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This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.
(Author’s Note: This week’s ceviche game story will run next week. It’s currently buried under snow and ice.)
You know what we hate the most about Al-Qaeda?
If an alien life force attacked Earth, and all of the people of the world banded together to fight for our planet, those Al-Qaeda fucks would probably be undermining everything, with their futile attacks.
We are thinking about the end of the world as we ponder what the Seahawks will be like in the coming years without Mike Holmgren. As bad as things have been around here, we kind of agree with Seattle’s sports grandpa Steve Kelley that things can only get better.
The Mariners and Huskies are starting fresh, and Husky basketball has a great deal of promise. However, we look at the aging Seahawks and what has happened to our teams once a successful head coach has moved on (Lou Piniella, George Karl).
Only the Huskies were able to continue to win after Don James left. Which is funny, because those same people who can’t let go of James have clung on to Holmgren’s replacement, Jim Mora Jr., as the only person who can save Husky football.
Look, we grew up with a great deal of affection for Don James. The man is a god, and we can’t wait for the statue, however, to paraphrase the guy sitting near us at Husky Stadium when James’ image on the diamond vision received a lusty ovation, "Let it go, it’s been 17 years."
Holding on to something for years is the easy way to go. For years we held on to two things, our ability to make fantastic segues and the only meal we could ever really cook, pasta. Boil some water, put the pasta in, go into other room, sob uncontrollably, return, drain water, open bottle of sauce, and eat.
Italian food has been made popular worldwide by the Olive Garden and cafeteria pizza, everyone loves it, and since the Seahawks are playing the Jets, it seemed like a perfect time to return to our cooking roots.
Thanks to movies and TV, everyone knows that the New York/Northern New Jersey area is teeming with Italian Mafioso types, along with WASPy straight edge FBI agents who sit in vans and throw their headsets on the ground when something goes wrong.
The original plan was to make pasta from scratch with Seattlest Rachael, however, one too many visits to her apartment has placed us in a little bit of trouble with Johnny Law, so our lawyers think it’s best if we just reschedule.
To honor the strong Italian-American heritage, and those of all ethinc backgrounds, throughout J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets Country, we will be making manicotti. Long pasta tubes filled with meat, vegetables, and spices, covered with cheese and tomato sauce.
It still requires us to boil pasta, however, we’ll be making the sauce from scratch, and we still have to prepare the stuff to put in the manicotti. We also have to stuff it, so there a lot of things that could cause us to throw down our headsets.
We'll report back next week, and if you think you're so fucking great why not try and make the stuff as well. Then we can all compare notes as our fathers stare at us disapprovingly.
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