Dog Show

A few weeks back, the Westminster Dog Show was held. Don't think Jim Rome didn't have a few words to say about it:

What’s better than a great comeback story in sports? Who doesn’t love a once great, icon, turning back the clock one last time, for one final run at glory?! Who didn’t get with Jack Nicklaus during his charge at Augusta in ‘86 when he won the Masters at 46?! Or Jimmy Connors who brawled his way to the U.S. Open semi-finals in ‘91 when he was 39?! Legendary comebacks by iconic figures!

And here’s another one to add to the list. Stump, a 10 year old Sussex Spaniel, coming out of retirement to win the “Best in Show” award at the Westminster Dog Show. How a dog retires from being a “dog”, I have no idea… but who will ever forget Stump having to shut in down in his prime back in ‘04 because of mysterious illness. I know I won’t! Nor, will the other “freaks” parading their “surrogate children” around in a circle all day long.

Jim Brown and Barry Sanders couldn’t believe Stump walked away when he did! Then, the haters piled on…they said there was no way a ten year old could come out of a retirement and win this event. That there was way too much dog rust to knock off! That Stump would be this generation’s Willie Mays stumbling around in center field for the Mets or Johnny Unitas getting “hammered in the pocket” with the Chargers….whatever!

Never doubt the heart of a champion. Just as Sugar Ray Leonard shocked the world back in ‘87 by coming out of retirement to beat Marvin Hagler, so did Stump! “Go time, baby!” And no one knows it better than Stump the dog. Not only did he win, but he
“punked” the Scottish Deerhound, “Tiger Woods.” Obviously, that dog doesn’t have the closing gear of his human namesake!

I wonder if anyone else named their dogs Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson…if they just start whimpering when the “Eldrick” pooch shows up? Stump the dog. “Man!”