Growing up almost everyone had someone in sports to relate to, little boys of all kinds have Larry Bird and Michael Jordan to look up to...they could see themselves in these men. For the dorky kids there was Chi Chi Rodriguez, for the cool kids there was Sammy Sosa, but what about the Jewish kids? Who did we have to look up to?
The girls we given some hope with Kerri Strug, but who else was there? Bad news for the boys, they didn't want to wear a leotard when they grew up, but at least we had something. Something real, something well known, but the boys had nothing of real substance!
Sure we had many sports casters to look up to, but we didn't want to be on the side-lines, we wanted to be in the action. Plus none of us wanted to grow up to become a cross dresser who bit people, that just wasn't the type of sports exposure we were all going for.
Boys wanted something real like Kerri Strug, they wanted a Michael Jordan-Goldberg, someone who got air and fasted on Yom Kippur. Someone who had a shoe deal and a bar mitzvah! Well, look no further boys of yesterday and today, the Jets have given us all hope that Jews CAN be football players...with their mom's permission of course!
(oh and speaking of sports, why not try out the BethandTaxes basketball jersey?)
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