Wednesday, January 21, 2009

One more, then this story is dead to me. Honest.

As Nils has pointed out in previous episodes, Rick Reilly is a touch out-of-touch. His article on Larry Fitzgerald both reiterates that notion and serves as a perfect representation of the media's looking-the-other-way love affair with the star WR.

Obama is a football freak, so he'll be watching next Sunday when the world finally gets a load of Fitzgerald's son—the anti-T.O.—a receiver who catches everything and brags about nothing, who climbs his own invisible staircase to get to footballs, who dresses and speaks impeccably and travels the world alone in the off-season, taking in museums.

[Insert your own "must stay 200 feet away" joke with respect to the "travels the world alone" compliment.]

"He looks so much like his mother," says Larry Sr. "He has her humility, her smile and her stubbornness."

[I bet T.O. looks *nothing* like his mother.]

No wonder Junior still carries his mom's driver's license in his wallet. No wonder he wears his hair in long dreads—as she did—to honor her. And now this Samson comes into the Big Bowl as one of the main pillars the Steelers have to topple.

[This story is officially dead to me. Although, the following Wikipedia passage on Samson is a bit eerie:

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On the way to ask for the woman's hand in marriage, Samson is attacked by an Asiatic Lion and simply grabs it and rips it apart, as the Spirit of God moves upon him, divinely empowering him. This so profoundly affects Samson that he just keeps it to himself as a secret.
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1 comment:

Nils Nilsson said...

I had something similar happen to me with an Asiatic lion but have kept it secret because I am scared of my own powers. I am also scared of PETA.