{"id":9020,"date":"2011-09-20T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=9020"},"modified":"2011-09-20T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:10:29","slug":"my-new-favorite-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/09\/20\/my-new-favorite-football-player\/","title":{"rendered":"my new favorite football player"},"content":{"rendered":"

My middling level of interest in nfl football often slides to only wanting to hear this Sunday night radio highlight session, with the announcer making — basically purposefully bad– strained puns off of team names and player names (usually the quarterback).\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, there’s always a lot of “stories” that grab my interest — last year I was on the edge of my seat rooting for every NFL West team to lose week in and week out and doing a little jiggy after after that epic final game of the season where the league had designed the schedule to slot in a defacto division championship game and treated football fans to the sight of the Seahawks making the playoffs at 7-9.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So far this season, I’m a big fan of the commentary suggesting that sans Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts should just float the season away and go 0-16 and grab Andrew Luck\u00c2\u00a0 in the draft– which would make an interesting race indeed: one that might interest this season’s iteration of the Seahawks<\/a> — and one that the Colts have the upper hand due to not playing in the NFC West.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time such a race developed — for Peyton Manning — it only took 13 losses; we’ll see if the bar of excellence has been upped to 16 in the interceding decade and a half.<\/p>\n

But for my interest in NFL pun and cultural referencing concoctions, this one intrigues me to no end.\u00c2\u00a0 I stumbled onto this headline, and I think I’ve found my new favorite football player.<\/p>\n

Kafka, Eagles fall to Falcons, 35-31<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This one might take the football commentary of Dennis Miller to handle.\u00c2\u00a0 Kafka is the emergency third-string back-up quarterback for a qb who, pretty predictably actually, has fallen to injury — the controversial and rehabilitated Michael Vick, and came in for a spell.\u00c2\u00a0 He is, reportedly, “ready to go” for next week.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure a Lit Major can tell me what he’s doing to prepare himself.<\/p>\n

I would say that the headline writes itself, but I can’t think of anything.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope he stays long enough where something clearly and immediately recognizable as Kafka-esque<\/a> will take place on the field — something I can’t quite come up with right now (maybe an unannounced regulatory rule change in the middle of the game?) , but I’m sure it’ll be in the Highlights Reels from here to Eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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