Monday Night football it's more than a game. It's an institution! From the early days when Broadway Joe Namath the pride of Alabama graced the muddy fields of Cleveland's old Municipal Stadium in MNF's inaugural season through the many, many years of the Frank Gifford. Not since the great Gifford post season with Al Michaels, Dan Fouts, and Dennis Miller has MNF had such a colorful charachter as Chucky, the former side line madman with blond locks. Close your eyes and the story gets even better. I swear I am listening to Jack Burton. That's right, the Jack Burton; The fictitious Chinatown crime fighting trucker.
It's uncanny how Jon Gruden sounds like Jack Burton. Who? Not the question to ask the last time someone asked JB who he was he stuck a knife right between the toughest old bird in Chinatown with flames erupting from his eye sockets, David Lopan the king of the San Francisco Asian underworld.
We need to really appreciate what a great time Coach Gruden is going to grace us with this year. He's still a young guy barely over 40. He has won a Super Bowl. He is the last man to really make the Oakland Raiders a force since the devil started collecting on Al Davis's ass. Jon Gruden simply said, he's one heck of a head coach and someone should be sniffing around his whistle right after the regular season concludes.
Who is going to get their paws on Gruden in 2010? Well there are plenty of teams in need including two of his old employers the Buccaneers and the Raiders. Chances of the Bucs cutting their losses on their new hire, Mr. Whathisname who's pulling a Cam Cameron on the west coast of Florida. It might be too much for the Bucs to admit they needed to go in a different direction when it might have just been better for the Buc front office to admit they failed to get Gruden players in Tampa. The latter years of Jack Burton's voice over he had no quarterback. There was Chris Simms, Bruce Gradkowski, his Super Bowl winner, Brad Johnson, and Jeff Garcia, certainly not much to work with but Gruden found ways to make them winners. Then there is the Raiders, wouldn't that be a hoot to see Gruden back with Al.
The obvious would be right there in Cleveland. Gruden is an Ohio guy, he played his college ball for the mighty Flyers in Dayton. He won a Division III championship for the Flyers back in the mid-80's. I know I was there, kegs of beer, late nigh pizza desperately trying to find a last ditch effort for female companionship, and Jon Gruden winning a low level collegiate championship for the Dayton Flyers. Cleveland needs a proven winner. The front office on Lake Erie just east of the Cuyahoga River is ready to spend, is working diligently to get a winner and desperately licking their wounds chomping at the bit to get rid of Eric Mangini the "Jet Reject" football nerd who is posing as a NFL football coach. Want a winner Cleveland, fire Mangina and start courting Chucky now! He might not last because hot on your heels will be another midwestern football crazed community that is looking for a head coach.
Notre Dame, what's that the Golden Domers? Yes, Notre Dame. Recruiting will be involved and who better than a Super Bowl winning head coach to come in and take the country by storm. Pete Carroll never made the playffos during his stints in the Meadowlands and Foxboro before taking off for the golden talent filled cupboards in Southern California. It's a match made in heaven; Jon Gruden and Notre Dame. Notre Dame needs a winner and who else would you rather want then the man who sounds like the man who took down the Godfather of Chinatown. That's right when your in the Super Bowl, it's the fourth quarter, your team is up by 3, their driving, and they come up just short on third down and your facing a fourth down and inches and on the other side of the ball is a drooling Payton Manning. Then your gimpy aged quarterback asks, "do you think that play call is gonna work?" you tell that old QB just what Jack Burton would say, "Listen here son, the checks in the mail, you just be ready for the Disneyland commercials!"
Well, who's ready to ride the Porkchop Express? Notre Dame or Cleveland?
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