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October 2, 2008, my football heroes and a quick team huddleBy Nick, Section News
The McCain campaign is abandoning Michigan.
That sucks. Hard. Now let me tell you a quick story. On January 11, 1987 the Denver Broncos looked just about finished. Their young gunslinger of a quarterback had led them to the AFC Championship game for the first time in decades. The upstarts were playing the powerful Cleveland Browns and an imposing gunslinger of their own, Bernie Kosar. Down 20 to 13 with 5:32 to play the Broncos took the kickoff from their rival... and muffed it. Any hope of a good return and decent field position disappeared in one of the ugliest special teams plays in NFL history. That left a fourth-year quarterback in the biggest position of his life with 98 yards to drive and a touchdown to gain just to force overtime. Nothing less than the SuperBowl hung in the balance. Fans of the NFL know what happened next. It's lore. It's magic. It's the stuff of legends. It's what happens when you give 60 minutes on the field... not 54:28. Apparently the McCain campaign doesn't boast a single student of the National Football League. Word out of Washington, D.C. is that they're pulling up their stakes here in Michigan. They're yanking the plug. They're shutting her down. There's time left on the clock and we're only down a single score... and yeah, the way the polls have been trending the last week you can argue we've muffed the kick-off. But "The Drive" is the reason coaches everywhere preach "sixty minutes." What exactly does "pulling out" imply? You name it. Speaking on condition of anonymity, several sources within the campaign confirm that staff, media, tv and mail are all being yanked. The spicket of yard signs and bumper stickers is being cut-off. While today we boast several dozen fully operational "victory centers" that number will immediately dwindle to less than ten. The moves are especially disappointing given Senator McCain's fantastic showings in previous Michigan elections and the heavy Wolverine State influence in the campaign's senior leadership. Long-time Republican National Committeeman Chuck Yob is a huge McCain backer and his son, John, is the national Deputy Political Director. Apparently their influence wasn't enough to overcome a recent bout of rough polling. ALL of that said, I don't very much feel like quitting. There are two ways we can react individually... we can pack up ourselves and reign it in or we can fight and scrap and work for the Senator like we've never worked before. We can talk to our friends. Call our neighbors. Drop off yard signs. Participate in phone banks at our County GOP headquarters. And there are local races that matter in ways we can't even calculate. Nevermind the Presidential race... heck, nevermind the state House. We've got work to do to reelect Tim Walberg and Joe Knollenberg, a pair of incumbents who kick butt and take names and are going up against a group of the most liberal Democratic challengers the state's ever seen, including Dr. Death and the deciding vote on last year's $1.5 BILLION tax hike, Mark Schauer. We've got a Supreme Court to defend in Cliff Taylor. We've got local races that'll pave the way for the next generation of candidates. The stakes couldn't be higher. And we've still got a Presidential battle to wage. We've got a little less than 5 weeks to get this thing done. There's time on the clock. If John Elway tought me anything, it's to play for a full 60 minutes and to leave it all out on the field. Now let's get out of this huddle and shock the world.
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