Friday, September 10, 2010

Dexter Manley - Football God

As I try to write a bunch of metaphysical gibberish about the upcoming Redskins season, working myself into an early state of depression out of fear and loathing for what's most likely ahead, I was brightened this morning to find out that Dexter Manley has a TV Show now, one which includes him talking to puppets about football.

As if that is not enough to make you understand not only what a great idea this is but also how wonderful Dexter Manley is as a human being and ambassador of the Redskins way of football (not to be confused with this charlatan Dan Snyder way of football), here is a quote from his first episode: "You must be willing to run over your grandmother, your mother, your sister, and your little sister, and all your other sisters out there. Either you got a lot of illegitimate kids, run over them. Run over dogs, cats, whatever it is you run over them to beat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night.” This is the type of insight those suit-and-tie pre-game shows are desperately lacking.
Here is the website for Dexter's Rush Hour. When Sam Huff dies - God forbid - I hope they put Dexter Manley in the booth of the Redskins radio crew.

1 comment:

Neil said...

I remember being a kid and learning that Dexter Manley was illiterate and being absolutely mystified. It was my first exposure to adult illiteracy and somehow it made him seem even more badass, like he was just some savage brute pulled in off the streets to kill Quarterbacks and then they had to cage him after the game and put him on a leash and shit. Wait, that's probably all pretty racist but fuck it.