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Christie Tapped to Captain the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
So that’s why he wanted to lose all that weight.
Since we have nothing better to do here in New Jersey, for instance, trying to stop Atlantic City from crumbling into the water, or hoping that Trenton does, let’s wring our collective hands over the Governor cheering for the Giants’ divisional rival while bromance hugging Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. I’m a Jets fan. If it weren’t for this distraction I’d be scouting the Pop Warner leagues to find my team a better coach than the one we just fired.
Governor Christie has really bad optics by publicly wearing Texas spurs. Why? Because Football ain’t baseball, that’s why. Politicians can only lose more votes in the football world than they can gain. Everybody knows that.
Howie Long said in his Hall of Fame enshrinement speech that baseball is America’s pastime, but football is truly America’s passion. He’s right. The emotions in football run hotter and more wild than any other sport. (I know — not as hot as soccer fans who kill each other at games on other continents, but that’s just another in a long list of reasons why America is better than the rest of the world.)
As raw as emotions can be in football, they are magnified in the NFC East. Have you ever gone on social media on a Sunday to see the vitriol between Cowboys, Giants and Eagles fans? They conjure up enough putrid hatred to be the reason North Jersey smells the way it does. I can’t print the bad stuff, but the G-rated material is that like the Liberty Bell, the Eagles have no ring, Giants fans are reminded that you can’t spell eliminated without “Eli” and the Cowboys are told that Tony Romo in Spanish is Mark Sanchez. Then there are the Washington Palefaces, a team no one cares about these days but Al Sharpton. (I’d say that team’s real name but I fear Eric Holder will indict me for a hate crime.)
The point is, the NFC East is no place for a politician with national aspirations to pick up votes. As soon as you pick up one vote in Texas, you lose three in NY, Philly and DC. It’s better to just steer clear of that.
The only excusable cheering for a politician is to root for the hometown team. That’s acceptable because it at least shows the qualities of loyalty, allegiance and by extension patriotism. You are with your guys, no matter what. Even the rivals understand that and give it a pass.
Simply not rooting for the home team is considered an inexcusable character flaw by the hometown fans, but to go and root for a hometown rival is different. That’s an offense punishable by political death. Remember in Dante’s Inferno, heresy is the sixth circle of hell, but the 9th circle, the last one where the really bad guys go, is for traitors.
I don’t care how much the Governor protests that he has been a lifelong Cowboys fan. Stupid is as stupid hugs and hugging Jerry Jones gets a flag — and I don’t mean the kind of flag that gets picked up by a referee after Dez Bryant tells him he has to do it. I mean a real, non-reviewable penalty.
In politics, you have to give up certain things. One of those things is cheering for anyone but the home team. Just ask Rudy Giuliani. The Mayor was a life-long Yankee fan, who while running for President, infamously said that he would root for the Red Sox against Colorado in the 2007 World Series.
He’s not President.
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The ball was catchable. Period. The contact, though, was modest enough that I don’t think anyone would have been shocked if there’d been no flag thrown. Once thrown though, it’s the picking it up that’s so inexplicable.
I could not possibly care less about football, but I do like the artwork. Come Republican presidential primary season we need to see billboards that have that picture on one side, and on the other side the famous Ted Cruz as street tough poster.
To see Christie behave like a juvenile fanatic over a bunch of millionaires he has no connection to says it all for me. As an Eagle fan (though not nearly as invested in their fate as Jiggles Christie is with the Cowboys) I was amazed to see him in the box at the Eagles Game rooting for Dallas. Politically moronic. And then the celebration in the box with Jerry Jones – an embarrassing display for a grown man. THIS is the guy so many GOPers are touting as Presidential material?
South Jersey is replete with Eagles fans and North Jersey is filled with Giant fans. Both these teams have long history of hating on the division rival Cowboys. If there was some basis for his affection for the Cowboys, it might make sense, but I would still advise Crispy Creame to lay low so as not to needlessly antagonize his constituents.
Being Governor of NJ and a Cowboys fan is a little like being a Republican who’s a Clinton fan.
As an Eagles fan going back to 1960 when I met Sonny Jurgenson Pete Retslaff Tommy Mac Donald Maxie Baughn in their locker room at Franklin Field as a seven-year-old, I have rarely had occasion to root for the Cowboys. However, last Sunday I was rooting desperately for the Cowboys because I can’t stand thuggish, dirty players and the Detroit Stompers have quite a few. So let’s take it back to Tuesday when the Suh suspension was reversed. Bad call. That guy has no business playing professional football until he learns basic sportsmanship. Bad calls abound and the interference call, or reversal thereof, wasn’t the only one in that game, so I see it as a wash.
Well said.
That’s not pass interference. The ball hasn’t even been thrown yet. You could call that holding, but I see stuff like that on every pass play.
Denial ain’t a river in Egypt. Is anyone in the sports world actually arguing that this wasn’t pass interference? Unbelievable, and I don’t even have a dog in this fight, I’m a Giants fan with the Niners as my backup.
Yeah, that’s defensive holding; the pass interference came later. Both result in an automatic first down. And, of course, this leaves aside Bryant’s charging the field sans helmet to protest the penalty, which is a 15 yard personal foul and automatic first down.
Franco: #33 “Being Governor of NJ and a Cowboys fan is a little like being a Republican who’s a Clinton fan.”
What if we swap the name Clinton for the name Obama?