;d probably be stuck &#8212; can you be ironic in such a setting?<\/p>\n<p>This makes me wonder&#8230; google &#8220;Ryan Leaf jersey&#8221; and what do we get?<br \/>\n<em>But, I&#8217;m finding myself wanting to send Tim Tebow a Ryan Leaf jersey.<br \/>\n<\/em>Interesting to note &#8212; I believe Tim Tebow&#8217;s jersey is a top-seller. \u00c2\u00a0Even though he&#8217;s a back-up quarterback, questionable on his starting abilities. \u00c2\u00a0With Tebow, it&#8217;s the &#8220;Jesus&#8221; factor that wins out. \u00c2\u00a0Michael Vick is another top-seller &#8212; that too has the &#8220;Jesus&#8221; factor in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>What jerseys make you laugh when you see people wearing them <strong>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>Then I saw another guy wearing good ol&#8217; Ryan Leaf jersey.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u00c2\u00a0finally saw my first Ryan Leaf jersey last Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it was out there.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone walked in front of the picture where you could read \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leaf\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the back.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was Ryan Leaf himself that I saw? \u00c2\u00a0(Sports Illustrated seemingly<a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/cover\/toc\/9756\/index.htm\"> wanting to pad their &#8220;Jinx&#8221; stats<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new NFL season &#8212; and remember the story of Jon Kitna and the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=g8tBIvnwpxcC&amp;pg=PA69&amp;lpg=PA69&amp;dq=%22Onward+Christian+Athletes%22+%22Jon+Kitna%22+%22Winning+for+Jesus+(but+finding+him+in+the+loss+column)%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=D3ahEfvhj6&amp;sig=-_q32Kf_BN92WO0cFtlGyJ2DUK0&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=2e5oTvyALebliAKwutyoDg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">feel good 2007 campaign with the Detroit Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I saw a man wearing a Ryan Leaf jersey last week. His face looked in one of the later-steps in the progression &#8220;Faces of Meth&#8221; images &#8212; maybe close enough to the middle image to create an ounce of doubt. \u00c2\u00a0Something figures, though, perhaps: \u00c2\u00a0maybe it was cheap and available at a thrift store. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}