You can’t handle the truth!

Apparently a controversy has been spewing across the sports world over the benching of Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb. This was two weeks ago, by the way.

I say “apparently” because I have not followed, nor do I care to follow the entire controversy that perhaps now is moot. I say “moot” because McNabb said he and Redskins coach Mike Shanahan put the issue behind them. Also, McNabb has signed a contract for $9 billion million plus change (just s**ting you) and was back on the field just in time for the Redskins to, in the words of some rural Texas high school coach, be “beat like a rented mule” last night by McNabb’s former Philadelphia Eagles (I s**t you not.)

That was fun to write. It was long too. I know. I did that on purpose porpoise.

McNabb is not really my point. No? What is pray tell?

Lying. Lying is my point. This has to do with a lie or series of lies Shanahan allegedly perpetrated regarding McNabb’s  benching.

Out of all this soap-opera-ish nightmare of epic proportions (lie) comes a truth.

The truth I detected today came from ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd. I listen to his show when I am out driving in the mornings going to and fro. He can be annoying but he is entertaining and today made one of the most profound statements I have ever heard coming out of a sports talk-type guy.

Cowherd said of Shanahan, of course he lied. Everybody lies. Your kids lie. You lie to your kids. You lie to your wife. You lie to the IRS. You lie to your neighbor. You even lie to yourself. Cowherd didn’t say all that, I just made some of it up, but that was the gist of his thought line. That wasn’t what was so profound though.

Imagine a UFO with aliens landing on Earth. Would the government lie to the public about that? Probably. Cowherd said the reasoning was that there are “too many low-hanging fruit” living among us and they would not be able to handle the truth. He cites the people who e-mail him every day with just incredibly out-there missives. We all know the people of whom he speaks. You might even be one of them. I paraphrase but that is basically what this sports talk radio guy said and I love it. I just love it.

Low-hanging fruit. You can just see a big, yellow diamond-shaped sign with representations of bananas and grapes hanging from a tree all the way to  the ground. “Beware Low-Hanging Fruit,” being the text equivalent. Perhaps some kind of space ship bearing such a sign, could be sent up in the Exosphere over each pole to warn travelers from outer space. Okay, there are probably holes in my idea — like holes in the ozone layer  — but it is the thought that counts.