Arlen Specter no longer has a political stage from which to spout insane grumblings about the NFL and his beloved Philadelphia Eagles. Fortunately, Edward Rendell is picking up the slack.
The 66-year-old governor of Pennsylvania was not happy with the postponement of the Eagles-Vikings game due to the blizzard that hammered the East Coast, and he let his frustrations be known on a Philadelphia radio station.
“I think we’ve become wussies,” Rendell said on 97.5 The Fanatic. “We’ve become a nation of wusses.”
How much are we wusses, you ask? Let’s just say there aren’t any Americans walking to football games while doing advanced math problems. Confused? Sure you are. Read on.
“The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything,” Rendell profoundly added. “If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium. They would have walked, and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.”
I’m sure they would have, Mr. Rendell, as marching while doing calculus is third on China’s favorite hobby list, right behind “kicking America’s butt in everything” and “not making imbeciles of themselves in radio interviews.”
Always good for a Philadelphia perspective is the Pulitzer-winning Buzz Bissinger, whose Twitter rants have become the stuff of legend. He couldn’t help but comment on this situation.
“Some of what Rendell is refreshing and honest. Some of what he says is stupid. This was stupid,” Bissinger wrote. “[I] love him, but [these comments are] exactly why he could never go national.”
It’s also worth noting, before everyone rushes to agree with Rendell regarding the wussification of America, that the roads in New Jersey and Pennsylvania were extraordinarily dangerous on Sunday night and Monday morning. So much so, in fact, that Patrick Elias and Travis Zajac spent Sunday night stuck in a car after playing a game for the New Jersey Devils, according to Tom Gulitti of The Record.
“I had a pack of peanuts and it lasted me eight hours,” Zajac said.
What a wuss, eh?
