The Sports Dungeon: A Tale

Abishai100

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This armchair-warrior 'pro-capitalism vignette' was inspired by the sports-marketing inquiry films Jerry Maguire and Blue Chips.


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Johns Hopkins and North Carolina had created a dangerous rivalry in men's collegiate lacrosse, and an idealistic Internet-cartoonist and self-proclaimed Internet-blogging 'democracy-vigilante' named Ajay Satan who believed he could use sarcastic/colorful stick-figure 'low-brow doodles' to counter the image of cutthroat competitiveness in sports (and sports-marketing). Ajay wanted to model himself after the office-space comedy sitcom brainiac Drew Carey. His 'doodles' such as one of Hobgoblin (Marvel Comics) appealed to youngsters interested in harmless capitalism-Utopianism chatter.

News spread like fire, and Bernie Kosar (QB of the Cleveland Browns in the 1980s) talked to ESPN analyst Matt Leinart (the QB of the stand-out USC team in the new millennium and NFL QB under Kurt Warner) about playing him and a movie about the Browns, so as to stir up favor for pro-NFL fanfare-culture uplifting marketing in sports-media. Leinart asked Kosar why he thought the USC dude should try his hand at theater, and Kosar explained, "I want a sports-personality (relatively undeified) to appear in a movie, since too many athletes make silly cameos or unsatisfying acting performances (e.g., Shaq); you got the ambition in your eyes!"

Leinart liked that Kosar believed in him and decided to introduce lines in the screenplay for the film directed by Oliver Stone about how youngsters were lured into Browns lure in the late 1980s with the very fun Nintendo game Tecmo Bowl (NFL). Leinart and Stone developed a terrific bond, and the two would go on to make three more films about sports-culture, making Stone's tally in that genre 4-4 (beginning with Any Given Sunday)! Leinart became an American god, and his rivals (you know, those gold-headed ones at Notre Dame) started noticing how team-reputations were 'malleable' in the media metropolis.

However, the marketing went overboard and became commercialized, and soon a Nintendo Tecmo Bowl prodigy named Ethan House (from the Netherlands), who was now 20-something, decided to become an Internet-blogging 'terrorism-propaganda advocate.' House gave himself the Internet-alias/avatar "Mad Cat" and geared his blogs/posts toward ideas regarding the mystical enigmas associated with 'Internet-graffiti.' Mad Cat believed that sports-marketing in an overt pro-capitalism society/culture would simply create a condition of rampant personality-speculations. When Ajay Satan heard of this 'underground gossip,' he joined in on the action and retorted the anti-capitalism chatter with the punk-youth toned message, "Christ can digitize You!"

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