This morning on the world-wide leader in sports (broadcasting? analysis?), Sean Salisbury was asked to comment on Plaxico's prediction that the Giants will win Sunday's game, 23-17.
He said this was a bad move by Plaxico because it would get the Pats fired up and put pressure on him individually. He supported this brilliant point by stating "there's only one Joe Willie Namath."
Yes, your right Sean "If I wasn't inexplicably one of the lead football analysts for ESPN I'd be roofying co-eds' drinks at a bar in Daytona" Salisbury, there is only one guy who is unquestionably the most over-rated quarterback in Football History, there is only one guy who wore panty-hose on national TV AND drunkenly tried to kiss a woman who was interviewing him while said interview was being broadcast over a similar medium, and there is only one guy who used to do a pretty solid job hawking CD players for Nobody Beats The Wiz back in the day.
But Joe Namath is not exactly the Nostradamus of sports. He was (like Plaxico) a cocky, arrogant athlete who ran his mouth a little too much and fortunately happened to back it up, despite not playing particularly great in Super Bowl III. Besdies Joe Willie guaranteed a win, Plaxico just predicted one.
(I seem to remember a guarantee worked out pretty well for one Mark Messier. Obviously, 15yo me sitting up near the roof of that crummy arena in the Meadowlands willed the Rangers to victory that night, but I think Messier's 3 goals may have also contributed. )
Here's hoping the Giants win 23-17 and in 30 years we're watching Plaxico on his own reality show. I'd also just take a Giants' win.
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