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Satire: To Bob Kraft, Human Winning Machine

Written by Tuffy
Published November 19, 2007

Dear Robert K. Kraft,

We have noted your busy day Sunday from afar and wish to congratulate you. We cannot help but admire your devotion to success at all costs.

At 9 am PST (Patriots Standard Time), you stepped off your helicopter and boarded your Gulfstream in Boston (at a private airport, no doubt; no one likes flying out of Logan) and landed in Washington, D.C. in time to occupy the catbird seat at RFK Stadium to watch your New England Revolution battle the Houston Dynamo for the second season in a row in the MLS Cup, a quaint little soccer final we have come to enjoy here. ABC's announcers spent a good one-forty-fifth of the contest fellating you as the best thing to happen to American soccer since Pelé (or perhaps David Hirshey).

We were sad to note that your Revolution came to an end in the final game for the third time in a row (and fourth in six years). Still, we know you will eventually persevere; you say you want a revolution and the first one did go so very well for you and yours the first time around in New England.

After that bitter pill, you probably received another helly ride to the local airport of your choice for a trip no man makes after September of his own volition: trudging off to Buffalo. Still, you made it in plenty of time to see your Patriot boys take perfection into double digits with a 56-10 victory over the Bills. There was no doubt you would make it, of course, after you encouraged NBC and the NFL to select the game as a 'flex' game to be moved to the evening. You're a man that likes his schedule just so and knows how to get it that way; we appreciate that.

So now we come to the heart of the matter. We find ourselves in need of a man with the Midas touch, able to get things done at any cost. (Like that Belichick fellow. Could you get him a suit, though? He appears to be escaped from a nursing home.) We are looking a bit down in the table at the moment and those ahead of us tend to be run by those who do not object to slyness in the name of winning. Even those that play on the up-and-up are also being courted by those that find rules to be an unnecessary inhibitor to success.

We've seen our new man's tepid track record. We know what you can do. Therefore, we hope you will reconsider your initial interest in our future.

Barring that, have you any spare video equipment? Wayne Rooney's exquisite tastes caught on film could help us in an upcoming tilt.

Best,
Liverpool FC Fans

Tuffy cares about you. While others have neglected you, Tuffy has not forgotten you. Just lie back and think of Tuffy. Tuffy keeps his work at Refrigerator Logic at 40 degrees F.
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Satire: To Bob Kraft, Human Winning Machine
Published: November 19, 2007
Type: Satire
Section: Sports
Filed Under: Sports: Football (American), Sports: Football (English)
Writer: Tuffy
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#1 — November 19, 2007 @ 01:26AM — Matthew T. Sussman [URL]

Kraft strikes me more as a guy who would buy a Bundesliga team.

Heil VfB Kraftwerk

#2 — November 19, 2007 @ 13:46PM — Tuffy [URL]

"Mom, if you were in a German Bundesliga video, you'd tell me, right?"

#3 — November 19, 2007 @ 16:12PM — Matthew T. Sussman [URL]

♬ Now I had heard the Germans recruited old maids for the team ♬ But mommy isn't one of those ♬ I've known her all these years ♬

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