As I was leaving Shaws this morning, after picking up my daily energy drink and PowerBar (yeah, I workout...), I stopped to take a gander at the front page of whatever newspaper was lying around. In a shocking bit of news, the Post called the Pats cheaters...bunch of a-holes. Get over it already. The Portland Press threw in thier hat with a "hard-hitting" piece about Pats gear (which reminds me, I've got to buy the kid a Brady jersey...and not a pink one. I'm thinking silver) and where to get it. Lame. But then my wanderin' eyes fell upon the front page of America's favorite rag (and only cause it has pretty colors), USA Today. There I saw three picutres; QB/Coach Tandems from the past and present. In the Zeros, you had Brady/Billy. The 80's belonged to Joe/Walsh. And on to the 70's, owned by Bradshaw/Chuck. I guess nobody was good enough to rule the 90's.
Now I agree. These 6 dudes ruled their respective decades. But I wondered what it was about these pairing that made them work. In each pics there is a coaching mastermind who can only be refered to as a genius. Then there is the Quarterback...its easy to draw parelles between them and Robert Reford in "The Natural". Then I had a "Tenaciou D and the Pick of Destiny" moment. Of all of you who havent seen this cinematic adventure, Jack Black and Kyle Gass want to form the greatest band EVER! They slowly realize that, well, they suck. JB picks up a copy of "Rolling Stone" to look for inspirating. KG quickly notices the P.O.D. (Pick of Destiny...try and keep up). It turns out all great rockers at one time or another had in their posession the P.O.D. Formed from the tooth of the Devil him(or her)self, the P.O.D gives the player limitless guitar strummin' ability.
It was then I realized what it was that these three photos had in common...a dimple. Its true. Brady, Montanta, and Bradshaw all had a cleft chin. Throughout time, the chin dimple, and to a less extent the cheek dimple, has brough great power to many a dude. Superman...ummm...Bruce Campbell, Kirk and Michael Douglas. OK, the list is lame...but you get the point. You can argue that these QB have the heart of a champion, the desire to win, the "It" factor...whatever floats your boat...its the dimple, and nothing will change my mind.
Wikipedia classifies the dimple as, basically, a deformaty. A malformation of the lower jaw. Well if a deformany can help me land a Victoria Secret covergirl, score me a couple Super Bowl rings, AND make the secret desire of every dude in the greater New England area...I wanna look like Sloth from 'The Goonies'..odd parelle number two...Sloth was rocking a Superman shirt. Coincidence, I think not.
So heres to you all you dudes who dream of one day fathering the perfect child with striking good looks and cannon of an arm...may your boy come out looking like he has a butt on the bottom of his face!