Do you remember Leon? He was the football player in those Budweiser commercials that ran several years ago. The running joke in the commercials was that Leon worried only about what was good for Leon, not what was good for the team. His catch phrase was "Leon can't do everything."
Out of all the Leon commercials, my favorite was the one where he's asked to comment on whether his 4 fumbles in a single game might have contributed to the team's devastating defeat. Leon gestures over his shoulder to his teammates in the locker room and responds "Not if one of those other guys would have jumped on the ball." The bemused reporter says "I guess there's no 'I' in team." Leon comes right back at him with "Well, there ain't no 'We' either."
I'd forgotten about Leon until this evening. That's when I realized that he had died and come back as Giselle Bundchen. You know Giselle, right? She's married to my favorite New England Patriot, Tom Brady.
After watching her man (hey, that's what Al Michaels called him last night) get called for intentional grounding in the end zone early in the game, costing his team two points, and then just miss several open receivers late in the game, Giselle was not happy. So, she called on her inner Leon to assess what went wrong for the Patriots. While leaving the stadium, she was captured on tape spouting the following nugget: "My husband can not $#%@!&# throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times."
Giselle, you are the best. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can't wait to see the reaction you get the next time you're seen at Gillette Stadium. Should be fun.