A Taco In the Quarterback's Hands Is So Exciting

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Brett Favre, in his new Jets uniform, takes the snap and steps back in the pocket, holding a taco instead of a football. What would his fans think of that? Well, it is my belief that when you see a quarterback holding a taco it means that ANYTHING could happen, you have no idea how the play will turn out. When a quarterback throws a taco, the ingredients could fly about and land almost anywhere. Sour cream could splat upon the back of the guy playing center. Tomatoes could be intercepted by an opposing team's cornerback. Bits of lettuce could be seized and gnawed upon by hungry linebackers and this might slow the game down as the crowd waits for them to get their fill. Pieces of shredded cheese might fall to the ground and be recovered by a safety and ran the other way for a touchdown. Bits of ground beef, though, are heavy enough and could actually fly through the air in such a way that a wide receiver could catch one of them and run it in for SIX! That is why I think it is appropriate to place a taco in the quarterback's hands because it symbolizes the excitement one feels when you see the quarterback take the snap and step back. You never know where he is going to throw the ball or if he is going to get sacked. And perhaps he could tackled so hard that the snapping of his poor bones could be analogous to the crunching sounds you'd hear when a big heavy linebacker stomps on a taco shell with his cleats?

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Here's Hoping Obama And Brett Favre Do Not Have Parallel Narratives

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Here we see Barack Obama coupled with NFL quarterback, Brett Favre. When Brett Favre went to the New York Jets late last summer, Obama offered Favre a change in fresh underwear to resolve a locker room dispute he was engaged in with his new teammates. Now, with a fresh, sparkling pair of tightie whities on, Favre is ready to embark on his new season. I've discussed how the image of Favre wearing his brand-new pair of underwear was a important, magical portent of how the Presidential Election would turn out, that the change Favre underwent would manifest itself with Barack Obama winning the election to go along with the theme of "change." Now, looking at how Favre fared in his 2008 season with the Jets we get an omen which might not sit so well with Obama supporters. Favre started out the year with a victory over the Miami Dolphins, and the Jets were looking pretty solid. About three-fourths of the way into the season they beat the Tennesse Titans at Tennessee to hand the Titans their first loss of the year and it was discussed among the pundits how the Jets might indeed be the favorite to win the Super Bowl! But right after the big win over Tennessee, the Jets embarked on a pretty bad finish to the season, losing most of their final games.

If we go along with the belief that Brett Favre's Jets season last year is an indicator of how Obama's political career will turn out, we see a man whom people have laid alot of expectations and high hopes upon. Obama's winning the election could be seen as analogous to Favre and the Jets beating Tennessee and now, just as football analysts thought the Jets might be the Super Bowl favorite, there are some who think Obama is a sort of "Messiah." Let's hope that Obama will not end up like Favre, though. Let's hope that his "arm" does not get tired as Favre's did and that he doesn't become weakened by the cold that hits alot of the nation near play-off time. If you remember, the New York Jets, after being heralded furture NFL champs, a month later did not even make the play-offs. Does this bode badly for Obama's re-election prospects? Being an Obama fan and supporter, I'm hoping to see some other symbols develop in the 2009 NFL season which portend a change in the current narrative. I see football as a prophetic language and it is important to watch the games, not only for their entertainment value, but for their potential to tell us many things about the future of our nation and its leaders.

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Brett Favre In Tightie-Whities Predicts Obama's 2008 Election Victory

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The sight of an NFL quarterback standing proudly in a pair of brand-new tightie-whities is indeed a sight to behold. It seems to be such a quintessentially American image, a young, muscular man who is a proven leader standing in clean, fresh pure white underwear that covers his fertile, vital reproductive organs which give birth to the American dream. This observation is especially relevant in the case of Brett Favre who changed his old, nasty yellow underwears of 17 years and put on the pictured brand new pair of tightie-whities that Obama gave him just as he joined his new team, the New York Jets, in 2008. What a powerful American symbol of hope and renewal! This was surely an omen that Barack Obama was going to win the election and he did. That is why I think with the NFL, if you study the games and how the narrative develops as the "Great Story" proceeds throughout the season, you can often learn alot about life and you can also use it to predict important non-sports-related events.

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Green Mold, Yellow Cheese And Mexican Food Alchemy in Relation To Team Colors

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Brett Favre stands proudly in the yellow Green Bay Packers underwear he was given as soon as he joined the team. Seventeen years later he still wore it and didn't change it until he joined the New York Jets and a fight erupted in the locker room against the overbearing stench. Favre's underwear is yellow to represent the cheese that is made in Wisconsin. Cheese is a primary ingredient in a taco and many other types of Mexican food. Cheese can easily represent the sun and its warm rays but in the case of Favre a lesson can be learned about what happens when cheese goes bad, when it hangs around too long and starts to get green mold on it, exhibiting both colors of the Packers: green and yellow.

Favre had a wonderful career with the Packers and had a great opportunity to go back to the Super Bowl for a third time in January 2008 until he again threw a bone-headed interception to essentially end the game and allowed the New York Giants to win the NFC Championship game. This is what happens when good cheese hangs around too long and when a man doesn't change his underwear for 17 years. What we have learned is that with the mythology of Mexican food integrated with that of NFL football, the Packers represent the stale and/or rotten Mexican food ingredients, mainly yellow cheese covered in green mold, and I can hopefully explore that particular sports metaphor more in the future in connection with Obama and politics to create an artistic alchemy that be both entertaining and profound.

