NEW YORK, NY – Okay, so Lonnie Quinn & his cronies got it right – we got some snow. But once again, we were led to believe we were going to die by story-inventing icarnations of Ron Burgundy reading weather reports. While we think Quinn actually does work – as his rolled-up sleeves (aka Jim Cramer look) indicate, we’re not sold on most of his “sky-is-falling colleagues. Yet, here we are having survived another potential Doomsday, and with that comes the need to Fill-In for our missing Friday Fill-In! That has us mad as All Heck but simultaneously spurred our creative juices (Angry Ward is smiling/fuming someplace). Those juices, theretofore, bore the fruit of today’s column: Sports Snow-Jobs and Fill-Ins.
We’ll take Fill-Ins for $200 Alex…
The Greatest Sports Fill-In Ever: We can already see your collective Hate Mail flooding our MTM Studio for this one but Drew Bledsoe will be the first to tell you it’s got to be The Man With No Jersey, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr… 5-2 in Super Bowls with the most recent coming in an even more unbelievable fashion than Sean Connery beating up an entire bar with his thumb.
Our 2nd Greatest Sports Fill-In Ever: This is the more obvious and light-years more popular choice. He put Wally Pipp on the map… to Obscurity. Most of Mankind knows the story; Pipp wasn’t up to playing and kid named Lou Gehrig “filled-in” for at at 1B for the Stankees… Yankees. The Iron Horse never missed a game until tragically putting a face to a disease we still haven’t conquered. We need to do so.
The 3rd Greatest Sports Fill-In Ever: Tougher to select then the previous two but you don’t survive long here in Mattville by backing down from life-altering policy-making… vapid opinions. So here goes [drum-roll]… edging out Jeurys “Are You” Famila [With The Story of dopey Jenrry Mejia] and Dak Prescott is another modern-day QB… Russell Wilson. Yeah, that’s right. Mr. Wilson. He’s too short. He wasn’t even in the top five of the QBs in his draft year. 74 players were chosen before him. Matt Flynn and Tavares Jackson were better than him. He likes lattes… And yet, he is all you worry about when you think about the now-formidable Seahawks. Wilson, despite not having a true first name, has the most regular season wins in his first 5 seasons in NFL history. He is the first and the only quarterback in NFL history to have 4,000+ passing yards, 30+ passing touchdowns, and 500+ rushing yards in the same season. Yet his success has collateral damage. The Tri-City Dust Devils are still hurting after he stopped playing 2nd base for them.
Now for the Sports Snow-Jobs…
Actually, we don’t have any. THAT is your Sports Snow-Job for today. Boom. [Cue avalanche sound effect]. Now on to the next Doomsday forecast…
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