My Bandwagon Hurts...

Putting behind us the high that was once again beating one of the most hated rivals in football, unfortunately we cannot bask in the glory of the victory any longer. Focus must shift to the daunting yet not insurmountable task of Big Game Sunday as it will be known until well, Sunday. Another NFC East match up against the 3 time defending NFC East Champs, the Iggles. How do we go about beating this force that has shown itself to be all powerful and mighty and superhuman, and invincible in the eyes of the all seeing, all knowing, all wrong media. Let’s get something straight and let’s do it right now, this team is not as good as the prognosticators would like you to think. An explanation? Oh, you think that I am just sitting here running my windbag again, not really knowing of what I speak? How ‘bout it... all right here goes...

These guys, the Iggles are all over the t.v. They do commercials for soup and video games, bottom line, you could say that they are one of the larger revenue producing teams in the league for both the NFL and it’s licensed material, as well as sponsors galore. Starting with “Soup Time with Donovan’s Mamma” and T.O. starring in NO B.O. commercials for Right Guard starring ex-Camp Kill Yourself stars that have graduated to doing bigger and better pooh-canos on the MTV. This team has is beyond blessed in the eyes of the media, to call them darlings would make the Patriots look like Dana Plato having a video threesome with Macaulay Culkin during his drug years, and Michael Jackson. This team is almost bulletproof. So unless the planets are aligned and there aren’t two earthquakes, a flu outbreak and a hurricane today alone, we can’t win.

Soup and sponsors don’t win games. Media types don’t like to be wrong when it comes to their little darlings. In fact they never really admit to being wrong, or take a risk and go out on a limb and stand on their own convictions. Nope. Just hang around the bandwagon, and blow a little more smoke up the skirts of the fans. Get it? No? We can use the Pats again, off to a tough start this year aren’t they? Defending World Champs you say? Three time dynasty type World Champs? Lost two coordinators during the offseason you say? They are the World Champs, they will persevere. Lost their number one linebacker to a stroke? No matter, they are the World Champs. Lost their best safety (ummm... by the way you all are still welcome for that Rodney guy) to a severe case of hamburger knee with extra cheese, no matter they are the World Champs. Lost their best D-Lineman to a sprained forehead and all of their corners to some other malady, so what? They are the World Champs. Not anymore they aren’t and you don’t win games with words and accolades, sometimes you actually need players. And there are still some in the ‘inner’ circles that think that the Colts are going to struggle with the Pats again this year.

(And let it be said that the Colts just might struggle with the Pats, but only because they are playing a junior varsity schedule and haven’t shown me much yet. How Bulger didn’t get injected with everything they had in the meds cabinet at halftime on Monday night is beyond me.)

(And let it also be said, that the biggest benefactor of the Bandwagon Love; the main engine that powers the big train, is the Colts and their 'Quarterback'. Not a big believer in them either. I'm just sayin' and all...I'll have a bit more to say about that later in the season.)

This is the roundabout way of saying that I think we are going to win this game this weekend. Convincingly.

The best argument that I have in support of my opinion here is that they are just not that good. I watch them, I see them play. I see the Iggle brand of football. Guess what? It’s not working against us. It’s not going to work. They have two guys that can beat us. Two. It’s going to be eleven on Two. They can’t win.

They can’t win because they have to throw the ball. A lot. They can’t run it. They sure as heck can’t run it against us. So they have to throw. A lot. And they will. A lot. It’s time for this secondary to show all of us why they are out there. They are going to be challenged and I expect them to handle it like professional football players and win. I can’t believe that I just typed that.

So everyone climb on to the Iggles this week, everybody, get on. We can’t beat the Iggles when we got to go to their building. We can’t beat the Iggles, they’re going to Super Bowl Extra Large this year. They make soup commercials for cryin’ out loud. They’re important. Yeah, well, here’s my middle finger, we’re going to crush them…

I hope.