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The Possible Use Of Tom Brady As A Government Propaganda Tool

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Here we see New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, hanging out with his buddy, Dick Cheney. Just as strange as Barack Obama's ascendency to the Presidency was, I think you can also say the same for the way Tom Brady stepped in during the 2001 NFL season and began his now Hall of Fame career and the New England patriots dyansty. I've thought for a long time that there is something going on with the NFL, that it is rigged in some mysterious way that goes well beyond perhaps members of gambling rings paying off players to under-perform. I have a gut feeling that Tom Brady is some kind of "plant," a robot or perhaps extra-terrestrial, or at the least that he was brainwashed by Bush/Cheney and their cronies to aid the Bush administration in a post 911 subliminal propaganda campaign urging us all to be "Patriots" and support the "Patriot Act" in addition to whatever executive decisions Bush might make or whatever other tricks the government had up its sleeve to further their oil-grubbing agenda in the MidEast. Don't you find it strange that during the NFL season in which Bush is to step down, last season, Tom Brady gets injured for the remainder of the year in the first game of the season? Could it be that he was just no longer needed?

And today at a St. Patrick's Day dinner, President Obama announced that Dan Rooney would be the ambassador to Ireland. This is the same Dan Rooney who owns the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team that won the Super Bowl this past February. And what do the 2001 Tom Brady and and the 2008 Dan Rooney have in common? They both beat a team in the Super Bowl that had Kurt warner as its starting quarterback. This is part of the reason why I like to portray NFL quarterbacks in their underwear, to express a need for the government to finally tell us the "naked truth" behind how it uses NFL quarterbacks to manipulate public sentiment.

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Sage Rosenfels Now On The Long List Of Sputtering Mediocre Viking Quarterbacks

Oh boy, Minnesota Vikings fans! It's time to get excited because the Minnesota Vikings have acquired Sage Rosenfels! Yeah, right ! Like there was really ever a chance that the Vikings would get someone like Bret Favre or Donovan McNabb! The Sage Rosenfels era has begun and you can tell that everyone is soooo excited. I just keep cursing about what happened to Daunte Culpepper. He was the only thing that looked even close to a solid, long-term franchise QB for the Vikings since I've been a fan, and now we are back in the muck of having to watch our sputtering, impotent offense let all our talent on defense go to waste. It's like a reverse of how the Vikings were during their brief "Super Bowl window" era between '98-'00 when they had Culpepper, Moss, Carter and Robert Smith at running back combining for an explosive, record-breaking offense. Of course, back then it was the DEFENSE that stunk. Yeah, GET YOUR POPCORN READY!! I just can't wait to watch the glorious competition in training camp between Rosenfels and Tarvaris Jackson! Hahahaha. I'm also a big Indianapolis Colts fan and the first thing I thought of when I heard this Rosenfels news was that bone-headed play he made as the Texans' QB when he fumbled the ball last year and gave Indy a win they probably didn't deserve.

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Is Peyton Manning A Republican?

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Here Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Peyton Manning, is seen hanging out with Senator John McCain. Does this mean that Manning is a Republican and that he voted for McCain this past November? I'm not certain but it wouldn't surprise me if most, if not nearly all, white quarterbacks in the NFL voted for John McCain. I know that New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, was invited by George Bush to be present at one of his State of the Union addresses, so it makes me wonder if there is a tendency amongst white NFL quarterbacks to vote Republican. I can see how alot of the high-paid QB's in the NFL might be afraid of the Bush tax cuts for the rich that Obama intends to let expire. Alot of them also strike me as the macho types who hold conservative values and don't care a whole lot for gay people or for being nice to people they consider weaker than them. Peyton Manning went to college in Tennessee which is a red state. His home state is Louisianna which also went red so how ironic, then, that he has to wear a BLUE Colts uniform and play in Indiana which is now a blue state too!

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Brett Favre Finally Changes His Underwear!

When Brett Favre was traded from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets in the summer of 2008, a deep dark secret was revealed on the first day Favre's new Jets teammates observed him in the locker room. As soon as Favre began to undress to change into his Jets uniform for the first time, the entire locker room was filled with a sinister, unyieldingly awful stench. All the players were like, "Man, what's that smell?" The source of the stench became quite clear when they all saw the pair of yellow Packers underwear briefs had on. . . .. . . click here to read more

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Randy Moss' 24th Obama Touchdown

Here is Randy Moss, catching his 24th touchdown pass from Tom Brady in the endzone, right around November 4th, 2008, Election Day, already beating his last year's all-time NFL single-season record of 23. The Obama logo is seen nearby so it brings up the question: Is Randy Moss catching touchdowns for Obama? Does Barack Obama have some sinister plot to steal ALL of Randy Moss' touchdowns the way many say he is going to steal money from the elderly by raising capital gains tax on profits from selling their homes? Hahahaa, I don't believe all that garbage about Obama raising taxes on the elderly just as I don't necessarily believe Randy Moss is a big Obama supporter. One could argue that Moss supports Obama because he is a fellow African-American. One could also say that since Moss is a native West-Virginian and a self-described "country boy" that he might not vote for Obama, if he even votes at all. Many West Virginians showed they didn't like Obama during the landslide victory Hillary Clinton enjoyed against him during the Democratic Primaries. In the end it is none of the fans' business who Moss votes for, as long as he catches touchdowns, right?

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