Philly Super Bowl(ish) Champs!
Speaking of no Super Bowls...
The fuck is that thing? According to the placard, it is an old timey noseguard that very few if any players ever wore. So let me get this straight. You put in the Hall of Fame an artifact that has little to no connection to football's actual history? Basically, someone found that thing stored in some warehouse and thought it looked creepy and decided to just toss it in a display case. Hell, just give the mannaquin a knife penis while you are at it...
Help me Obi Wan Kanobi. You're my only hope.
Now as much as I enjoy football and history, the things I love even more are hubris, smugness, and trolling. And there was plenty of that abound in the "Other Leagues" room. For background, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is pretty small. Yet, in spite of their lack of space, they have an entire large room dedicated to the pro football leagues that tried to challenge the NFL and failed miserably.
And the room is not a respectful homage to these leagues, rather it smugly describes how each one tried to challenge the bohemeth that is the NFL and then crashed and burned. Like smugly describing how the players in one league almost sat out of the championship because their paychecks for the past couple months had bounced. Or describing how the commissioner of one league was a convicted felon. It goes through each league and describes how it was a terrible failure and quickly tanked. The entire room is a shrine to smugness and I think I could have spent hours in there. My favorite part: They go through all these different failed leagues yet not a single mention of the XFL. It's like tthe NFL is trying to play it off like they didn't even know that league ever existed. That is some great smug right there. U mad XFL?
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