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Football and television are totally more important!
In New Orleans, there was an asbestos-related case set to start its trial next Monday, January 22. However, the local football team, the Saints, are playing in the NFC Championship this Sunday, one day before the start date. It’s kind of a big deal, being the team’s first-ever Championship Game. So the defendants in the case filed a motion to move the trial’s start date forward two days, to January 24, “[i]n order to accommodate all fans, including the great majority of the jury pool, the parties involved in this case, and the counsel involved in the case, and in order to ensure that a full jury pool appears on the first day of trial.” And get this - the defendant’s attorney paid for this on his own: “The client is not paying for it…There’s no way I’m missing this game.”
The Court granted the motion, much to the relief of all involved. And I salute the Court - I’ve always known that football is more important than legal hoo-ha. And Deadspin adds:
A splendid idea, and you know what? They should suspend all relief efforts for the weekend too. Oh, they’ve kinda’ already done that.
Meanwhile, over in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis, a Democrat from California, took the floor on Wednesday, not to talk about football, but to talk about TV. She wanted to salute America Ferrera for winning a Golden Globe for her titular role in “Ugly Betty” and for “breaking down barriers for Latinos in prime-time television.” It’s good to know that Congress doesn’t have anything more important to do than worry about race representation on prime-time TV!
Comments
Absolut bullshit.
Posted by Mike | January 21, 2007 11:58 PM