You Take What You Need and You Leave the Rest

Tom Hanks may have once said that "there's no crying in baseball"*, but apparently it's okay to shed a few tears in two of the most rough and tumble American adventures: football and politics.

In the span of less than a week, the American public has seen two of the more polarizing figures in their respective professions, Terrell Eldorado Owens (yes, Eldorado is his real middle name) and Hillary Rodham Clinton, get a bit misty-eyed over the stresses of a playoff loss and a tough primary battle respectively.

Let's go to the videotape.

First, HRC weeps in the Granite State:

Thank you, Mrs. Clinton.

Now, on to Mr. "Get Your Popcorn Ready" himself during yesterday's post-game press conference.

While pundit after pundit has speculated on whether the New Hampshire electorate was swayed by HRC's moment of vulnerability, the only people swayed by the tears of T.O. were probably the assembled media members, who likely began asking each other if this was the same guy that had thrown not one, but two, former quarterbacks under the bus after things soured in San Francisco and the City of Brotherly Love.

In the end, more people will probably remember the tear-duct tango of the former First Lady rather than #81, but T.O.'s "Don't Cry for Me, Tony Romo" moment is much more fun to quote.

I can just see it now...

[Scene: Corner Office, Meeting between Supervisor and lower-level associate]

Boss:

Jim, I think we're going to have to let Larry go over this botched deal with Kellogg's.

Jim:

You can point the finger at him. You can talk about the vacation to Banff, but I think that's really unfair. That's really unfair (start sniffles).

Jim:

That's my regional manager (sniffles). That's my sales hero (more sniffles). I think that's really unfair. We lost as a sales department. A sales department, man.

[Fade to black]


*Not that I've seen A League of Their Own or anything. Um, let's just say I heard it from a friend of a friend of a friend.