What sort of idiot is in charge

when is the championship game?

"I know this is important to you honey, and I know this happens only once a year, and pretty soon you'll be too old to do this...but I've got to watch football! Find your own way there."

You picked football over your child??? LOSER!!!

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Originally posted by BFred07:
of the Sheffield Christmas parade. For at least the last 2 years it has been scheduled during the SEC championship game. Do they just not know or is it some big 10 weirdo making this decision? The past 2 years one of my kids have been in the parade but I told her she was gonna have to find another ride and I was not gonna be there. I would loved to go but well,...sorry.
Scheduling an event during the SEC championship game is so stupid that it's not even worth insulting!

Ever hear of taping a game?

lol, there is no shortage of parades she's in this year or last year so it's not just once a year. I'll catch the one in Muscle Shoals next week.
Tool: Before you reply in ignorance try and think that I have other kids too and with one of them in particular we watch football together and as I said, plenty of parades to attend for my older daughter so it ain't that big a deal.
Jennifer: Tape it, I don't think so.

The part that is a big deal is that the attendance (from what I hear and can see from video) is very low and they should just plain know better than to schedule a parade during such a big event. Seems if you are having a parade that you would want a lot of people to come.

what about your spouse, can they help you out?

also i agree with you about the timing of this parade. not to good.

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Originally posted by adamryan1121:
you do realize that not everyone's life revolves around football, right?

given the choice between watching my child march in a parade for an hour and sitting through 4 hours of football and mindless tv ads, i'd pick my child everytime. esp when i have the option of EASILY recording the hour's worth of the game i'm watching. but that's just me.

Whatever event someone might be planning, whether it be a Christmas Parade, wedding, party, etc then you might want to take a look at what other events are going on at the same time because YES, planning any event revolves around any bigger event that might be going on at the same time.Take a look at the Christmas parades in Florence, Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals. Lot's and lots of people attend but in Sheffield there are not all that many. Their planning for the parade was very poor and a sign that they just don't give a crap if it's a success or not.
Already addressed the issue about plans with one of my kids vs another but really the fact is that had I not been watching the game with one of my sons and had gone to the parade then I would have been glued to the radio like I hear tell a lot of other parents with kids in the parade were doing and just looked up and cheered for the 20 seconds it takes her to go by.
Electraglide: I told he she could either ask my wife to take her, one of her older brothers, or call her mom or grandma to take her so yea there was plenty of help.

i found out: the game was today.

ya know, like the guy said.. not every ones lives revolve around football.

i didn't know the game was today. i didn't care the game was today.

it's possible that the people who organized the parade didn't care either.
i don't mean " oh, pooh, i don't care about that game, we'll do the parade this saturday."

i mean after the parade is over one of them says "what? there was a game today? "

some of us just don't care. not interested.
football isn't relevent. we don't think ' oh.. well.. before i make plans to do this, i better make sure there isnt' a game on'...
the fact that a game might be on doesn't even occur to us.
nothing that happens on that field will affect my life in any way at all, i see no point in wasting 4 hours of my life in watching it.

just because watching other people do something you'll never acctually be a part of is so important to you that you ignore your child, (what a great dad.) there are more of us that think our kids are more important than watching a bunch a sweaty guys slapping each other on the butt while they fondle a big ball.

what a pathetic example of parenting.
you seem to be proof that being able to donate sperm doesn't make one a father.

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Originally posted by thenagel:
i found out: the game was today.

ya know, like the guy said.. not every ones lives revolve around football.

i didn't know the game was today. i didn't care the game was today.

it's possible that the people who organized the parade didn't care either.
i don't mean " oh, pooh, i don't care about that game, we'll do the parade this saturday."

i mean after the parade is over one of them says "what? there was a game today? "

some of us just don't care. not interested.
football isn't relevent. we don't think ' oh.. well.. before i make plans to do this, i better make sure there isnt' a game on'...
the fact that a game might be on doesn't even occur to us.
nothing that happens on that field will affect my life in any way at all, i see no point in wasting 4 hours of my life in watching it.

just because watching other people do something you'll never acctually be a part of is so important to you that you ignore your child, (what a great dad.) there are more of us that think our kids are more important than watching a bunch a sweaty guys slapping each other on the butt while they fondle a big ball.

what a pathetic example of parenting.
you seem to be proof that being able to donate sperm doesn't make one a father.

Geez Nagel, when you speak about parenting you're really speaking out of ignorance and do not seem to know much. You obviously have a lot to learn about parenting if you think making it to every event for each of your children is possible when it can and has meant I would have to be in as many as 5 places at the same time. The daughter in the parade is in several other parades in the area every year including other Christmas parades and no I do not go to all of them. But I would pit my record of quality time and involvemnet with my kids against anyone including you so I would not go there with your idiotic statements.
The point of the post is the poor planning of the event. It does not matter if the people planning the parade care anything about watching the game, going to the game, or anything else. What does matter is to make plans for cummunity events for times that are convenient for most of the community to want to attend. In other words it does not matter if the event planners were football fans, they just need to realize that a large number of people will not attend if they are so arrogant to think the world is supossed to revolve around their parade.

