Colvin and Hobbs... never noticed that...
Okay anyway: the whole class thing is just an annoyance at this point. It's become another commodity, and one that we pretty much started, to boot.
Not that the Pats ever held themselves out as "classy," but all through the earlier part of this decade, the media were falling all over themselves about how classy we were.
Then they wised up and realized we're "smart," which is probably more to the point.
But what's this gaping chasm of intellect, beyond film breakdown and Xs and Os? It's realizing that there's a game played on a field with a ball, and you prepare for it, and that's it. The team just stays aloof from the morality play. This season that's helped more than ever before.
So, you guys argue whether Lady Tom is classy enough, I don't care. Now, were I arranging a poetry reading for a garden party, the fact that he's well dressed, well spoken, and apparently a gentle spirit off the field would fit the bill quite well.
I feel pretty much the same about coach's wardrobes, while we're on the subject. I know this Browns fan who adopted the Colts on the basis of hating Bill Belichick... "He's a slob, he's a cheat, do you even see what he wears? He's arrogant, and what's with the sleeves cut off? I wouldn't be caught dead in that...God I hate Belichick." Etc.
Seems like 2/3 of everthing this fan said was about wardrobe.
So this fan adopted the Colts, told me how classy Dungy is, and pretty much just repeated the same song while he was colluding with the Titans to keep the Browns at home.
Excuse me? Does anybody follow football anymore, or just the soap opera bullsh**?
Class is great. Poise is great. Grace under pressure is great. But the actual show is the goddam game. I don't want to hear about how someone should win because of the amount of fun he has, how classy he is, or his thoroughly religious upbringing and lifestyle.
PFnV
