ELI’S Boot and Rally season

Every notice how many people complain about being hung over the day after the Super Bowl? Now maybe I have a genetic advantage being Irish, but don’t you want to yell at them its time for you to boot and rally. Which brings me to Eli, and I realize that Eli is the ultimate boot and rallier in every aspect. Sure he has shown the ability to rally by more fourth quarter backs than big brother Peyton, but this season symbolize the highs and lows felt when somebody boots and rallies.

 

Clearly Eli had his ups and downs this season. You could compare Eli’s season to a lame Friday night at a local bar filled with townies. Sure he was not accurate, similar to the beer layer in your stomach. Then his wide receivers dropped more balls then any team since the turn of the century, look it up, the equivalent of switching to vodka drinks, the beginning of trouble. Then the media starts making ill-informed cheap shots, basically doing shots of alcohol that you already swore off but who have to drink because your boss insists.  Then the Cowboys win the NFC east, your old girlfriend showing up with some guy who looks like a douche bag quarterback with a an earring, that’s right Tony Romo looks like a douche bag. Then comes the bad weather, basically the guy smoking a cheap cigar and being loud and obnoxious, taking away from the ambiance, it was just a bad time all around and the night could not end fast enough.

Then the cell phone rings and its your buddy wants to go to Atlantic City and take down the house, the 15-0 Patriots are coming to town and you are the last team that can beat them. Everybody says you should sit your starters against the Pats because you might get them hurt, just like all the lame people at the bar are telling you should just go home and save your money. Well Eli said fuck it. The Pats Game was the boot; from there on he had the greatest rally of all time. He started with some slots, the Bucs, and he built up bank by winning some jackpots. Then he moves on to the black Jack table, the cowboys, all he did was played one hand and followed all the blackjack rules, really jacked up his bankroll. Then he decided he wanted to play hold’em, the NFC champions game, but this was no Saints v Bear championship with guys who will be forgotten, but he went against a legend, Brett Favre, with that win he could do the Mike McDermott speech from “Rounders” where he talks about beating Jony Chan and that proved he could sit at the final table, the Super Bowl. But it was time to go home and Eli decided to put all of his winnings on 00 on the roulette wheel facing the undefeated Pats who already beat him, figuring if he lost, nothing gained, nothing lost. Rolling and rolling and rolling, and well all know how it ended. But it would have never happened if Eli Never booted and rallied.