It's now a week since the Super Bowl Sham. Like every previous morning, I woke up today with visions of the match still buzzing around my head.
Today's Pro Bowl, the NFL all-star match in Hawaii, officially ends the 2005 NFL season. Seven Seahawks played in the match, which I think was a team record. Matt Hasselbeck, Seattle's QB, led the go-ahead drive in the last quarter - as he would've in the Super Bowl, if allowed by the referees.
No articles today, but I want to share the thoughts of a special Seahawks fan with you. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seahawks Forum is a spiritual home for many of us, and our shamanic elder is BD. He can be crass and grumpy, every inch the ex-cop, but he's the most grounded and sincere of all of us.
That's why this affects me so much:
"I just don't think I can be a fan of the NFL any longer. It's just such a joke. It's not about football, it's about money. Now, Sunday's debacle wasn't the first time that light bulb has gone on over my head, but I think it was, for me, a light I can't pretend is off any longer. It's on and it's blinding and the gigantic cockroach that is the NFL with it's bling bling nose piercing and cheesy gold tooth plastered smile, greedily counting it's soiled dollars in the corner, has no place to hide. I don't think it even thinks about hiding. I think in its arrogance it believes it can do whatever it wants and we'll just keep on loving it no matter what, accepting it with all of its puss pocketed flaws."
Hope you don't mind me extracting this paragraph, BD.
There's plenty more after the link, every word of which is worth reading. For me, BD defines the reason for fighting, why we shouldn't just get philosophical and 'get over it'. We've see the abyss of corruption ... we've been humiliated by the impossibly rich ... we've had the light bulb go on, and stay on.
Tomorrow: trolls.
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