Just Do Things™

I guess  Jarod’s blond hair was not a Sunday coloring glitch. Has any football coach, fictitious or real, engendered less respect than Bull? A real coach would put in the time to help his new QB (especially one that’s never played the game) master the playbook. Instead, Bull offhandedly asks Jarod is he’s “been absorbing the game plan.” Like, by osmosis? Jarod trudges on by, offering a cryptic reply over his shoulder, while his coach gazes impassively.

17 thoughts on “Just Do Things™”

  1. Mrs. B: “So Tom, have a game plan for the rest of the year’s stories yet?”

    Mr. B: “I’m not so good with stories. I just draw things.”

    I think I get it. He does these a year in advance, right? Around a year ago, that “Johnny Football” character was lighting up the college football world. A few craft beers on a crisp late September Saturday afternoon, a Texas A&M game on in the background…and “Jarod Posey” was hatched. He’s a no-good rebel who flies by the seat of his pants. He runs on sheer instinct, attitude and cigarettes, no need for “game plans” for Jarod. Which, considering who his coach is, seems like a very wise approach.

  2. Trick question, Jarod — There is no game plan. Except for most of the guys running around the field scared, of course, which I’m not positive they planned in advance (Although, if they did, then Bull’s a more skillful coach than I thought possible).

  7. Is someone, hopefully John Darling’s daughter whose father, John Darling was murdered, making a Doco about all of this drama? ‘Cause if there was ever a Doco about the Scapegoats that needed to be told, that woman, the daughter of John Darling who was murdered, could do it!

  8. Tom Batiuk’s hatred of athletics and athletes makes him incapable of coming up with interesting characters here. I mean, Les DSH, Becky and Dinkle are eminently hateable, but Bull is just a boring, boring character.

  10. J-Rod becomes a hero at the high school. His lack of plans become better plans than planned plans.

    Mary and Crankshaft soon become an item.

  11. Absorbing: Bull absorbs pizza and dispenses crap!
    Plans: obviously there ain’t one!
    Just Do: wisdom of the ancient Jedi. I’ve had a sneaky suspicion about this cat. Picture him in a brown robe with a light saber. Remind you of anyone?

  12. So J-Rod is going to be a football savant or something? With no knowledge of the playbook or any support from his offensive line, he’s going to single-handedly lead the Scapegoats to the playdowns and save Bull’s career.

  13. Westview is such backwater of football that anybody can lead the offense after one scrimmage. So it is uniquely unlike any other town in the U.S.

  14. Epicus D’s “Super Bowl Shuffle” reference yesterday seems all the more apt today. Just like the Punky QB known as McMahon, when the PFunky QB known as Ja-Rod hits the turf, he’s got no plan.

    This “Super Bowl Shuffle” rip-off may be more appropriate for the Scapegoats, though.

  15. It’s funny because the fat 10th-grader is dressed as a coach, whilst Edward R. Murrow has bleached his hair and dressed up in a Westview High football uniform.

  16. In most normal sports drama kinds of things, the coach has put in his new star player, only to find he is having problems with the other players. Only in the case of Bull, if his team really is as terrible as he (and virtually everyone else) has been making it seem, then how would he know if his quarterback was successful or not? Even though the quarterback is getting constantly sacked, it could well be that this is a better performance than the team was doing before. Jarod may not be losing as many yards when he is sacked versus the previous quarterback.

  17. Bull: “So, Jarod…um…you good?”

    Jarod: “If being forced into playing a sport I despise by a teacher who only makes it too obvious he cares nothing about me, verbally abused by my new team mates, and beaten bloody by ‘sportos’ is good, then “yes”, yes I am EFFIN’ WONDERFUL.”

    Bull: “Oh, good.”

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