Life and Death of LT... Tragedy or Comedy?

After last weeks game against the Giants, it is becoming abundantly clear that LT's career is waning. As much as I want to wax poetic about the uncompromisable greatness of my personal hero, even I have to admit the LT is a shell of what he once was. Whether you want to blame it on the play calling, the offensive line play, or that LT is past his prime; the production is simply missing. LaDainian Tomlinson will undoubtedly go down as one of the top ten running backs in NFL history. Where exactly he will end up in the pantheon of the game's greatest rushers is yet to be seen. While he is well positioned in the lists of personal stats and accomplishments, he has never won a championships nor does he have any redeeming/memorable playoff moments. Does this lack of postseason success mean that LT's career will end up as a tragedy? To even begin to answer this, one must first contrast the differences between the heroes in a tragedy and a comedy.

The tragic hero is one who is noble and titanic in size and skill. This hero ultimately has one tragic flaw and this flaw lends itself to alienation and isolation. The comedic hero is likeable but has very visible limitations. Ultimately there is a happy ending in the comedy.

While we won't know what happens until LT officially takes off the cleats, I believe that the answer to this tragedy/comedy question will be inexorably tied to this season. If LT does not win a championship this season, I don't think he will ever get another shot. Even if he plays past this season, he will only be an afterthought and a second option on an offense that does not go through him. This may even be for a team other than the chargers. Seeing LT in any other color besides powder blue may be even more tragic than him never winning a championship

The snows on Kilimanjaro are melting because of Global Warming... Hemingway is turning over in his grave.

In an article recently posted on science daily, scientists are predicting that the ice fields on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania should be completely melted within two decades. Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story entitled "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in which the narrator, while on safari in Africa, realizes that he is about to die due to an injured leg. One of the main themes of the short story is about death and how it is imminently present. Who knew global warming could be so poetic?




http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102171209.htm

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