Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In

I feeling a bit Michael Corleone right now. Apparently, B-Dawk is now a Denver Bronco.

A little history: I grew up a Denver Bronco fan. Was it the colors? Was it the team? Well, no, it was probably John Elway. I always loved the underdog. Sure, he had that funny walk and couldn’t win the big game for shit (pre-running game), but I always rooted from him (even though he now says exceedingly stupid things about the need for short hair in football).

John Elway doing his thing

When I was in 5th grade I had a party for Super Bowl XXIV aka Bronco beatdown. I split the room in two with tape on the floor: one side for the Broncos, one for the 49ers. I was the only one on the Bronco side. Apparently my friends knew better.

Fast forward, 1996. The Jacksonville Jaguars just beat the seemingly superior Broncos in the first round of the playoffs. Problem was, I grew up in Jacksonville. All night my “friends” called me to ask if I wanted to go to the stadium with them to celebrate the win. They thought that was really funny. Well, I got the last laugh the next few years as the Broncos sent Elway out in style with Super Bowl wins.

Ever since then, I haven’t been a really big Bronco fan. I liked Jake “the Snake” Plummer and any RB that gained 1000 yards. Yet, with the firing of Mike “the Rat” Shanahan, the last holdover from the Elway era, I thought I was done with the Broncos for good. That plus fantasy football keeps me rooting more for individuals than teams.

Melissa Stark wonders if Brian Dawkins will be better than John Lynch as a Bronco.

What other reason could I have to root for them? They have this ridiculously young coach who I don’t give a shit about and a defense that I could pass for 300 yards against. And then they go and do something stupid like bring the coolest guy in the world into their organization.

While I do weep for Philly for losing such a football stud, I am curious to see if B-Dawk can single-handedly bring back the days of the Orange Crush.

Oh, and big ups to Tom Jackson.

Keep B-Dawk in Philly

Burgeoning Doc Hollywood favorite

I was watching ESPN today and heard the good news: Big Fatty Reid and Always a Bridesmaid McNabb are coming back to Philly. If you look past the silly names I just called them, I actually like the Eagles quite a bit. McNabb has been on my fantasy team the last two years and I have a great respect for him. I really do hope he gets a ring one day. That being said, some talking head on ESPN also said that the Eagles may not bring back Brian Dawkins. I don’t know the validity of this. I am unaware of his contract status or anything like that. So, this may all be a rumor, but, if not, I shout from the mountain tops: Bring back Brian Dawkins.

When I think of Dawkins, I think of this.

In the process of writing this post, I also came across this:

This NFL Films excerpt (?) shines some light on the greatness of Dawkins. You get to hear Brian Dawkins say great things like:

-”Boomshakalaka.”
-”I’m like Michael Jackson before he went crazy.”

So, I plead with the Eagles. Don’t blow this team up quite yet.

New Favorite Player

Although I have some delicious posts swimming around in my head (fathead redux, all-god NFL team, NFL capitalizing on FF by visualizing stats), for now I want to say I am in love with Brian Dawkins. Man, what a great day. It’s such a great feeling that I will admit to loving that ‘Bad Day’ song in ESPN’s Playoff Fantasy Football commercial.

Not only is he a badass, he is also representing Jacksonville, Florida a lot better than Limp Bizkit. He is on par with Shannon Wright for correctly-awesome representation.

This is the first NFL playoff weekend in a long time where all the teams I wanted to win won. Eagles, Cardinals, Steelers, Ravens. Do I want an All-Bird or an All-Penn Super Bowl? Right now I am leaning All-Bird but whatever.