Top three comments in Johnsonville, immediately after witnessing what Wayne Laravee referred to as “The Travesty”:
1. “Russell Wilson: First quarterback in NFL history to win by throwing an interception.”
2. This is how Obama is going to win in November.
3. I thought Giants fans [i.e. JOB] were out of control!
Then to add insult to injury, because points scored by a team in a game are part of the play off calculus at the other end of the season, as the AP reported it, the Packers had to eat their anger and show the stuff of true sportsmen by having to endure a final humiliation:
ADDED: The NFL came out definitively in favor of the rep refs (i.e. Footlocker employees and Lingerie football rejects):
You really think that’s how Obama is going to win in November? I think he’s going to win because Romney’s programming has a glitch. I’m not saying I’m excited about it, mind you.
Funny, though.
I didn’t say “I” said these things – only that they were said. (I was only listening on the radio; apparently the TV audience on the other side of the compound were throwing furniture…
And I tend to agree regarding Mittens – although I’d also add that America has a programming glitch as well. That too will play into the mix.
“A people concerned for their safety will soon lose their libery.” Publius (Fed. Paps.) said that.
“You let me be in your dream, I’ll let you be in mine.”
I said that.
Though for all that, I’m with Dick Morris on this one – either Obama squeaks by or Mittens by a landslide. There will be no in-between…
And there will be no extra point.
JOB
America has a programming glitch as well.
Exhibit A: http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/258491-madonna-strips-for-obama-offers-profanity-laced-endorsement
JOB
I thought she was English.
At which point Tom Arnold in a ten-gallon hat offers sincere yet bemused condolences that someone could possibly suffer from such a condition…
JOB
Filed Under Dylanesque Muzak Blitz
Tie goes to the runner?
Are you askin’ or tellin’ – because it’s clear from the vid that Jennings had position and possession until the moment he hit the turf… I think even honest Seahawks fans are waking up this morning, hangover notwithstanding, and admitting the reality like blinding noon light kniving sere through the bedroom window blinds…
JOB
But there’s no touchdown until the man hits the turf, right? Remember, JOB, the Seattle-types were here at the Korrektiv before we were… I’m just trying to keep everything copacetic.
Are we watching the same vid?
JOB
Back…and to the left.
Whoops, just saw your update…
Friendship > NFL
That’s the first rule in my book.
JOB
How about a league called the NRL, National Ref League.
I think it will have to come down to making refs full time apparatus of the league.
JOB
That’s a lie, JOB. Otherwise, you wouldn’t bring up Bills-Giants as often as you do.
I’ve given up on that – I recently saw it for the 100th time (NFL films, Sabol, RIP, etc.) and I think that’s enough.
JOB
We got some pretty crap calls earlier in the game. For the record.
Don’t doubt it atall. In cases like this, injustice is also apparently blind…
But I guarantee you talk to any Packer fan (no dog in this particular hunt myself, mind you) and he’d be happy to trade the bad calls against the Seahawks in the game for the bad calls against the Packers…
JOB
(Go Giants!)
And then there was the 2005 Superbowl.
Just sayin’ is all.
This is off the subject, but has anyone reading this blog seen the movie You Belong to Me?
Disregard.
Actually, it was called Never Let Me Go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(2010_film)
I haven’t seen the flick, but have listened to the novel on audiobook. Excellent novel (and beautifully read) — the saddest piece of fiction I have put myself through since being assigned Sounder in grade school. I’ve been wanting to see the movie version. It looks like it catches at least some of the book’s sense of beautiful melancholy.
Why, sir, do you ask?
Haven’t read the novel, but the author intrigues me very much after seeing the movie.
You won’t be disappointed and I look forward to your comments.
Thanks Angelico.
I cannot recommend this film enough. Not for kids.
For better or worse, this is the first Korrektiv post that has inspired a post of my own…. http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2012/09/if-garrison-keillor-authored-apocalypse.html
I would have called it “If Matthew Lickona Authored the Apocalypse”, but oh right, I think that’s Surfing with Mel.
Would Pastor Inqvist have drunk in public? I recall an episode where Father visits him while the pastor has a cold and Father brings a bottle of brandy with him and the Pastor is so very grateful because he couldn’t have bought the booze himself, since people would talk.
Otherwise, lovely. “It was never a game,” is so fabulous it hurts.
He was rattled, so he nursed the beer. The apocalypse bends your concerns for public perception.
and thanks.
Superb pastiche that stands on its own.
Keillor should just turn over Prairie Home Companion to IC and M-Lick, and Writer’s Almanac to J-Pot, and enjoy his declining years in peace and quiet, without ever again trying to sing on the radio.
Ha!
I love Keillor and will mourn when he retires next year. I’ve seen the show live many times–he’s amazing in person and irreplacable. But thanks.
Although Father Wilmer would get more airtime this way….
But yes, J-Pot should do Writer’s Almanac for sure.
http://youtu.be/w4rP_KZnvaA
Hee!
This post WAS NOT intercepted, despite what the officials say…
JOB