Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Tuesday Morning QB: Where I didn't get to play the race card against Static's Team Krapsody since I lost

After attacking the gender of my opponent, Bex, in last week's Tuesday Morning QB post, I said I wouldn't go after the ethnicity of this week's opponent, Static, in today's Tuesday Morning QB post. That doesn't mean that before the outcome, I didn't think long and hard about playing the race card in this week's post, because I did. How could I not think about playing the race card when my opponent's avatar is this:

The possibilities were endless.

However, after comparing our rosters, I counted six individual white players on his team to four individual white players on my team, so I quickly dropped that idea. And when it came down to whom we each played, we actually were even steven in the race department: two white guys in Aaron Rodgers and Brent Celek for me to two white guys in Joe Flacco and Garrett Hartley for Static.

So so much for playing the race card...

...plus it would have worked only if I had won, which by virtue of losing 102-90, I didn't...well...win. There's no fun in making fun of a black guy who wins, unless you're a member of the Tea Party.

In the end, the game between Static and me came down to a pure numbers game.

Even if I had played Austin Collie instead of Steve Breaston and Arian Foster instead of Brandon Jackson, I only would have gained 10 points and still lost.

Hey, I'm just calling a spade a spade. You know what I'm saying?

It would seem like each week's of Tuesday Morning QB just gets riper and riper for the comic possibilities. First, I faced Bex's Battling Butterflies, a too-cute name for a team and a woman team owner to boot, then this week Static's Team Krapsody, which seemed too good a name to be true in terms of mockery and a black team owner to boot. Unfortunately, not everything as it seems. Next week I face Red Raider's Eunuchs. However, it might be more difficult than it seems since I'm not sure how to kick an opponent in the balls when he doesn't have any. I might just have to kick his ass.

9 comments:

Static said...

Goes to show you can't judge a book by it's "cover". This is why racism is so groundless. Ahhh, young grasshopper have much to learn.

*in the end, I see the lessons that have presented themselves have not deterred you from continuing the smack talk. =D

Chris C said...

Ryan Longwell is black?

Unfinished Rambler said...

Nope, it's true I judged you -- not because you're black, but because you're one of the new guys on the block and I thought you didn't know what you were doing. Obviously, you did.

Unfinished Rambler said...

Oops, last comment for Static, this one for Chris. I guess I shouldn't have spelled out which players were black and which players were right. After all, Thomas Jones and Frank Gore both sound like white names. ;)

renalfailure said...

RedRaider's from the South, so you can go after that like the Yankee carpetbagger you are, Rambler.

Canucklehead said...

I fear for all of Canuckistan when we play ... luckily enough, I'll win, eh?

Static said...

Cracka!

LOBO said...

Wait. Canucklehead is black?

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Static said...

You haven't quite evolved, have you?