Sunday, September 29, 2002
Dale: Somewhere, right now, Tim LaHaye's so excited only dogs can hear him.
I mean, it has to be a sign of the Apocalypse, right? There's no way this could happen without it being a portent of the End. Un-believable.
Believe it or not, The Matrix explains Lion fandom. As the article indicates, it's been forever since the Lions have won a championship (45 years now--longer than the wandering of the Hebrews, thank you). It's been about that long since they've had a quarterback worth mentioning. We've been waiting so long for The One--the promised quarterback, the pigskin Joshua who will lead the Lion Nation to the Super Bowl--that we don't believe it will happen, even as we fervently wish otherwise. Consequently, the skepticism of the Nebuchadnezzar's crew towards Neo makes a lot of sense to a Lions fan. We're an army of Cyphers, saying "there's no way he can be The One."
We've been fed pretender after pretender, occasionally good, more often competent but flawed, even more often mediocre, and not infrequently godawful. Here's some of the starters I can remember off the top of my head during my purgatorial fandom: Greg Landry, Gary Danielson, Jeff Komlo (yeesh), Eric Hipple, Chuck Long, Rusty Hilger, Todd Hons (OK, the replacement QB, but I still remember him), Bob Gagliano, Rodney Peete, Erik Kramer, Andre Ware (make the hurting stop), Scott Mitchell (aieeee!), Charlie Batch (I always liked him, which puts me in the minority), Stoney Case, Ty Detmer, Mike McMahon and now, Joey Harrington. What do all of these gentlemen have in common? None of them are in Canton. Barring Kurt Warner-like transformations, none of the youngest three (Batch, McMahon, Harrington) will be. Except there's something about the last guy...
Is Harrington The One? It's only one victory, I know, but he's showing signs that he just might be: confidence, guts, smarts and a big league arm. Nothing seems to shake the former Oregon Duck. Maybe Morpheus is right about this guy...
Remember, Joey: "There is no spoon."
I mean, it has to be a sign of the Apocalypse, right? There's no way this could happen without it being a portent of the End. Un-believable.
Believe it or not, The Matrix explains Lion fandom. As the article indicates, it's been forever since the Lions have won a championship (45 years now--longer than the wandering of the Hebrews, thank you). It's been about that long since they've had a quarterback worth mentioning. We've been waiting so long for The One--the promised quarterback, the pigskin Joshua who will lead the Lion Nation to the Super Bowl--that we don't believe it will happen, even as we fervently wish otherwise. Consequently, the skepticism of the Nebuchadnezzar's crew towards Neo makes a lot of sense to a Lions fan. We're an army of Cyphers, saying "there's no way he can be The One."
We've been fed pretender after pretender, occasionally good, more often competent but flawed, even more often mediocre, and not infrequently godawful. Here's some of the starters I can remember off the top of my head during my purgatorial fandom: Greg Landry, Gary Danielson, Jeff Komlo (yeesh), Eric Hipple, Chuck Long, Rusty Hilger, Todd Hons (OK, the replacement QB, but I still remember him), Bob Gagliano, Rodney Peete, Erik Kramer, Andre Ware (make the hurting stop), Scott Mitchell (aieeee!), Charlie Batch (I always liked him, which puts me in the minority), Stoney Case, Ty Detmer, Mike McMahon and now, Joey Harrington. What do all of these gentlemen have in common? None of them are in Canton. Barring Kurt Warner-like transformations, none of the youngest three (Batch, McMahon, Harrington) will be. Except there's something about the last guy...
Is Harrington The One? It's only one victory, I know, but he's showing signs that he just might be: confidence, guts, smarts and a big league arm. Nothing seems to shake the former Oregon Duck. Maybe Morpheus is right about this guy...
Remember, Joey: "There is no spoon."
