Maybe DC got off easy
As you know, we have shown that the Resdkins and the District of Columbia are better off since Shuler left. But as a Saints fan pointed out in our comments, New Orleans got a much rawer deal:
"Heath Shuler wore #5. He was drafted #3 overall in the NFL draft. 5+3=8. Shuler started his first game for the Saints on August 31, 1997 (not surprisingly, a loss to the Rams), almost exactly eight (or rewritten, 5+3) years to the day before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. [The conclusion can only be that] Heath Shuler is also responsible for Katrina. The Shuler effect is more powerful than even enlightened ones such as you imagined. It wasn’t Michael Brown or George W. Bush or Kathleen Blanco or Ray Nagin’s fault; it was Heath Shuler’s. And maybe also Ditka’s."
Wow. We never looked at it that way. Maybe we should count our blessings that it isn’t worse …
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At least until recent years, the Democrats in Congress played the Republicans in softball. Perhaps Heath Shuler could contribute to the Democrats as a pitcher–of softballs, not beer. Also consider what might happen if he were elected and returned to Congress every two years, well into the distant future, long after many of us are in eternal rest. After he too gets laid to rest, a Congress grateful for his services could lead the renaming of the Redskins’ football stadium, which will then hold 150,000 fans, to—tara, tara–Heath Shuler Stadium. What a lovely thought before one goes to bed or at any time of day or night.
I have chugged up the Appalachian Trail along the edge of North Carolina’s 11th District. It’s great football country. As an alternate possibility, Mr. Shuler won’t return to Washington. He could stay to teach young ‘uns in mountain towns how and when to pass, and to whom. Perhaps some day, his students could be quarterbacks for the Dallas Cowboys or the Philadelphia Eagles, or the New York Giants, perhaps all three at the same time. Perhaps that could and should be his future. Never lose hope. Yes, never lose hope. However, I’d bet on the nightmare and not the dream.
This just in…. Tallies of early (absentee) voters indicate that 82% of them are casting votes for shuler. It is not wise to make any predictions based on this data, as early voters are an entirely different group of voters than those who go to the polls on the 7th of Nov. This is indeed biased data, as early voters consist largely of folks who will be working full time jobs and trying hard to provide for their families during the weekdays (such as the 7th of Nov.) When election day rolls around, all of the welfare drawing, non-working, disability riders, and fat cat retirees will prod their butts up out of their easy chairs and vote in the general election. That is when we will see the numbers jump for Charles Taylor and other republicans. Shuler was the raw steel that came prepared to turn Washington into a football dynasty. But coach Turner and the fickle Redskin fans failed in doing their part in making it happen. When Shuler hits washington this time, he will have the support from REAL mountain folks, and he will be the political leader that all public officials will attempt to emmulate for decades to come.