Hook: The Problem With That Beaver Stadium Allstate Commercial

My very kind and generous wife likes to tell me that I have high moral standards. That I’m not one to “play the game.” Her interpretation of that phrase being I won’t follow expected conventions or unwritten customs simply in order to succeed. Which may be one of the reasons I don’t get along well in large organizations. Managing unwanted relationships, being phonily diplomatic, purposely avoiding conflict, adhering to misguided corporate cultures, and strategically using the unwritten incentives and rules of an environment to achieve my own goals are not my cup of tea, as it were. However, as much as I appreciate this praise from my wife, I am far from the moral high ground on everything. For example, from a different set of circumstances back in my early days at Penn State, I wasn’t above wanting better student seats at Penn State football games. And might not have held the moral high ground to get them. In the late 1970s student seats at Penn State football games were segr