His story is a good one. He was a bag boy at the supermarket, sorting through the hard stuff and the soft stuff, supporting his family in Iowa. The Arena Football League started up and he got shot with the local team. Apparently through the power of Jesus he was able to "lift" his team to a championship and at the same time he caught the tear clouded eye of Dick Vermeil, then coach of the soft as a cloud St. Louis Rams. He then got a job in the NFL and took over the starting position to once again "lift" the absolutely softest championship team that the NFL has ever seen to a victory in the Super Bowl.
The '85 Bears would have left this team bleeding and crying on the floor in the corner of the bathroom, The '76 Raiders would have had these guys swishing up and down the tier selling the asses for honeybuns, The '00 Ravens would have murdered these guys at a bar in Atlanta(Oops!? was that my outside voice). But anyway where was I...
...Listen, I'm actually rooting for this guy tomorrow. Let me tell you why. First and foremost, as a Raider fan, I Fucking Hate The Steelers. I respect them. They are the greatest organization in professional football hands down. But I hate them more and for longer then any other team out there. The pain of '70's and fucking "immaculate reception" does not go away, ever. But really more then "the longest hatred", is the fact that after 10 years of Kurt Warner constantly pumping God into our ears I have turned a 180 and I have to respect his consistency, in the end the guy is genuine. And I have to respect that. Be real. What else can you ask for? I also appreciate the guy letting us know where he stands and what and who he is. So today, I find myself cheering for the living embodiment of the most popular black man ever. No not Barack, not Michael Jordan, not the strangely oppressively name of Martin Luther King(look up his name sake Martin Luther), but good ole' Jesus Christ born in manger after his Momma was violated by a ghost...actually sounds real enough for me. Fuck it. Go Cardinals!
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Man, you're completely right about being genuine. If there's anything I want people to be, it's that. Politicians, athletes, TV personalities, Actors, and everybody else society upholds as special- they're not role models for anybody. They're all tainted by money and fame.
So, when there's somebody out there who actually stands up for shit he believes in, it makes me feel that much better.
Its nice to hear some words of reason. 'The Greatest Show on Turf' was nothing. Granted they won but they were pussies! The NFL was full of weaklings or something in those years nobody just came out and just smashed those guys in the fucking face and made them crumble to the turf. Well actually Tampa Bay did and they had they're number if the refs and the NFL would have intervened with a bogus non catch call things would have been very different. As for Warner i cant stand him or his freaky wife but hey he stands for what he says, he walks the walk. to bad more people just didn't stick to there shit and be honest with themselves.
"The '76 Raiders would have had these guys swishing up and down the tier selling the asses for honeybuns..."
F'n classic. When is the Scott Kelley Sports Talk Show starting? I don't get enough of that from KMBT.
Caught this one a few days late, but I felt the same way. I used to loathe Warner back in his Ram days, but he has been consitant. Too bad the officals were blind (or turned a blind eye?) much like they helped and the Rams in 99.
I truly appreciate and cherish your shared view of the Stealers (mispelling intentional). The hate burns deep in here in Cleveland as we wallow through immense and never ending sorrow. I have come to embrace the pain, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
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