Have you ever been at a party and your wife, girlfriend or idiot-buddy says, “Hey man, tell everybody that joke you told me the other day!”
Or a friend introduces you to a stranger, saying, “This is that guy I told you about who was so funny!”
Now you have to be funny. Only professional comedians can be funny under pressure.
That’s a wee taste of what Boo Weekley is going through this week.
How many stories have you seen, both from here in the U.S. and abroad, hailing Weekley as the social savior of that tense, uptight, Republican bunch of mopes otherwise known as the U.S. Ryder Cup team?
If you do a Boo-Google, that is almost exclusively what you come up with, from his hometown paper to Bangkok.
Be funny, Boo, be funny. Damn it, Boo. Be funny!
Now, Weekley may not feel the pressure to act the fool because he comes by it naturally. I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense. He’s a friendly, down-to-earth, unsophisticated guy from the Florida Panhandle who can’t help but make people laugh and – damn it, now I’m doing it!
Anyway, my point is, I hope Weekley can loosen these guys up by just being himself, without feeling the pressure to force someone to laugh. There is nothing as unfunny as that.
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§ Kiel Christianson®
said on : 09/18/08 @ 13:38
As long as Zinger doesn't rent an orangutan and tell Weekley to fight it to raise morale... -
§ Shanks® said on : 09/18/08 @ 14:00
Woody Austin got a little too much of that crap last year at the President's Cup too.
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§ Kiel Christianson said on : 09/21/08 @ 22:14
Turns out, Boo can act the fool and strike the ball at the same time!
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§ Jacko said on : 09/22/08 @ 00:18
Wow!! How can you be pissed that the Americans won the Ryder cup? Oh never mind, your'e a democrat. Hmm! What bothered you the most? All the American flags or the people waving them? I'll bet most everyone reading your blog would rather spend time with the (as you put it) "uptight, Republican bunch of mopes otherwise known as the U.S. Ryder Cup team" than an unpatriotic whiner such as yourself.
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§ BV said on : 09/25/08 @ 13:00
Got to give 'Jacko' credit for seeing thru Timmie Mac's BS. If it weren't for Republicans you wouldn't freaking HAVE golf courses! Communistic Democrats would turn them all into collective farms for the pooor! ;)
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§ Chauncey said on : 09/30/08 @ 13:56
There is no pressure for Boo to act the fool. He is one. Anyone who chews tobacco and spits it on a golf course is a lame brained, ill-bred, first class fool.
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