DOGS PLAYING FOOTBALL: A TRIUMPH
Yes, yes. Quite.Devin Wordley, Art Critic, gesturing at the wall of a gallery: Yes! Quite! A savage excoriation of the Anglo-Germanic-American bloodlust for competition and cheap, facile artifice without edges; yes, a true jab at the hollow, bloody soul of the worker’s theatre. Note the use of faux-trope here as the artist cloaks themselves in the sheep’s skin in order to come closer for the true kill, working in the cheap mock-airbrush to get his Trojan Horse of an assault on the mores of violent spectacle: a dog’s life shrouded in the illusion of glory, a…
Dude: Dude, that’s my favorite poster!
DW: Um, yes? Poster, you say?
Dude: Yeah. If you get high and look at it, you will lose your shit. There’s no helping it. I mean…they’re dogs, man. And they’re playing football!!!
DW: Yes, I see now. Dogs playing football.
Dude: You gay?
DW: Yes, yes. I am. A gay man in need of a new art review before deadline this afternoon.
You may purchase Dexter’s favorite piece of subversive football art on Amazon for $29.99, marked down from its original $99.99 robbing selling price.
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1
The referee-dog in the background looks more like Dr. Zaius from “Planet of the Apes.”
Comment by FisheriesDawg — March 14, 2008 @ 9:22 am
2
Is that Army running a student body right on Florida?
Comment by Mike and His Four Noble Truths — March 14, 2008 @ 9:22 am
3
Canine Troy Smith just got sacked again.
Comment by Allahver Fist — March 14, 2008 @ 9:29 am
4
Loving the bulldog UF player. How ironic.
Comment by Brian — March 14, 2008 @ 9:29 am
5
#1
I was gonna say Gary Busey’s mugshot, but I like yours better.
Comment by PW — March 14, 2008 @ 9:32 am
6
Dan Mcmanis = Daniel Moore of canine/sports art
Don’t paint any of them red or Alabama will sue your ass off for copyright infringement.
Comment by Mike and His Four Noble Truths — March 14, 2008 @ 9:33 am
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5
Pardon me. I meant Nick Nolte’s mugshot.
Comment by PW — March 14, 2008 @ 9:34 am
8
Anyone else notice that Florida’s got a Yorkshire Terrier playing Safety trying to chase down the Border Collie RB?
Comment by CincySooner — March 14, 2008 @ 9:50 am
9
I wonder if #7 is bankrolling human fighting.
Comment by Out of Conference — March 14, 2008 @ 9:59 am
10
@1 i thought he looked more like a sleestak from “land of the lost.”
Comment by kleph — March 14, 2008 @ 10:08 am
11
#2 - I was kinda thinking Pitt.
Comment by impirius — March 14, 2008 @ 10:09 am
12
Triumph. Ha! I see what you did there.
Comment by Dinknflicka — March 14, 2008 @ 11:10 am
13
I suppose it’s a change from playing poker.
Comment by DC Trojan — March 14, 2008 @ 11:30 am
14
That tailback is hung like Reggie Nelson’s fuckin’ dog.
Comment by NRBQ — March 14, 2008 @ 11:50 am
15
I think the Auburn dog just chop blocked someone’s knee! [do dogs have knees?]
Comment by Sundawg — March 14, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
16
Dogs do have knees, but they can’t look up.
Comment by oc phil — March 14, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
17
#8, that Gator safety looks more like an ungroomed version of my mother-in-law’s schnauzer…mean little fucker…he likes me alot, too.
Comment by sb — March 14, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
18
@ OOC (No. 9):
Nicely done.
Comment by The Song of Hiawatha Francisco — March 14, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
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#5-Both are good, but yours is better.
Comment by Dr. Cruz — March 14, 2008 @ 4:20 pm