Jim Kelly for Congress?
Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly is reportedly considering a run for Congress as a Republican.
Let's see: he can serve in the House for four years, run for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in 2012, win in a stunning upset, make a national name for himself, and then in 2016, when President Obama is termed out...
...can you say Kelly-Norwood '16?
You may scoff, but the ticket has some major built-in political advantages. First of all, they'd win the normally Democratic state of New York in a landslide, by uniting nostalgic Bills fans and grateful Giants fans. And secondly, they'd have no problems motivating the conservative base. After all, nobody knows how to aim for the right like Scott Norwood! It'd be a vast wide-right wing conspiracy!
:P
(Hat tip: Hugging Harold Reynolds. To all my Buffalo readers, including my wife, I apologize. I couldn't resist.)
Well, Heath Shuler is in Congress, and he never even darkened the door of the Super Bowl, so what the heck.
I saw the wide right angle coming before I read it. Nice.
Posted by: Jay Johnson | Mar 25, 2008 5:59:28 PM
As the biggest Bills fan that most likely reads this blog can we keep the jokes about wide right to a minimum please, thats the last thing I need to be reminded of, but the Jim Kelly for congress would be great, even as a democrat I would vote for him. Also this would give him more leverage to keep the Bills in Buffalo. Which is the most important thing in my life.
Posted by: fezafou | Mar 25, 2008 6:19:21 PM
Guaranteed he runs 4 times and loses them all.
Posted by: | Mar 25, 2008 6:34:48 PM
This will only work if he promises to allow Frank Reich to serve the second half of his term and bail him out of the huge mess he made in the first half.
Posted by: JT | Mar 25, 2008 6:46:43 PM
JT, I get what your trying to say and joke about and all. But allow me to correct you on a simple fact, in the "Comeback Game" against the Houston Oilers in 1993(which I happily watched today on the NFL network, and made my day) Jim Kelly was injured before the game and didnt play in it at all, so it wasnt his mess, Frank Reich played the entire game, and the mess was caused by Buffalo's terrible play on defense in the first half, and the rest is history.
Posted by: fezafou | Mar 25, 2008 7:07:47 PM
Good thing Kelly's running as a Republican so his deceased child who died of Globoid-Cell Leukodystrophy at the age of eight won't be a target.
Posted by: | Mar 25, 2008 7:46:24 PM
Well, he's be better than Clinton. And he'd keep up my favorite thing from Mario Cuomo of denying that the Giants or Jets are New York teams.
Posted by: Mike's brother Matt | Mar 25, 2008 9:53:55 PM
I have no hard feelings over the mention of Norwood. You jerk.
Posted by: Casey | Mar 26, 2008 12:10:20 AM
The last Super Bowl the Bills were in was 15 years ago...we moved on from mullets and Zubaz; we can make the jump from Super Bowl jokes too. Put away the Ace of Base CD kids, it's 2008.
Posted by: Jimi | Mar 28, 2008 1:25:21 PM