Double T - vs - 666
Browsing indiscriminatively as we were, the other day, as we do once in a blue moon and twice on a gray one, and we stumbled across (not upon - thus, no credit should ever be given to StumbleUpon, herein; just pointing that out for whomever's interested to know...) this God-Awful headline right here:
Tim Tebow to honor God during the 666th ‘Monday Night Football’ game
Like, YEAH... SO WHAT?
This was, of course, another one courtesy of them folks over at
- ugh!
Commenters, immediately following the so-called ''article'' there, with such dismissals as ''The media: making something out of nothing since the dawn of time.'' (that came courtesy of one Jennilynn A. - my, thank you, Jennilynn A. for dropping your two cents' worth there and nailing the nail right on its crooked head in the process! Smart chick!)
Said so-called ''article'' had come from the versatile quill of a certain ''MJD'' - he (or she?) who contributes to and hails from the nether regions of that Shutdown Corner over there...! Let's not go there...!
Alas, perhaps we have no other choice but to step on its outer limits for a second - in the twilight hours (if no zoning is done, per say, here) as the mere fringe delimitations here are begging for a tiny bit of clarification now - lest we use, outright, one of our favorite verbs here and now: ''illuminating''...? (No relation to the Illuminati - fear not!)
For this ''shutdown corner'' there harkens back to all of those tall tales dispensers of old: with the specialized twist that it adheres only to the wild wild world of sports! As trivial as we have come to find such a wilderness (man-fabricated as it is) one must admit that, sometimes, it will still find some insidious way to captivate us or simply attract our attention (however fleeting that will be, too) for all sorts of reasons - and that alone, in this day and age of short-attention spans spreading fast and furiously all across the globe, is an achievement of sorts.
''MJD'' was right to spend an hour or so ''investigating'' this (very) trivial bit of ''news'' - as it combined all the following elements -sports event, marquee match-up (sort of) and Monday night tradition along with esoterism, prophecy and the Great Unknown - which is kind of rare, indeed.
However, ''MJD'' was wrong in going about his ''coverage'' the way he did: totally sarcastically, without a shadow of awe or respect, with complete disdain for the true message ''Double T'' there, Tim Tebow, was delivering in his world-famous (for fifteen seconds, maybe) tweet about this particular edition of Monday Night Football (as seen below...)
This tweet was actually the sole reason why (and inspiration for) ''MJD'' there penned a short (extremely short) so-called ''article'' on this apparent meaningful convergence of having perhaps the first NFL player (in a long, looooooong time) totally and completely open about his Christianity playing in a game that, it just so happens. will be the 666th of a long-standing American tradition.
''MJD'' immediately dismisses this by stating, within his first five lines, that ''it seems ridiculous to point out a connection between the number 666 and the backup quarterback who gives all the glory to God and Jesus wherever he goes'' - gee, why, ''MJD''...? Why would it be so ''ridiculous'' as you say, when the two basic elements there (the mark of the beast and a devout Christian) are very intricately connected, in fact... Besides, as far as the ''long standing American tradition'' aspect goes, the mark of the beast has been written all over all manners of American traditions since even before 1776...! So never mind this latest presence of it, on this rather insignificant ''matchup'' (as you wrote) in the NFL here... The most telling thing about it is that it involved a team from New York and them Texans: did you get this part, MJD? Noooooo, of course not, too busy and happy that you were having fun at Tebow's expense... Get it, now: the mark of the beast match-up did not involve beastly teams such as the Bears, the Lions, the Eagles, the Seahawks or even the poor hapless (and thus sacrificial) Bengals. The Bible has enough imagery as it is: in order to safely deliver the message here, and truly drive it all the way home, to all the numbskulls that populate America, the match-up bearing the ominous number ''666'' involved only representatives of the most vile of all prototypical ''Ugly Americans'' there could be: New Yorkers and Texans. Take that, MJD, and stuff it in your pipe!
(Especially if you're a girl...? À bon entendeur - salut!)
Now back to the match-up... (Wow; this blog post is already twice longer than the execrable so-called ''article'' that inspired it, which was, of course, at least ten times longer than the mere ''tweet'' that had inspired *it* in the first place...! Hey - no big deal there: anyone can top the mere 144 character-limitation Twitter imposes!)
