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Monday, January 31, 2005
So, it has been a while, but I'm happy to report that my last blog was successful in assisting Ryne Sandberg to be voted into the MLB Hall of Fame. This month will be much better as I hope to post some amusing anecdotes, random observations and, towards the end of the month, the always popular Oscar blogs filled with predictions and Possum's top movies of the year. I've already asked Laura Linney if I can be her date to the ceremony, but have yet to hear back (you think I'm kidding).
But I'm not going to start into the movie stuff just yet. There is an even bigger event just around the corner that I would like to speak on briefly. We are less than a week away from the Democracy Bowl (owed to Gregg Easterbrook).
I first developed the theory that GWB was using the Super Bowl to promote Americanism in 2002, the first Super Bowl after 9/11. New England lost all four of it's preseason games, then proceeded to lose their first two regular season games. One NFL head coach called the team a mess. Their quarterback got hurt and they were left with a sixth round draft pick under center. Then came September 11, everyone rallied around the American flag and the New England Patriots rallied to only three more losses, a ten game winning streak and a Super Bowl appearance against the highly favored St. Louis Rams and the NFL MVP, Kurt Warner. No one gave the Patriots a chance, yet Kurt Warner inexplicably fell apart (or threw the game as I am wont to believe!!!) and the Patriots were the Super Bowl champs in the new year of new found patriotism.
No surprise that the Patriots would go on to win another Super Bowl two years later as GWB conducted his successful re-election campaign based on patriotism and John Kerry's lack of it. Having finally won the popular vote, W has tossed around the phrase "political capital." He has taken his election as a mandate from the people and thus he has orchestrated the perfect Democracy Bowl. Boston vs. Philadelphia. Freedom Trail vs. Liberty Bell. Patriots vs. Eagles. Let's just hope they don't ask John Ashcroft to sing the National Anthem.
As all of America's attention turns to Jacksonville, FL on Sunday, everybody waive your flags, it's the Fourth of July....in February.
But I'm not going to start into the movie stuff just yet. There is an even bigger event just around the corner that I would like to speak on briefly. We are less than a week away from the Democracy Bowl (owed to Gregg Easterbrook).
I first developed the theory that GWB was using the Super Bowl to promote Americanism in 2002, the first Super Bowl after 9/11. New England lost all four of it's preseason games, then proceeded to lose their first two regular season games. One NFL head coach called the team a mess. Their quarterback got hurt and they were left with a sixth round draft pick under center. Then came September 11, everyone rallied around the American flag and the New England Patriots rallied to only three more losses, a ten game winning streak and a Super Bowl appearance against the highly favored St. Louis Rams and the NFL MVP, Kurt Warner. No one gave the Patriots a chance, yet Kurt Warner inexplicably fell apart (or threw the game as I am wont to believe!!!) and the Patriots were the Super Bowl champs in the new year of new found patriotism.
No surprise that the Patriots would go on to win another Super Bowl two years later as GWB conducted his successful re-election campaign based on patriotism and John Kerry's lack of it. Having finally won the popular vote, W has tossed around the phrase "political capital." He has taken his election as a mandate from the people and thus he has orchestrated the perfect Democracy Bowl. Boston vs. Philadelphia. Freedom Trail vs. Liberty Bell. Patriots vs. Eagles. Let's just hope they don't ask John Ashcroft to sing the National Anthem.
As all of America's attention turns to Jacksonville, FL on Sunday, everybody waive your flags, it's the Fourth of July....in February.
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