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Christie Tapped to Captain the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders

By Tommy DeSeno

Christie cheerleaderSo that’s why he wanted to lose all that weight.

Since we have nothing better to do here in New Jersey, for instance, trying to stop Atlantic City from crumbling into the water, or hoping that Trenton does, let’s wring our collective hands over the Governor cheering for the Giants’ divisional rival while bromance hugging Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. I’m a Jets fan. If it weren’t for this distraction I’d be scouting the Pop Warner leagues to find my team a better coach than the one we just fired.

Governor Christie has really bad optics by publicly wearing Texas spurs. Why? Because Football ain’t baseball, that’s why. Politicians can only lose more votes in the football world than they can gain. Everybody knows that.

Howie Long said in his Hall of Fame enshrinement speech that baseball is America’s pastime, but football is truly America’s passion. He’s right. The emotions in football run hotter and more wild than any other sport. (I know — not as hot as soccer fans who kill each other at games on other continents, but that’s just another in a long list of reasons why America is better than the rest of the world.)

As raw as emotions can be in football, they are magnified in the NFC East. Have you ever gone on social media on a Sunday to see the vitriol between Cowboys, Giants and Eagles fans? They conjure up enough putrid hatred to be the reason North Jersey smells the way it does. I can’t print the bad stuff, but the G-rated material is that like the Liberty Bell, the Eagles have no ring, Giants fans are reminded that you can’t spell eliminated without “Eli” and the Cowboys are told that Tony Romo in Spanish is Mark Sanchez. Then there are the Washington Palefaces, a team no one cares about these days but Al Sharpton. (I’d say that team’s real name but I fear Eric Holder will indict me for a hate crime.)

The point is, the NFC East is no place for a politician with national aspirations to pick up votes. As soon as you pick up one vote in Texas, you lose three in NY, Philly and DC. It’s better to just steer clear of that.

The only excusable cheering for a politician is to root for the hometown team. That’s acceptable because it at least shows the qualities of loyalty, allegiance and by extension patriotism. You are with your guys, no matter what. Even the rivals understand that and give it a pass.

Simply not rooting for the home team is considered an inexcusable character flaw by the hometown fans, but to go and root for a hometown rival is different. That’s an offense punishable by political death. Remember in Dante’s Inferno, heresy is the sixth circle of hell, but the 9th circle, the last one where the really bad guys go, is for traitors.

I don’t care how much the Governor protests that he has been a lifelong Cowboys fan. Stupid is as stupid hugs and hugging Jerry Jones gets a flag — and I don’t mean the kind of flag that gets picked up by a referee after Dez Bryant tells him he has to do it. I mean a real, non-reviewable penalty.

In politics, you have to give up certain things. One of those things is cheering for anyone but the home team. Just ask Rudy Giuliani. The Mayor was a life-long Yankee fan, who while running for President, infamously said that he would root for the Red Sox against Colorado in the 2007 World Series.

He’s not President.

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Posted: January 5th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Humour, Opinion | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

3 Comments on “Christie Tapped to Captain the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders”

  1. NJ football team???? said at 6:52 pm on January 5th, 2015:

    By the way, NJ does NOT have a football team!
    Where is the J in NY? Last I looked its NY Jets, NY Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.

    Happy the Governor stays loyal and is transparent about it!

    He can cheer on whichever team his little heart desires. This is America last I looked, I suggest naysayers practice what they preach, Freedom of Choice works for me, Freedom of Speech and Freedom to love or hate Dallas Cowboys! God I Love America
    and Merry Christmas.

  2. Bob English said at 8:36 am on January 6th, 2015:

    He can root for whatever team he wants as far as I’m concerned however with all of the problems the state faces (most of which have gotten worse under Christie) I’d rather him resign than have a Governor who seems to be constantly out of state….roughly all or parts of 1/3 of the days since his reelection. There is no need to him to be attending the swearing in ceremony’s of numerous governors around the country when NJ is in dire straights.

  3. Bored now. said at 11:30 pm on January 7th, 2015:

    And why exactly is NJ in such “dire straits”.
    hmmmm,
    oh, I wonder why. (yawn)

    Perhaps it’s time to publish a very long list. One that starts with the present players and goes back a few decades or more. With all the names and titles you’d need to include, it would make for one helluva little black book.

    So please, Bob English, quit being so disingenuous. Wannabes with a thinly veiled ulterior motive are a dime a dozen on the internet. It’s really gotten soooo verrrrry old. Try being a little creative for a change. Try honesty.

    Hey I know! You can start by telling people you’re a Democrat right up front. A Democrat who would never support a Republican NJ Governor Chris Christie, or ANY Republican NJ Governor, or any Republican NJ Senator, Republican NJ Congressman, Republican Freeholder, etc., etc., etc., … regardless of the circumstance.

    That would be honesty. And that would be a refreshing change of pace from you. Other than that, well… (yawn).