The Patriots miraculously escaped a hanging, the Seahawks did not. It’s the difference between Gay’s “Beggars Opera” and Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
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The Super Bowl, Comic & Tragic Versions
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NFL Rookie QBs and Mac the Knife
RGIII, Russell Wilson, and Andrew Luck are escape artists in the mode of Mac the Knife.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I burn my candle at both ends", Andrew Luck, Beggar's Opera, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Football, Homer, Joel Chandler Harris, John Gay, NFL, Odyssey, Robert Griffin III, Sports Comments closed
