It's All's Good?

A week after Judy Bench sat alone and empty during a sparsely attended 'Wam football game, the veterans came home making an otherwise gray day seem sunny and warm.

Smiles from all

While all was well at the 'Wam, all was not well on the world wide web when 'Wam veteran and blog publisher Brewster Burns logged on to update this week's blog and found an advertisement for Mitt Romney in the banner ad to the right of the blog.

The clicks tell the story:
'Wam blog pageviews, by country

"Look," said a disgusted Burns, "I thought Google had great data on all it's users and tailored the ads for the person viewing the page.  I'm not Matt Corbett.  I'm a liberal, for cripes sake.  I'm about as likely to vote for Romney as I am calling ends-in, halfbacks-out on fourth an 30. It just doesn't make any sense."

While an angry Burns considered pulling the banner ad from the blog, he is concerned that losing the three ad-clicks with an estimated earnings of $1.65 over the last two years might prove to be a devastating blow to the marketability of the 'Wam brand. "We're just starting to get global traction: while our biggest emerging market is Germany, we're very excited about what's happening in Russia (see "Pageviews," left). We know it's called Коснитесь футбол there, but we think we have a chance of some serious expansion. One of the stumbling blocks is going to iron out the different rule interpretation.  They allow some blocking techniques that we outlawed in the 90's (see photo, right)."

Russian touch football -- so passionate,
they play in the streets!

When contacted by phone later in the week, Burns was asked if he had decided whether to drop the banner ad from the page . "No, it's all good.  I'm getting ads for laxatives and blood pressure meds again."