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Brady Quinn was upstaged by Jay Culter in his first career start - Peter King - SI.com
Last night may be remembered as The Drive- Part Deux. It may also go into the books as still another of the incredible string of improbable ways Cleveland teams find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. There is just something about that word- Cleveland- that implies a city in a retrograde orbit about the Sun. A place where the eerily weird is treated as normal in sports (like a 93 yard 4th quarter touchdown pass after the NFL network shows a vignette of Elway's drive on TV.) Things like that just don't happen in average cities such as Buffalo or Pittsburgh.
I try to convince myself that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Californian. After all, I live in an affluent Orange County coastal community and I went to college in Southern California. But I will always have Cleveland, Ohio on my birth certificate and a ton of relatives in and around northeast Ohio. Moreover, I feel my Ohio connection each time these otherwordly sports disasters befall a Cleveland team. And it's not just the losses, but the dramatic way the Browns, Indians and the Cavaliers manage to lose that have taught me the following lesson: just when the Sun begins to shine and the birds tweet I can expect all manner of improbable hell to break loose. It comes with the word Cleveland.
Last night Brady Quinn came out of the tunnel with smoke billowing and the crowd cheering like Zeus atop Mt. Olympus. O.K. the guy's not the 6' 4" Charlie Weiss advertised (more like 6' 2") and his throwing arm isn't in Jay Cutler's league, but damn-it he made some good throws to K2 in the end zone and deserved to win. The only thing Quinn hadn't counted on was the word "Cleveland" emblazoned on his jersey.
I know there are a lot of Brady Quinn fans here (for various reasons) so I placed this Brady Quinn thread here in the Et Cetera forum as I am more into the football aspect. Note: the gays are welcome to comment upon the homoerotic Brady Quinn as well. :smile:
Last night may be remembered as The Drive- Part Deux. It may also go into the books as still another of the incredible string of improbable ways Cleveland teams find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. There is just something about that word- Cleveland- that implies a city in a retrograde orbit about the Sun. A place where the eerily weird is treated as normal in sports (like a 93 yard 4th quarter touchdown pass after the NFL network shows a vignette of Elway's drive on TV.) Things like that just don't happen in average cities such as Buffalo or Pittsburgh.
I try to convince myself that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Californian. After all, I live in an affluent Orange County coastal community and I went to college in Southern California. But I will always have Cleveland, Ohio on my birth certificate and a ton of relatives in and around northeast Ohio. Moreover, I feel my Ohio connection each time these otherwordly sports disasters befall a Cleveland team. And it's not just the losses, but the dramatic way the Browns, Indians and the Cavaliers manage to lose that have taught me the following lesson: just when the Sun begins to shine and the birds tweet I can expect all manner of improbable hell to break loose. It comes with the word Cleveland.
Last night Brady Quinn came out of the tunnel with smoke billowing and the crowd cheering like Zeus atop Mt. Olympus. O.K. the guy's not the 6' 4" Charlie Weiss advertised (more like 6' 2") and his throwing arm isn't in Jay Cutler's league, but damn-it he made some good throws to K2 in the end zone and deserved to win. The only thing Quinn hadn't counted on was the word "Cleveland" emblazoned on his jersey.
I know there are a lot of Brady Quinn fans here (for various reasons) so I placed this Brady Quinn thread here in the Et Cetera forum as I am more into the football aspect. Note: the gays are welcome to comment upon the homoerotic Brady Quinn as well. :smile: