Sometime in December, the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey interviewed Governor Chris Christie at Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton. More recently, “U.S. attorney Paul Fishman subpoenaed Christie’s re-election campaign and the legislative committee that investigated the bridge closures.”
Then, of course, Christie was seen on national television last weekend congratulating Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones on his team’s first playoff victory since 2009.
I know that a lot of people don’t care about football, and that’s fine. But among people who do care about football in New Jersey, a guy of Christie’s age who roots for the Cowboys is worse than a pariah.
We have no problem understanding his love of Bruce Springsteen, even if he doesn’t share any of The Boss’s values. Most boys from Christie’s generation who grew up in New Jersey idolized Bruce Springsteen. But, equally true, they all idolized Lawrence Taylor.
Let me just remind you of why Jersey Boys idolized LT.
Yes, I know there is a southern part of New Jersey that is flat and filled with scrub brush and follows Philadelphia media and sports. In the north, we consider this portion of our state to be East Ohio. And, in any case, Christie didn’t grow up in the South.
I also know that LT has some pretty significant character issues that became more and more clear as his career progressed and then kind of exploded after his retirement. That’s not the point.
The point is, that guy who wasn’t rooting for the New York Giants in the eighties and early nineties and who insisted on wearing a stupid Dallas Cowboys winter jacket?
That guy had no character. He just liked being a dick.
And he had no taste.
Again, just look:
No one ever played the game like that and no one ever will.
Christie showed there was something seriously wrong with him from the beginning.
