I don’t find myself saying that too often these days, since as we’ve spiraled deeper and deeper into the triplet Black Holes of globalism, futility, and collapse the phrase becomes less of a truism and more empty bluster—asthmatic rah-rah from a spirit squad blind to the fact that the game is over, their side was whipped like a redheaded stepchild, and the home-team fans have long since filed out of the stadium in dejection and defeat, going home to console themselves into stupefaction with strong drink.
In this instance, though, the slogan is most apt, and no two ways about it.
Everything about this video is incredible. A stray cat is hanging for dear life so some Miami students get underneath with an American flag and the crowd reaction when they safely catch this cat is the stuff of legends.
(You need to have the volume on)
pic.twitter.com/vGrCdARLNz— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 12, 2021
Another angle. As he says, note the delighted roar of the crowd for AmeriCat’s amazing reprieve:
dude made catch of the year then held the cat up like f’in Simba. what a legend pic.twitter.com/u4Euc1MMqd
— ryan (@OTCeIIy) September 11, 2021
Like a fuckin’ BOSS, baby! As Tom Cruise so memorably said:
Beautiful is precisely what it was. Granted that YMMV, as always, I don’t think “legend” is too strong a word, myself.
Credit to the people on the lower deck for doing something.
Discredit to the people on the upper deck for just standing and looking. Someone could have pulled off his shirt, lay down and stuck his arm through the rail, and let the cat grab onto the shirt.
In the second vid, it looks like there were a few of ’em trying to reach over the rail for the cat, but it was too big a stretch. But hey, all’s well that ends well.