The Titans of Mavericks would have run Thursday but for one small inconvenience.
Yesterday giant waves pummeled northern California’s most famous big wave surfing spot. “… one of the bigger days I’ve seen all year, and it was pumping so hard that it was throwing over,” surfer Galend Barbour told the Bay Area’s KRON 4 news. “Mavericks usually has this way of kind of crumbling and not really having a barrel. Today, there was so much force that there is literally walls of water just peeling over.”
Surfline, forecasting website with a predilection for dark kink, claimed 23 foot plus waves with gorgeous winds. Near perfect conditions. But no Titans of Mavericks event. Why?
That damned Super Bowl!
America’s grandest sporting spectacle is set to kick off this Sunday in nearby Santa Clara. The Denver Broncos, piloted by an aging gun-slinger, will take on the young, brash Carolina Panthers. Fun for most! Except the Titans of Mavericks organizers. Apparently they were told there were no police, sheriffs or even Coast Guard for them to use and, thus, they could not run their little thing. And so the best days in recent history when uncontested.
And son of a bitch. First catty infighting, then being outshone by Jaws, then getting busted for sexism and now this? Everyone is pinning hopes on El Nino bringing tons more contestable action so no worries, right? Right? RIGHT?
Do you think that made the Titans of Mavericks feel like their needs were met? Do you think they felt like equal citizens in this American democracy? Do surf lives matter?
beach grit littles are the winners in all this. big wave competitions are the nascar of surfing. the accepted left-turn (or right turn ) and then occasional crash? mundane, yes.
Equating Selma Alabama March 7 1965 to Pillar Point February 4 2016 was a bit of a stretch, but why replace the image with this blandness?
Seriously…at what point do we give up the charade and just play the game to an empty stadium? If an entire city has to be locked down because of one single event then we aren’t doing the right things…i.e. stop being PC about who we allow in the country (as a visitor or resident) and actually do some background on people associated with the event and look for anomalies. Chas…you’ve gone through Israeli airport security, right? Was there anything PC about that?
No! My blonde hair and blues eyes, paradoxically, saved me!
I have blond hair and blue eyes also but that doesn’t save me from some interesting questions upon my return from the ME.
shit I have blue eyes and a very suspect permanent tan , that’s my story and tanning is a sport in Strayla…
I just went through Israeli security, twice! And twice on El Al! Blonde or dusky, y’all get a shakedown.
Trust me…some people get more of a shakedown than others. Even a casual chat with the security (cough…Mossa agents) guys at El Al are verty enlightening.
I blame the zebra pants!
https://pmchollywoodlife.fi…
I want to see Chas in those.
you americans and your basketball
But the WSL gets 3 million views a comp – how is this possible?
I stayed awake all night trying to solve this conundrum and then it hit me. This is the Titans of Mavericks! The WSL, and their hundreds of millions of eyeballs, worldwide, are not involved…
how about Paul speakers connections at the NFL called all state and federal agencys , so no -one would be available to police the event, and there could be no dilution of the WSL/s billions of viewers , who are also avid NFL followers ….
Even better!
Maurice! Glad to see you survived the Santa Cruz rumble in the jungle…
it was tuff , but I squeaked thru another live and death situation , bloody RP’s alter ego was all pumped up and nowhere to go!
Haha! It wasn’t Rory BTW… Luke Skywalker was a 2nd account for A Party of Common Sense. I Looked though his comments on other websites before I blacklisted him. Some valid points laid out here and there but incapable of conversation or debate without veering into racist, dumb, violent and insulting comments…
Word of advice from a semi retired ex-internet hero… fighting with retarded trolls can be a serious time waster with no resolution.
Just downvote offending or stupid comments and it pops up on my mod panel to deal with… I ended up having to delete a good chuck of that thread, don’t really want this site to become a place for anonymous gutter dwellers to sling shit. Remember thats who you are arguing with…
if crew can’t front with their real name at the start of a heated debate, probably a good time to stop the conversation.
Said the guy posting as a Robot. ha! Matt McCrory here for the record.
hey Neg , yeah worked out who and what LS and POCS were the same , luv that shit. Had someone sitting here with me at the time who is a very dear friend who just went thru hell with his kid , we never give up with addicts or people who are are down and out depression you name it ….been thru a lot myself , and when I argue with a Troll a lot of people are also reading so I don’t back down and make sure that is people are reading that there is ananswer to the trolls….someone did visit here the other day ….sorted!! I was disappointed RP did not back up , but from what I hear he doesn’t do that , all good there are some things that I sort of don’t back down from ……all good ……enjoy posting here …..just be ready for the ol fossil to fire up everynow and then!!