Sometime in December, the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey interviewed Governor Chris Christie at Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton. More recently, “U.S. attorney Paul Fishman subpoenaed Christie’s re-election campaign and the legislative committee that investigated the bridge closures.”
Then, of course, Christie was seen on national television last weekend congratulating Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones on his team’s first playoff victory since 2009.
I know that a lot of people don’t care about football, and that’s fine. But among people who do care about football in New Jersey, a guy of Christie’s age who roots for the Cowboys is worse than a pariah.
We have no problem understanding his love of Bruce Springsteen, even if he doesn’t share any of The Boss’s values. Most boys from Christie’s generation who grew up in New Jersey idolized Bruce Springsteen. But, equally true, they all idolized Lawrence Taylor.
Let me just remind you of why Jersey Boys idolized LT.
Yes, I know there is a southern part of New Jersey that is flat and filled with scrub brush and follows Philadelphia media and sports. In the north, we consider this portion of our state to be East Ohio. And, in any case, Christie didn’t grow up in the South.
I also know that LT has some pretty significant character issues that became more and more clear as his career progressed and then kind of exploded after his retirement. That’s not the point.
The point is, that guy who wasn’t rooting for the New York Giants in the eighties and early nineties and who insisted on wearing a stupid Dallas Cowboys winter jacket?
That guy had no character. He just liked being a dick.
And he had no taste.
Again, just look:
No one ever played the game like that and no one ever will.
Christie showed there was something seriously wrong with him from the beginning.
I have found that when the majority of TP/GOP members open their mouths. It clearly demonstrates to all around them that something is OFF with them.
That goes for posts and comments on sites as well, by the way.
As a human being, and as a man, LT left a lot to be desired.
But as an NFL player, he was the greatest defensive player of all time!
A ‘meat-seeking missile!’
When he hit an opponent, that opponent knew who hit him!
And yeah, by rooting for “Dem Cowboys” – “Columbia’s Team” – Gov. Krispy Kreme showed what a tremendous limp dick he is, was, and evermore shall be!
Explain to me again why anyone ever voted for this fat phuck?
Because the NJ Democratic Party took a dive, twice.
I thought the one thing that united north and south Jerseyans was hatred of the Cowdroppings. After all, Eagle fans also share a division with them.
I know from previous posting, Booman, that you see Giants fans as somehow exceptional – you talked about how Jets fans accept chronic failure but Giants fans won’t. Well, that’s just silly – no team’s fans can demand constant success, as much as they’d like to think they can. Similarly, understand that fans of the other Cowpoop rivals hate them just as much as Giants fans do. In fact, Eagles fans possibly more so because unlike the Giants and the Washington Racial Slurs, the Eagles don’t have a case full of Lombardi trophies to rival those in Dallas.
I figure that Christie decided to come out of the closet as a Cowpatty fan after winning his second and last term as governor. As a Presidential candidate there is no expectation that you root for the local team. But as governor you’d better be rooting for local teams – and if you don’t, at least don’t let it be to the local teams’ most hated rival.
The other thing Christie may be doing, by the way, is trying to win the support of the rich party elders (who currently are rushing to back Jeb, just as we both thought would happen). By tightly aligning with Jerry Jones he is signaling that he is very much one of them.
There are winning organizations in sports. No franchise wins all the time, but you can point to franchises that win much more consistently than others. In baseball, this can be explained mostly (but not entirely) by budgetary disparities. But that is not the case in football or basketball.
The Knicks, for example, are a joke. The Nets are a joke.
The Giants are not a joke.
As for the Eagles, they may not have won the trophy, but they’ve consistently been a winning team for most of the last twenty years and are rightly considered one of the better NFL teams.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers do have a trophy but are rightly considered a terrible franchise.
I’ve spent time in the Tampa area, and they do not expect or demand excellence from the football team.
But, really, there are only a few franchises that I respect from an ownership point of view. Mainly these are the Giants, Steelers, Packers, and to a lesser degree the Patriots.
These are not coincidentally teams that have more than a third of the Lombardi trophies. They’re teams that have the most intense player loyalty and most dedicated and proud fan bases.
We’re Giants fans in large part because we love the owners, just as I respect the Rooneys in Pittsburgh and the fans who own the Packers.
Here’s an example of why.
Also, the old man:
The fans of every NFC East team hates every other NFC East team. They’re fortunate in having a guaranteed 6 games every season versus teams they hate.
That’s what makes Christie’s betrayal all the more unforgivable and puzzling.
Not having great confidence in the abilities of US attorneys to put together a decent case against high government officials or politicians, the above disclosure reads to me as if Fishman is still fishing and has yet to uncover why the hell the GW bridge access lanes were closed.
So Christie was actually a Cowboy fan growing up or did he just congratulate them on their playoff win? The way I see it, congratulating them on a win doesn’t make him a fan necessarily. Heck, maybe he was being sarcastic.
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Jura Giga 5
He did it just to piss off the old man.