''MJD'' there (keep projecting some sort of ''MaryJaneDesdemona'' each time I type ''MJD'' - sheesh!) dares to push the sarcasm further through a bogus analysis of what the 666th game itself will be: citing the records of both teams involved (Houston Texans came in undefeated, 4-0, while the New York Jets were playing .500 ball, at 2-2. The fact that Tebow played for the Jets at the time (he moved on shortly thereafter; or, rather, they moved him - the ungrateful bastards! Hey, it's New York; what else can you expect?) made ''MJD'' imply that they were ''GOD's team'' in this match-up; making the Texans horned devils of the Antichrist by default? Now THAT was truly ridiculous!)
''MJD'' verses pseudo-philosophico-theologico for a second (lest it is only bottom-of-the-barrel shrink crap, really) when he (or she, again) ponders deeper things concerning the life a Christian such as Tim Tebow, bashing Tebow some more as he (we definitely will presume ''MJD'' to be a ''he'' henceforth!) imagines that ''every minute of his life must pit Tim Tebow against Satan - no?'' MJD then renounces delving any deeper into such questions, leaving it up to ''religious scholars'' (he actually precised) and
''possibly'' one Merril Hoge... Wow, MJD knows who Merril Hoge is...?!? He may even recall which teams Hoge played for, back in the day, too? (Steelers - and Bears.) Quite obviously, MJD went much further than just checking the numbers that will follow shortly (...) but we wouldn't expect MJD to know about this team though... ;-)
''MJD'' had loads of fun likening the Jets and Texans to living to the status of a metaphorical ''God vs Satan'' match-up, although ''666'' specifically designated the beast, which is the Antichrist, no one else. ''MJD'' can't be blamed for not knowing that and being all confused, from that point on... At that point, in the original so-called ''article'' that is, Yahoo felt obliged to sneak in another one of them infamous ''related content'' - in this case, it was this other denigrating piece titled Jets not ready for Tebow time. Ugh. Tim must have appreciated - as he does all the attention the media gives him over his faith. The only way a bounced-around, underperformer like him would have gotten any more coverage would have been if he had turned out gay, HIV-positive or both - right? In this day and age, having faith and being ''out of the norm'' in any other way is equated as one and the same thing.
But let's not go there either.
''MJD'' admitted it bluntly next: had it been left up to him, he would have never had the imagination required to ''ponder the relevance'' of this being a 666th occurrence - heck, he would have not have even known about ''the involvement'' (as he phrased it) of the number 666 in Monday night's eventually most lopsided game...! Hmm... Can't you count, MJD? Are you lacking perspective, too? This ABC tradition (now passed on to ESPN) being as long-running as it has been, didn't you remember the hoopla over the 500th game...? Or it completely blew by you? Were you even BORN, back then? The question begs to be asked... Furthermore, since this ABC/ESPN telecast has been so long-running, it even beat Bonanza's record, did you have any inkling whatsoever that they might be approaching such a number, by now...? I mean, from 1970 to 2005, alone... On ESPN since then... The ''involvement'' of one outspoken Christian in the actual game was not even necessary or significant: the fact that such a telecast, which has led countless to bet on NFL games' outcomes and ruined their lives, reaches this pinnacle in the years following the all-important year 2000 should have sufficed...
Next, ''MJD'' becomes extremely selective and rambles a bit about how ''this subject would have held more interest'' for him. Two thing, out of all other possibilities, are mentioned: whether Tebow ''was likely to participate in the actual game much at all'' or, and this takes the cake, ''if the sum of the numbers worn by the Texans defensive starters added up to 666.'' Gee, really - the defensive starters? And the numbers they wear, not their age? Why defensive players, at all, MJD? Is your view of the devil such that it is, to you, but a poor creature, on the defense all the time, being accused left and right of all the ills of the world, doomed to defend itself against unrelenting attacks and onslaughts, since time immemorial...? Because that is what this appears to be implying here...! And that, ladies, pseudo-ladies, bogus ladies, unladies, anti-ladies and germs all-around, that simply is not the devil I know...!
Again, we are trying to get into the head of ''MJD'' here - and view things as his flawed eyes see them! It was *he* that purported that this ''Tebow-666 matchup'' pretty much equaled a ''Team God versus Team Satan (Texan?) battle on the gridiron'' here...!
