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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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I enjoyed what you wrote, but the image . . .
I am going to have to search for some Mike La Roche posts to help my brain relearn that “cheerleader” is a good thing.
I saw the camera cut to the owners box at the end of the game and was immediately turned off. I like Christie- but I’m amazed that he thinks this is no big deal. Put aside the fact I’m a solid Cowboy hater, Christie exhibited the worst of fan-boy behavior. He was excited to sit in the box with Jerry. How LAME! If you’re thinking about becoming POTUS, your attitude should be about how these owners better start paying you a little respect- not thanking them for making room at the cool kids table.
Ugh. Really wish Detroit had come through.
Another good reason not to vote for Christie!
FightinInPhilly: #2 “Ugh. Really wish Detroit had come through.”
When the Cowboy was all over the Detroit receiver and a pass interference call was made, I thought that Detroit was going to win.
When the flag was picked up and the pass interference call waived off, I knew which way the wind was blowing. Every so often, I seem to see an agenda which precludes the success of one of the teams. I think that is what I saw on Sunday in Dallas.
I know that the NFL will tell me that I should not believe my lying eyes, but unfortunately for them, I do.
Lest I be mistaken, I don’t live in Dallas or Detroit and I don’t have an axe to grind, other than the desire for the refs to be as fair as possible. It was a bad decision to pick up that flag and rescind the penalty.
I’ll post some cheerleader pics soon. Can’t now because I’m on my iPhone, outside smoking a cigar.
IDK, he probably wasn’t going to carry NJ or NY anyway, and the money in CT doesn’t care.
…… and Christie doesn’t give a crap.
He is what he is, and he’ll do what he’ll do. To the extent the guy has appeal, that’s it.
Precisely why he won’t be President.
His street tough image (phony as it is considering the upper class town that he was raised in) will not play outside the coasts, in the more austere and well-mannered parts of the country.
Now here’s a proper Dallas Cowboy cheerleader:
And another:
If Christie thought He’d have a chance of picking up some votes in TEXAS by hanging with Jerry, then He’s an absolute fool.
He’s a yankee. He doesn’t have a chance of winning TEXAS regardless.
Good post, De Seno. I couldn’t agree more.
COWBOYS rule. America’s Team.
Like, except for the last line. Go Seahawks!
As a Jets fan, I’m just going to sit over here and be quiet.
Passions do run high. When the Browns moved to Baltimore, I had members of my family in Ohio that wouldn’t talk to me for months afterwards. I think they blamed me personally for the move.
Since you are a Jets fan, do you need a quick tutorial on how the playoffs work in the NFL?
Richard- they have playoffs?
You can’t spell playoff with j e t s.
If I knew how to embed video – I would post this:
or a link or something……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-eavMSBnk
Another reason to vote for Scott Walker.
GO PACK GO!
And the world is right again. Thank you, Sir.
Please, I beg of you, please…make that photo go viral. It’s just too darn funny and made my day.
It used to be appealing when he was “new” to the rest of the country and saw him as someone who was refreshingly tough. Now, it’s an old schtick and it’s really annoying. He will never get beyond the governor’s office in Jersey.
A truer thought has never been written !
Even as a devoted Pats fan, I wish you good luck in rebuilding the Jets. New York is a great sports town and now that Jeter’s gone, I worry about all her franchises.
As an aside, somebody should write a post about Stuart Scott. I nominate you.
Uh oh… ;-)
My 72-year-old dad, a conservative, lifetime Giants fan born and bred in New Jersey, said, “I don’t want to hear any more about Chris Christie, he makes me more angry than liberals.”
Unfortunately for Christie, the Founding Fathers in their wisdom did in fact include a clause that disqualifies any Cowboys fans that are from New Jersey from ever occupying the White House.
By the way, I thought Christie was SO dedicated to the people of New Jersey that he just HAD to bear-hug Obama days before the 2012 election?!? What about the people of New Jersey now? I’m not sure Christie is on ‘my team’ in more than one way.
Since I’m semi-responsible for that image (It was commissioned) I offer amends: Sarah Shahi, currently kicking rear as Samantha Shaw on Person of Interest on CBS.
She is descended from Iranian royalty. Her father worked at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 when it was overrun. She grew up a proud daughter of Texas and served on the Cowboys cheer squad for two seasons.
Not even Texas’ team. Go Pack!
That picture is an instant classic!
Not so oddly enough, I have a feeling Chris Christie has already printed out a copy. It is an excellent jab!
Christie is not going to win the nomination anyway. Even if he did, it’s unlikely he’d win his home state of New Jersey. It’s not so much that he’s a Cowboys fan that hurt him. I think it’s hugging Jerry Jones who is absolutely hated, even by Cowboy fans.
By the way, I’m convinced the reversal on the interference call was correct. There was very little contact. Every pass play where the reciever and the defender are close together there is some contact, some tugging, and some hand slapping. They would have to call every pass play interference if they were going to be that strict. The ball wasn’t even catchable given it hit the defender in the back. Good call Refs!
By the way, I’m a Cowboys fan. ;)
The ball being “uncatchable” means that it was thrown 20 yards out-of-bounds or to the opposite side of the field. It doesn’t become uncatchable because the defender pushes the receiver out of the way. In a literal sense, it becomes uncatchable to the receiver because of that, but that’s not the sense in which the term is used.
I hope you’re just flaming, Manny.
By the way, I’m an Eagles fan. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
P.S. Christie was on thin ice with me before his rabid Cowboys fandom became apparent. Now that it has (and ethical issues have emerged since Jerry is apparently paying for him to fly in private jets to come to the games), I’m near antagonistic towards the man. I’ll hear him out in the primaries, but I don’t see myself voting for him.
And, this article completely nails why Christie liking the Cowboys is wrong. He didn’t grow up in Dallas (or Texas) or some place without a football team (or even a place with a perennially bad football team). He’s never lived in Dallas. He’s admitted that he became a fan in the ’70s during the Staubach era when the team was a dynasty. He’s admitted that his father was a Giants fan, and he couldn’t understand why his dad would root for a struggling team. Well, because, Chris, your dad had loyalty. He wanted his own team to succeed. He valued the local guys and the kinship that came from a common rooting interest. He didn’t just want to latch onto a winner to whom he had no real connection. In short, your dad was a real man unlike you.