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The Filmsnobs Endorse the Carolina Panthers for Super Bowl XXXVIII
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| The Filmsnobs Endorse the Carolina Panthers for Super Bowl XXXVIII |
| 01.21.04 (10:43 pm) [edit] |
I used to like Tom Brady, and not just for that remarkable Super Bowl upset of the NFL's most evil team, the St. Louis Rams. Last year, the Patriots didn't make the playoffs. Tom Brady struggled--though a Super Bowl MVP, he was still a largely unproven starting quarterback. After this season's shutout loss to the man whose job he took, a 31-0 drubbing at the hands of Drew Bledsoe and the Buffalo Bills, Brady could have let self-doubt swallow his NFL career. But he didn't. He's not the best or most dynamic quarterback in the league, but he makes plays and wins games. Brady's got guts.
I haven't turned on Tom Brady because he's apparently a Republican. I've turned on Tom Brady because he whored himself to the Bush Administration. They found the whitest, most non-threatening player in the Super Bowl for that one shot when the President boldly called for pro sports team owners to take care of the steroid problem. The statement itself seemed really out of place in the State of the Union. It's almost like they went out of their way to attach Bush to some youthful white-bread nice-young-man. The image of Tom Wonder Brady as the ideal of pro sports seemed like it had racial overtones. When someone says steriods, don't you think of Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa like I do? There's noooo way a nice young white man like Tom Brady uses steriods. Bush probably would have done the same thing with Peyton Manning, but I wonder--would President Bush have invited a 240 pound, ripped-up, big fro-ed Donovan McNabb to attach an image to? I'll bet not. But Tom Brady? He's such a nice young man.
Tom Brady should have been stumping for fellow "New England Patriot" John Kerry in New Hampshire. Hell, Kerry even embarrassed himself by stumbling through some New England Patriot allusion in his Iowa victory speech. But instead of being a hometown guy, instead of being a loyalist, Tom Brady let himself be Bush's media prop. Whatever happened to loyalty in pro sports? I guess that's just the free market at work, another one of those glories of unbridled capitalism. So welcome Tom Brady, Republican icon of the clean, pure white athlete. If Bush really wanted to reach out to the black community, he should have invited McNabb. But the Eagles lost, and I'm not talking about that.
But that's not the only reason the Filmsnobs are endorsing the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl XXXVIII. The Carolina Panthers are the underdog. Two of their coaches are fighting cancer. They were picked last in their division at the beginning of the year. But they persevered. The Cowboys were favored in their first playoff game. Nobody gave them a chance against the Rams. Last week, the Panthers went into the most hostile environment in the NFL and came out winners. All week they talked about being positive, about propping each other up. The Eagles were mostly testy and nervous, sniping and negative. It fell them--even their Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb got knocked out of the game. All year, everyone said that the Carolina Panthers had no quarterback, that Jack Delhomme was too boyish to get the job done. Suddenly, he seems like a winner. His positive attitude, his cool under fire saw them through--Delhomme brought the Panthers back in the fourth quarter and overtime seven times. Suddenly, Delhomme and the Panthers look like they have what it takes. We're seeing a lot of that out of Carolinians this week.
---shimes
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posted by: Dillon (reply)
post date: 01.22.04 (4:17 pm)
Go Ty Law. I figured that you were rooting for the Panthers because they have the player formerly known as "He hate me" which may be the new democratic strategy for Kerry and Company or it may be because the Patriots stand for things patriotic another democratic problem, or it may be that the Patriots have a player named Ty Law and you are tired of Republican in control of writing all the laws!
Please let the football season end
Bob
posted by: filmsnobs (reply)
post date: 01.23.04 (7:56 am)
Bob, I want you to know that I posted that blog just because I knew you would respond with something appropriately smart-ass.
Consider it Mission Accomplished!
posted by: mixedreviews (reply)
post date: 01.23.04 (11:33 am)
It's fact-esque!!
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