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Back in the 1970s, the Washington Bullets found themselves one game away from winning the NBA championship when a reporter asked coach Dick Motta if his team was ready to take the title.
“The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings,” he said.
This became one of the most famous and everlasting quotes in the history of sports. It had people going to the research sources to find out what it meant. Turns out, at the end of most or all operas a fat lady sings to close out the show. Motta must have been an opera guy when not diagramming pick and rolls for Phil Chenier and Elin Hayes.
I am sharing this long-ago vignette because it’s relevant now as the hours tick away since the Super Bowl mercifully ended on Sunday. My one thought about the game is this “The Super Bowl ain’t over till Sammy Sportface posts a blog.” Stick a fork in the Super Bowl once you finish reading this fountain of insights.
I didn’t watch most of the second half and OT of the game because I didn’t care who won and didn’t want to watch Kelsey lip-smack Taylor on the field amid the confetti.
Nothing against love – especially with Valentine’s Day tomorrow – but something about this couple feels too invasive in our lives. Fine, love each other but get a room.
It’s time, now, that we turn our attention to the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris where the entire world would, you would think, get a reprieve from the most famous couple on Earth. And I was hoping this couple would not be at the center of this global extravaganza, but then it dawned on me that NBC wants nothing more than to attract more eyeballs to boob tubes. Which means they’re going to find a way to get Travis entered in several events so he can be on the tube and they can show Taylor watch the Chief God perform then embrace and lip touch.
We might as well resign ourselves that this will happen. I can see him being on the swimming team doing the 50-yard freestyle because that doesn’t take too much to prepare for. I can also see him being a decathlete running around, pole vaulting, and heaving the javelin. And letting up raucous grunts.
I can’t see him in the marathon because he’s 280 pounds and you have to weigh between 80 and 100 pounds to qualify for that event, nor fencing because he’s too macho for that, but maybe break dancing because he’s ostentatious and I think Taylor would like to watch him do that and maybe join him and wouldn’t that make the entire human race apoplectic?
What all this amounts to is more public displays of affection after each event. The main NBC network will cover all things Travis and Taylor and the rest of the events will be on Peacock or some other less important NBC channel.
This we will endure this summer. Travis and Taylor, Taylor and Travis, kissing and hugging and holding hands walking around the Olympic Village, taking selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower, driving us all out of our skulls.
Again.
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