Time for serious discussion, folks.Background:
Lehman Brothers CEO Richard S. Fuld has been grilled by Congress - and mad people with pink sheets of paper - the past couple days. He's allegedly accepted $480 million (he says under $250M) in bonus money as his financial firm spiraled toward bankruptcy (he was also lobbying for a government bailout as he collected his millions.)
Congress, and most Americans, have a huge problem with that seeing as taxpayers are now footing the bill. Fuld was taken to task by both Congress and a former employee who punched him in the face at the gym.
So here's the discussion:
Is Fuld being jammed up (under most circumstances, this photo would be at least Code 3)? Or is he just feeling the wrath of karma and greed?
Under optimum conditions, a Jam Up is delivered by somebody who is in a jovial mood - their day just got better because they jammed somebody up (refer to the Gold Standard). But, when the potential Jam Up is fueled by anger, I fail to recognize it as such.
There's a difference between a Jam Up and somebody getting their Come up'ins. This photo is not a Jam Up.
Discuss. (NOTE: The blog now allows anomymous bloggers. Feel free to contribute in that fashion.)
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-This is Edog - it made me click as anonymous on this one.
I agree with you Commish. Not a jam up here as a jam up picture should include somebody that's pleased about something. Nobody is happy here - just pissed off people yelling at a guy. There are some exceptions to this rule - an example that comes to mind would be when Terrell Owens was on the 9ers and went on a tirade on the bench, screaming and pointing and going nuts in the face of off. coordinator Greg Knapp, in front of TV Cameras, fans and the entire team and Knapp just sat there with a blank expression and took it. Looking helpless. To me that would qualify as a jam up even though nobody (Owens was no enjoying himself - he was angry) was pleased.
But Owens probably WAS enjoying himself, in that he knew his tirade was getting a lot of attention. He may have acted angry but deep inside he was dancing a jig.
I don't know, I'm on the fence about the T.O./Knapp thing. I'd have to re-watch it again.
Now, T.O. has done his fair share of jamming people up - like when he just decided he wasn't traded to the Ravens, hittin' up the Star on the Cowboy's field, and wearing a fur coat on the sideline and working out in his front yard during his dispute with the Eagles.
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