You know what's good luck for a Patriots Super Bowl win? Flying to the host city a few days early, bringing my buddy House, and taping multiple podcasts from the Bud Light Hotel. I know it sounds like a weird superstition, but I've been doing it since 2001, even before podcasts were invented.
Today's two-parter kicked off with the NFL Network's Mike Lombardi talking about Sunday's game, Peyton Manning's next stop and who is the worst possible Redskins QB to revile House. Then reality czar David Jacoby reviewed The Challenge and the Souper Bowl.
There is the victory you enjoy in private, at the end of a hard-fought day, with the family or close friends, feelings of ambient, total satisfaction in the chest and a cold beer in hand. And then there is the victory experienced in public: the gratuitous bat-flip and slow trot, the penalty for excessive celebration you’ll gladly take, kissing your badge to taunt the opposing fans. Generally, this second type of celebration is not permitted to NFL coaches; a fist-pump and a smile are about as swaggy as it gets. Which is why a good press conference can make for such great theater, the delicate and unlikely battlefield where these hypercompetitive leaders of hypercompetitive men might begin to work through some those accruing aggressions.
