One of my favorite Simpsons moments and appropriate for this week’s game
(also I just read a book on Unitas and watched a doc on Namath and even though they are polar opposites personality-wise they’re my two favorite football players ever. One day I would like to teach a class on how sports reflected/helped shape America. These two men are great examples of both reflecting their decades and igniting change)
Mona: “Abe, isn’t Homer cute?”
Abe: “Probably. I’m trying to watch the Super Bowl. If people don’t support this thing, it might not make it.”
Howard Cosell: “Joe Willy Namath, swaggering off the field, his sideburns an apogee of sculpted sartorium. The foppish follicles pioneered by Ambrose Burnside, Appomattox 1865.”
(opening bars of Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower” are played)
Mona: “His wild, untamed facial hair revealed a new world of rebellion, of change. A world where doors were open for women like me, but Abe was stuck in his button down plastic fantastic Madison Avenue scene.”
Grampa: “Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl. Now, Johnny Unitas, there’s a haircut you could set your watch to.”
