Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Keefe Robinsonis a former professional American football player who played free safety. He played collegiately at Colgate University. In his 16-year NFL career, Robinson played for the Seattle Seahawks from 1985 to 1995, the Green Bay Packers from 1996 to 1997, Atlanta Falcons from 1998 to 1999, and Carolina Panthers in 2000. He won Super Bowl XXXI with the Packers over the New England Patriots...
believe fight flash saw seems television
It just seems so odd, so surreal. I'm still like, 'I don't believe it.' When I saw it flash on the television -- 1961 to 2004 -- I was just like, 'I'm not going to try to fight back any more tears. I'm just going to cry.
coach forgot high hopes super won
We had high hopes going into that year, we really did. We had a coach who had won the Super Bowl. But they forgot he would need a little talent.
interested nobody
Nobody is interested in your contrition. They are only interested in your admission.
concerned defense guess losers motivate ranked
They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.
hand saw
They saw that there was no other hand in this story.
across atmosphere beijing bush conference crushing dark economic escape exit george gilded hanging image inevitably leaves left lily locked mess metaphors microphone national news office pair poisoned political president pulls rest rising sign strides three trapped trying visual war weary
As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.