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Originally posted by BFred07:
Geez Nagel, when you speak about parenting you're really speaking out of ignorance and do not seem to know much. You obviously have a lot to learn about parenting if you think making it to every event for each of your children is possible when

nope. i have 2, and i can't make it to all of their functions, but i don't ever put a tv show ahead of one of theirs, and tell em 'good luck on getting to your thing,"

i don't care how you raise your kids... but making sure your daughter knows that she isn't as important as a ballgame might not be the best message to give your child.

pathetic.

the game was officially over at 6:46, but in reality it was over much earlier than that. how long does it take to make it down to a parade? i don't know excatly what time the parade was, but when exactly is more convenient time than say, 7-7:30 on a saturday night?

i could be wrong, but i haven't seen any parade organizers complaining about the turnout. if they're fine with it, then what exactly is the problem? they aren't doing it for profit. they're putting in on for the community; for people who want to attend. people make the choice to come, some don't. its that easy.

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Originally posted by thenagel:

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Originally posted by BFred07:
Geez Nagel, when you speak about parenting you're really speaking out of ignorance and do not seem to know much. You obviously have a lot to learn about parenting if you think making it to every event for each of your children is possible when

nope. i have 2, and i can't make it to all of their functions, but i don't ever put a tv show ahead of one of theirs, and tell em 'good luck on getting to your thing,"

i don't care how you raise your kids... but making sure your daughter knows that she isn't as important as a ballgame might not be the best message to give your child.

pathetic.

Yep, ignorance and some need you have to argue. I had already said I was watching the game with one of my sons,guess he doesn't matter huh?. Is it because that in picking between the two of them tonight that the game happened to be my preference that makes it so bad? Common sense would tell us that if one of my adult children was coming up from school for the weekend and one of the things we do together is watch football that I might spend some time with him while he's home and watch the game with him and one of my other sons who also likes to watch football. On the other hand, we have my daughter, shes a pretty active kid and if I tried to make it to every parade she is in, every play she is in, all the softball games, band performances, charity stuff and all the other things she does then there would be no time for any of the other kids or even a job for that matter. According to nagel of course I am either supposed to ignore my other kids or maybe I am supposed to feel guilty or something if I miss out on one of her things when what I'm doing with one of the other kids is actually what I would prefer to do when I have to choose. The "find your own way" thing was a joke which I think was obvious, I have already said that my wife could take her or that she could ask one of her older brothers to go too or she could call and ask her mom or get her grandma to also come to the parade. Didn't exactly leave her out in the cold. Additionally this "sperm donor" is not just a father but until I remarried a few years back I was mom and dad to 3 kids (have two more now) so as I said you should really not speak out of ignorance on a subjuct you know nothing about.

Obviously, I'm an Auburn fan; and I enjoyed the outcome of the game.

However, I think it is unreasonable to expect that everyday life should revolve around events on the football schedule. And this includes the Super Bowl. Football needs to be taken in proportion to what it is, just a game.

We don't sing Iron Bowl or Super Bowl carols yet, do we?

There's likely a committee so I would suggest joining it.

But in reality, someone is going to get squeezed. Take for instance, this week there's Muscle Shoals on the 9th and Florence on the 10th. Next week is the Div II Football championship, and after that Christmas. You could have it during the week but turnout is still likely to be low and too close people are busy shopping.

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Originally posted by ryokurin:
There's likely a committee so I would suggest joining it.

But in reality, someone is going to get squeezed. Take for instance, this week there's Muscle Shoals on the 9th and Florence on the 10th. Next week is the Div II Football championship, and after that Christmas. You could have it during the week but turnout is still likely to be low and too close people are busy shopping.

Yep, Tuscumbia had their Christmas parade November 30th which was a Tuesday and had a pretty decent crowd, Muscle Shoals will be this coming Thursday and Florence will be Friday and both will likely as in years past draw a pretty good crowd. Planning an event for the entire community is something that takes a lot of work and a lot of thought, I already know that I would not have time to serve on such a committe but I sure will leave them some feeback about how good or bad a job I think they did. Apparently the ones that wanted to be in charge of the parade were not willing to put in the time and thought such an event requires.

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Originally posted by BFred07:

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Originally posted by ryokurin:
There's likely a committee so I would suggest joining it.

But in reality, someone is going to get squeezed. Take for instance, this week there's Muscle Shoals on the 9th and Florence on the 10th. Next week is the Div II Football championship, and after that Christmas. You could have it during the week but turnout is still likely to be low and too close people are busy shopping.

Yep, Tuscumbia had their Christmas parade November 30th which was a Tuesday and had a pretty decent crowd, Muscle Shoals will be this coming Thursday and Florence will be Friday and both will likely as in years past draw a pretty good crowd. Planning an event for the entire community is something that takes a lot of work and a lot of thought, I already know that I would not have time to serve on such a committe but I sure will leave them some feeback about how good or bad a job I think they did. Apparently the ones that wanted to be in charge of the parade were not willing to put in the time and thought such an event requires.

I doubt one person will have much sway with the committee.