We’ve been here several times before, and the advice still has not changed. When talking about sports, it’s best to avoid all references to wars and world tragedies. Why is that? Because even though sports are jobs for many people, they’re still mainly played for entertainment and amusement. Someone should remind Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell of that fact.
During an appearance on Eagles Postgame Live on CSN, Rendell got carried away when talking about the lack of passion from the Eagles and their fans.
“Somebody’s got to get angry, somebody’s got to make a big hit, and then turn to everybody else and say ‘come on.’ When you’re taking a hill,” Rendell said, “someone looks back and says “let’s go.” On Flight 93, that guy said, it will live in immortality, ‘let’s roll.’ Somebody’s got to say that and it looked like there’s just no fire out there from the fans’ standpoint.”
Oof. Rendell, we know you love your Eagles, but that’s not a comparison you want to make. Making a play on a football field has very few, if any, parallels to heroes storming the cockpit of a plane that was hijacked by terrorists. Sometimes you just have to reign in that passion to avoid making such poorly conceived analogies.
Here’s the audio of the fired-up Rendell’s remarks, courtesy of Crossing Broad:
And now let’s turn it over to Rashard Mendenhall for his rebuttal …
