Maybe Governor Rendell can get the college flags of a Chinese team?
Over the recent Great Blizzard of ’10, the NFL chose to cancel a scheduled game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings on account of the bad weather – and, more notably, the near-impossible traveling conditions. Governor Rendell, however, complained about the act, saying that the move was just the latest example of how America has become a “nation of wussies.”
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So just how did Chinese college flags get dragged into this?
Well, insofar as the governor went on to reference the Chinese – which is quite the fashion in Modern Day jeremiad composition, such that even liberal NYT columnists like Thomas “Flat World” Friedman has taken up the hobby – by comparing the American lack of intestinal fortitude to the mythical Chinese (“people would have been marching down to the stadium…and they would have been doing calculus on the way down”), maybe he should more properly be rooting for a Chinese football team.
Perhaps the NFL can expand into the ever-developing Chinese market and encounter the kind of success which has greeted the NBA?
Workers at Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philly Eagles, got the the final laugh, though – or maybe not, because the governor also good-naturedly shared in the joke. When the Sunday game resumed on Tuesday night, a pile of snow and also a sign declaring the seat is to be “reserved for non-wussies” marked out Rendell’s seat from those of others in the stadium. Laughing it off, he sat in his seat and also removed his winter hat – presumably to better project his machismo.
Sad to say, however, the only real NFL expansion plans for China at the moment seem limited to the manufacturing of officially licensed team jerseys, beach towels, as well as perhaps some college flags.
