For the uninitiated, this weekend is the best weekend of sports in the entire year. We've weeded out the crap from the NFL playoffs and we're left with the (supposedly) 8 best teams in the league, playing virtually non-stop from Saturday at 4:30 until late in the evening on Sunday. If you ain't a football fan, you'd better have a craft fair or a Bingo hall to run to because it's going to get ugly in front of the TV.The popular opinion says that the Jacksonville squad will knock off the mighty undefeated Patriots on Saturday night or at the very least, give them a run for their money. This unpopular opinion isn't so sure. Methinks that people generally like to root against perfection in all its forms - people, sports teams, politics - and if they can find an angle they'll use it.
It's the reason that people generally don't like the popular crowd or the beautiful people and the reason we like seeing women like Britney Spears or (oops) Jessica Simpson stumble in life. We like to feel as though we're all the same, but we're not really. Some people are just winners in life, and if the Patriots somehow lose on Saturday night it doesn't change that fact.
It's the reason that people generally don't like the popular crowd or the beautiful people and the reason we like seeing women like Britney Spears or (oops) Jessica Simpson stumble in life. We like to feel as though we're all the same, but we're not really. Some people are just winners in life, and if the Patriots somehow lose on Saturday night it doesn't change that fact.
Human nature is a funny thing - at least I hope it is. It encourages us to wish ill on others. The Germans call it Schadenfreude - pleasure taken from the misfortune of others. Some will enjoy watching Tom Brady and Bill Belichick mope off the field after seeing their near-perfect season collapse - on their home field, no less.
It's the reason we hate the Yankees, the Braves and Jeff Gordon. There's an emotional attachment to second place and a sentimental attachment to the underdog. But, they're second place underdogs for a reason.
They lose a lot.
Players win and winners play.
Have a lucky day.
- Morphine "Have a Lucky Day"
4 comments:
i don't get that people blame jessica simpson for that football player [can't remember his name...tony somethin or another?] having an off game.
i didn't realize that the playoffs were starting or started. jamie's taking tomorrow off [sunday] because his giants are playin.
the reasons men will call in sick crack me up.
KimmyK. Repeat after me>>>>>>>TONY ROMO TONY ROMO TONY ROMO say it like a mantra. He is the current savior of the Dallas Cowboys.
Anyway, he is a good guy that sat on the bench for 3 years waiting for this chance.
Go Cowboys!
TONY ROMO TONY ROMO TONY ROMO.
Got it.
Ok so it will take a bigger saviour than Tony Romo to resurrect this Cowboy team.
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