''MJD'' picked the defensive starters because, when he wasted time (as I am, penning this) summing the offensive numbers worn by the offense, it didn't add up to something close to 666. Plus, Tebow plays against these guys, being a replacement quarterback and all... Flawed logic, once again, but it played well into ''MJD''s hands, as the sum of those parts yielded a 669. ''Very close'' as he admitted, but no cigar. However, ''MJD'' extrapolated, just for fun, that if DESTINY rolled its oftentimes DEVILISH hand, the Texans' Shaun Cody might not be amongst the starters, as he was listed as ''probable'' heading into game time. Cody's number is 95 and his possible replacement (Earl Mitchell) wears number 92, ''thus lowering the (total) count by three and putting us right at 666'' as MDJ was all too happy to conclude. At this point ''MJD'' concludes in complete derision with these two lines: ''at which point everyone's television would immediately burst into flame. Enjoy the game tonight. Hopefully ESPN can get the Pope in the booth to help break things down.''
Sooooooo funny, MJD...
As another commenter suggested, in regards to this approach to ''journalism'' here; ''I think he's compensating for something, hmmm?'' Sure looks that way...
The funniest thing of all is that, with ESPN now into the mix, as ABC is the one network with seniority that allowed it to get it but recorded much of that much-vaunted longevity in broadcasting, they might be have been off by one in this entire count...! For the much-vaunted, usually reliable (when outside jerks don't ''sabotagedit'' the data there) Wikipedia states that ''As of October 8, 2012, the Monday Night Football franchise had aired a total of 667 games.''
Hence, Tim Tebow, the modern-day crusader of the Christian Faith and One True God, might not have been involved in the 666th game at all, after all - it might have been the 667th, in fact?
For all his good will, and great faith, Tim might not know how to count?
And Yahoo yellow-or-green journalists might not know how to check their facts!
And so there goes all the fun that ''MJD'' had there - all down the toilet! Where it belongs...
ONE THING IS FOR DAMN SURE HERE: *I* WILL NOT WASTE A SECOND MORE TO GO BACK INTO THE ARCHIVES AND COUNT HOW MANY GAMES THERE WERE TELECAST BEFORE THE TEXANS-JETS ''MATCHUP''...!!!
Who gives a damn... I know I don't! My faith is based on other occurrences, that have nothing to do with the sum of the spar parts needed to put together two non-contending, non-significant ''football'' teams - and the term ''football'' here is so loosely used, as this crap is NOT ''football'' as we know it! The real football is the one that is played in Europe and all over the rest of the world: and the nitwit Americans call that ''soccer''... Poor suckers!
But that is another story...
How about ending this as painfully as possible with another series of hits, insults and injuries inflicted upon man by other men of that woeful gridiron...? That ranks pretty high on the list of things that I am quite lukewarm about! Have a look - if still possible when *you* stumble across *this* blog right here:
Okay, if that wasn't possible - how about more comments? Because there are quite priceless ones thrown in there, at times: aside from the ''this was a complete waste of time'' garbage ones, that is...
Like David W. who commented ''If Jesus were around today, do you think he'd be tweeting: "Gonna go out today and multiply me some loaves! And some fishes too!"?
Pride is a sin. One of the deadly ones, actually.''
Or a certain Yahoo (user) going by the name Call them out who decried these proceedings, also, by invoking the Good Book... "“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners [and the end zone and Twitter], that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward." ~ Matthew 6:5
A certain Theodore (not José, I hope...) wondered about another player on that gridiron: ''Why doesn't Andrew Luck wear lucky number 7? That would be cool with his name and the horseshoe on the helmet.''
Thanatos was just mean when he worded the vile hypothesis that ''since the Jets couldn't pull off a miracle at the end, does that mean Tebow failed and Satan won?'' You wish, Reaper...
Back on the subject of PURE DUMB LUCK, perhaps, an umpteenth Kevin inquired about the effectiveness of a rabbit's foot...? For, as he surmised (and so would we all) ''it wasn't lucky for the rabbit was it???''
Finally, user ACACIA72 had a brief moment of wonder in re: ''a monkey's paw?'' before simply telling everyone in the NFL to ''shut up and play''...
And me? All I want to comment further on this is...
GOD Doesn't Care about American ''football''
- the real FOOTBALL, sure, but certainly not the NFL...!
Luminous Has Spoken! Er... Blogged!+++More Yahoo fluff - anyone?Maybe I'll blog about these, too - but don't hold your breath!
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