Sunday Morning and too Much Coffee

I know a lot about the Carolina Panthers. As a lifelong Seahawks fan I have learned to always have a secondary team to cheer for as the playoffs moved on. With my beloved Hawks generally tanking early in the playoffs (this assumes of course that they have always made it that far to begin with) I have grown accustom to finding another team to get me through to the Super Bowl, thus my knowledge of many other teams in the NFL.

A few years back, when I had a real job, I knew this Human Resources dude. He would always say “I sure hope you have a resume in your back pocket,” This was of course the variation of the “If you don’t have a resume in your back pocket, you’re too stupid to work here.” statement. Great statements made in the business world are very much like “Urban Legends”, it is generally hard to trace the origin of them and who really ever said them the 1'st time.

You know when you stop and think about it, many companies, are just like sports teams. The LA Rams became the St Louis Rams, the Baltimore Colts are the Indy Colts and the Ravens merely bought a new team to an old market, and so on. Exxon merged with Mobil; Chevron is now in bed with Texaco and so on. At some point the lines gets lost and the bad guys are now the good guys and your best opponent is now your boss. Ok it’s a stretch but one I’m willing to ride through.

So back to my original thought, as it were. As a fan of the Seahawks, it has always been a requirement to have another plan and that is why I now find myself cheering against a team I have cheered for in the past, The Panthers have always been the resume in my back pocket. The plan “B” team just in case plan “A” lost early in the playoffs.

The media also has this other plan thing going. I believe that they will spend more time talking about the Patriots or Colts losing, then they ever will about Seattle winning. I told a close friend, if her Steelers were to play the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, they would have to rename it the Rodney Dangerfield bowl. No respect.