Ummm...
Perhaps because highlighting the
revolutionary philosophy of The Patriots Way, and celebrating the shocking and
astonishing rebirth of Malcolm Butler, not as a Disgruntled X Employee, but as a man, who, despite a spectacularly
horrific ending to his hitherto magical stay, here in Foxboro, has reemerged, not decades later, but
weeks later, as an
evangelist of the Patriots Way, is uplifting, amazing, and flat out
magical??
For Butler to speak in such terms, mere
months after the horrific and mysterious debacle that hastened his exit and cost us a Championship, has
no historical precedent.
Mad Bill is a flawed genius...But just because he's flawed doesn't mean he has a
peer.
Malcolm Butler will be beloved by anyone around here with any heart or soul...
forever.
Even so: I, for one, was prepared for never a kind word to be said by either one about the other, should we all live another thousand years...And any student of human nature acknowledges that when
Rapprochement happens, it usually happens
decades after the fact, when most'f us can barely remember what the big deal was, in the
first place.
For Butler ~ a young and intensely emotional man, on top of all the drama ~ to get in front of a mike and
laud Mad Bill, only months after all that, and while we're all still acclimating ourselves to that debacle...is essentially unprecedented...in
anything.
For Butler to do that...takes astonishing,
historical Character.
He just pushed the
envelope of the human Spirit.
So, yeah: I felt that that
warranted a thread.