Wow.......Just Wow.........What were they thinking....

Welcome to my blog post entitled What were they thinking?  It will cover an array of topics including everything from Sports, to Regular Topics and everything in between!! Some posts will only have a few topics on this, other times there will be many topics. If you have one you would like placed in an upcoming blog post, please send it to me at cupofjoeinthed@gmail.com or at;  @cupofjoeinthed on twitter.

Sports

•  The Lions seem hell bent on waiting to discuss Calvin Johnson's future until after February 26 season ticket deadline where deposits must be in for the 2016 season.. Possible Collusion?
• Goodell receives $34.1 M from the NFL in compensation for the year of 2014 and rumored $44M+ for 2015? He must love being the Owners puppet for all that money....money...money.....
• University of Tennessee and Peyton Manning are being sued from a 1996 incident in which the school allegedly failed to stop a sexual hostile environment. Of course the school denies any wrong doing even though lawsuits have already been settled in the past. This is going to get ugly.......
• Detroit Lions after another dismal poor season raise tickets again screwing over faithful fans for what?
• Bills McCoy involved in alleged scuffle in Philly and 3 off duty cops are hurt.. Guess He is still mad at the City of Brotherly Love...
• Louisville Cardinals self imposed 1 yr ban on postseason to its basketball team for paid sex with escorts! Really? No Way!! Mighty swell of them!! NCAA , time to flex some muscle and give them a 3 yr ban and eliminate some scholarships and suspend Pitino for a season.
• NBA decides to sell ad space on the players jerseys, must need to make the Owners more money...
• NBA rules the intentionally hack and whack will continue in the league slowing down the game and making the games longer and more boring but able to sell more ad time... 
• Mets Pitcher Mejia is suspended for the 3rd time in a year for PED's. He must not believe in the 3 strikes and you are out rule in MLB......
• NFL needs to step up along with NFLPA and deal with these players instead of pushing problem players issues under the rug!!!
• Johnny Manziel accuses Browns of playing him when he had a concussion but nothing about him owning up to his off the field actions and allegedly hitting his girlfriend over and over.
• Chargers owner Spanos, giving false hope to the Chargers Nation in keeping the Chargers in SD for another year to get all the money he can out of them before He bolts to LA?
• Southern Mississippi hit with serious violations from the NCAA for academic fraud, lying and obstruction by the University?
• Ole Miss charged with 30 violations by the NCAA  in 3 athletic sports, seems colleges will do anything to get an advantage nowadays.
• Raiders Owner trying to screw over all of California but looking at Las Vegas as their next home, is it really smart to screw over the hand of the NFL and all those Raider Nation fans?
• Dennis Wideman of the Calgary Flames cross checks a linesman during an NHL hockey game and is suspended indefinitely, he must not of thought anyone would notice him doing this? He is appealing his suspension which to many was thought to be too light of a suspension.
• Cleveland Cavaliers thinking NBA fans are naive and stupid in saying that when they fired HC Blatt last week, King Lebron James had no knowledge that they were doing this? Really? Blatt was 30-11 this year!
• MLB Owners are spending money on Free Agents like it is monopoly money and then raise prices to their fans and cry poor mouth during the season.
• Clippers Blake Griffin decks Assistant equipment manager for teasing and injures himself? Team should dock his pay,  He only gets 4 games for this, come on NBA Man Up!!!
• Wolverines HC Harbaugh back to his old ways of promising recruits everything to get them to commit at Michigan just as He did at SDSU and Stanford, then see some recruits decommit when they realized he lied to them and their families?

Topics

•  Pope Francis calling Donald Trump a non Christian and Donald Trump trading barbs with the Pope? This is what we have come too, Politics and Religion going after one another?
• The Super Bowl MVP (Von Miller) wasn't allowed to say the line everyone was waiting for, (I am going to Disney World) for CBS chose another sponsor who paid more for the space!!!
• Michigan Legislature wants to pass a bill that would take 8 years to fix the DPS and also circumvent the the Teachers Union allowing no Union say so going forward! They are crazy!!!
• State of Michigan and Gov. Snyder put Detroit Public School issues at the hands of the State lawmakers who couldn't agree how to fix the roads and we think they can help fix the Detroit public Schools?
• Detroit Public Schools allegedly block health inspectors from entering deplorable conditions in the school but want to force teachers and students to be in them all day long! Why!!!  Why!!!  Why!!!
• Government arrests a Man for a $1500 outstanding student loan! Are You kidding me? why not go after the ones who screwed everyone on Wall Street and those who keep moving their Corporation HQ outside of the USA to avoid paying taxes?
• Gov. Snyder promises transparency and accountability but refuses to release emails and documentation in regards to the Flint Water Crisis... 
• Communication is a joke between the Mayor of Flint, the State of Michigan and the EPA as reported by Fox 2 Detroit's Charlie LeDuff! 
• Who and why does there seem to be a cover up as to the relationship between the Flint Water Crisis and the high numbers of Legionaries Disease and those who died from this disease? Communication shows the City, the State and Washington and area Hospitals were all aware of this!!!
• China builds a missile base on an island in the South Pacific that isn't really theirs and puts surface to air missiles breaking a treaty with the USA!!!
• Federal Government rejects Michigan's plea for help with WIC Resources to help Children with potential high levels in their bodies due to bad water in Flint, Michigan. Doesn't sound like they want to address how the EPA also failed the City of Flint and their residents as well!!
• Oil prices tumble to around $28 a barrel but gas prices jumped 30 cents for no apparent reason?
• The City of Cleveland sent a $500 ambulance bill to the family of Tamir Rice who was shot and killed by the Cleveland Police....
• GOP Presidential candidates all going after each other thinking it is going to make Voters vote for them?
• What was the State of Michigan thinking when they knew how bad the lead level was in the City of Flint's drinking water and waited months to help out, yet sent in bottled water to State employees working in Flint months before?
• Presidential candidates for both the GOP and the Dems continuing to lie to the People, shift blame, not open up about their agendas and platforms and ask Voters to trust them and not the others?
• Social Media has allowed People to think they are Political advisers and know it all's whose Candidate is the one to vote for because they go with party lines and not what the Candidate is really about or can offer as POTUS!!!!
• Presidential candidates using the Flint Water Crisis to further their own political agendas instead of going to Flint and actually being part of the solution?
• Ex Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kirkpatrick calling out Governor Snyder? Really, the Pot is calling the Kettle black?
• State of Michigan and the Emergency Manager assigned to the Detroit Public Schools continuing to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the deplorable conditions in the schools, low balling the pay and benefits to the teachers compared to other big cities and districts,  lack of school text books and learning tools year in and year out and removing security to ensure schools and the surrounding areas are safe for the students in and out of the schools? What are they thinking????????
• Hillary Clinton continuing to think the American People are stupid in regards to the email fiasco that continues to haunt her and the new damaging response from the Postmaster General in regards to a possible indictment about what  she actually used her personal email for?
• Those who think that Sarah Palins endorsement of Donald Trump for President will hurt him and not help him in the Polls? These people are in denial!!
• That all these Presidential candidate debates are not scripted for the most part and that the people enjoy seeing all the lies and attacks on each other? Here is a news flash for the Dems and GOP, the People are tired of all this crap!
• Groups and others continue to complain about the smallest and most insignificant things to companies and businesses forcing them to change or face the wrath of social media.. In doing so, it usually drives the price of the products up.. We are becoming too soft and thin skinned as a Society........