Excusism Is A Deadly Disease in America. More Deadly Than Cancer , Covid or Nuclear War

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Listen as one of the premiere winners in all of society over the past 2 decades I've noticed a disturbing, debilitating, infectious disease in America.   I call it Excusism.   It's when the losers in society blame all their failures and shortcomings on external factors beyond their control.  

I've seen it with Barstool Sports.  The Deadspins and Big J's of the world will all cry and moan about how successful Barstool has become.  It's because we use league highlights without permission or use clickbait titles on our blogs or post pictures or pretty women or just appeal to Neanderthals blah blah blah.   It's never about us just out working our competition.  It's never about us being funnier than our competition.  It's never about me delivering newspapers at 4am while they were dreaming about unionizing to get a raise rather than trying to get better at their job to get a raise.

And unfortunately it's not just the workplace where Excusism is running rampant.  It's infiltrated the world of professional sports. I mean look at the 2 most dominant dynasties of this century.  The New England Patriots and the Houston Astros.   Both teams have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are better than their competition. The more successful each franchise became the louder the excuses from the teams they beat became.   Oh the Patriots and Astros must have been cheating!  They must have been illegally stealing signs!   They had to be deflating footballs!  How else can you explain their total dominance?  How else can Dave Portnoy have 6 rings and a mulit million dollar company?   There must be foul play.  The Yankees, Colts, Rams, Steelers and other loser franchises never looked in the mirror and said we need to get better.  They never put the blame on themselves.  They never acknowledged that they had to improve to compete.   Instead they just cried in their soup as the Patriots and Astros continued to stack championship after championship despite all the allegations, penalties and new rules designed to stop them.  It turns out cheating had nothing to do with their success.  They were just better than everybody else.   

And it's not just our pro leagues anymore.  Now this deadly disease of Excusism has leaked into the college ranks.   Hard work and success is no long celebrated.  Take for example the Michigan Wolverines.   An emerging dynasty seemingly doing everything the right way.  Building a powerhouse program on the field and in the classroom.   Beating opponents into submission with flawless physicality and execution.  Dominating their rivals in a fashion like we've never seen before.   A team and a program that should be an example to every other program in America.  If you work hard, play hard, eat your vitamins you can beat the shit out of Ohio Stste a billion years in a row too.   But instead of aspiring for greatness and raising their own levels of play once again we see Excusism rear its ugly head.  Instead of looking in the mirror and accepting that you are an inferior human who was born on 3rd base you'd rather tell yourself Michigan must be cheating.  They must be stealing signs just like the Patriots and Astros.    And around and around we go.   It is truly a disease.   As long as people use Escusim as an excuse for failure they will remain a failure.  The sooner you admit to yourself that somebody is is superior to you the sooner you can close the gap.  I hope the good folks in Columbus are reading this and taking it to heart because I want the Big Game to mean something again.  I really do.  But it starts with the losers acknowledging that they are losers and not making excuses for getting their shit stuffed in every single year.