More Bar Talk

I went out to the bar last night for the first time in about a week and a half or so (it felt longer). One reason I hadn't gone for a little while was the fact I got a bit sick of the same ol' "bar talk" from a few/couple people I know. The talks and jokes will go nicely until one begins to drink some and then he always resorts to insulting African-Americans. I don't use the word "always" lightly. Whenever the guy has a drink or two in him and he stays at the bar for over a half hour or so, you can expect to hear some racist remarks from him.

Last night, we were watching the Monday Night Football game on ESPN, Washington versus Philadelphia. What's this guy's comment? "There sure are a lot of negroes out there." Approximately 2/3 of the NFL are African-American. About 3/4 of the NBA is African-American. This isn't shocking news. It's not like the NFL was 90% Anglo-American last year and for whatever reason, it's only 1/3 Anglo this season.

He then commented on how he hates Eagles' quarterback Donovan McNabb. I asked why. He talked about hubcaps and eating too much chicken.

Talk about O.J. Simpson arose and this guy said, "Notice that all the NFL players who are involved in crime are black? Unless it's a white-collar crime?" I kind of rolled my eyes and said, "No." He laughed, like he couldn't believe what I said.

We brought up the topic of dogfighting and this guy stated that a white person could never be associated with it.

He and another were even chatting about the Olive Garden restaurant, after a commercial of theirs aired, that they'd never seen a "black family" at an Olive Garden. Eh, I don't go there too often, but just a week or two back, my family and I went and low and behold, there were two African-American families in the same room as us.

Another guy walked in and witnessed a Redskins' player scoring a touchdown and doing a little dance celebration afterward. This guy said, "Their points should be taken away for crap like that. Don't even penalize them 15 yards. Take their points away."

Another guy, whom I didn't know until last night, was pretty hammered and speaking pervertedly to these two gals next to me (whom I didn't know either until last night). Some of the things he said were funny since I was the outsider looking in, yet would have been quite embarrassing if I had known the guy and he was saying such things to these two ladies. The two women took the commentary well, laid some wise cracks back on him, and he actually left in a rather pissy mood because of one of them. We all kind of laughed about it afterward.

This same guy also made a ludicrous statement regarding football and bet me $1000 on his statement. I moved my hand forth in full stride, knowing darn well I'd win the money, but he decided not to follow through. His statement? All of the Nebraska Cornhuskers' offensive linemen run 4.20 40's (40 meter dash). Their starting tailback, Marlon Lucky, doesn't even run a 4.20 40 and he's one of the quickest players on the team. He ran a 4.43 40. But, 300-350 pound linemen running 4.20 40's? That's ridiculous. A friend of mine did some research last night and the quickest lineman ran a 4.88 40. Just 0.68 seconds slower than the sought after 4.20.

Interesting night, as always, but as I had presumed before last night, I'm getting sick of the bar scene. I can hear that kind of ignorant talk for free on Fox News.