Bumping this thread since the new season is well underway and since my most recent Gruden parody fell victim to being one of the last posts on a page before a new one began...
Monday Night Showdown at the OK Jerral
Gruden: Well, I'll tell ya Mike, this game tonight should be one heck of a shootout because we've got two gunslingers here about to give us a show, DEEP DOWN IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!!! This kid Jay Cutler, he's Clint Eastwood. He's tough, he's got an attitude, and he even talks to a chair in the locker room before every game. He's just like Clint in The Outlaw Josie and the Pussycats. When you shoot him, he just gets right back up, pulls the stove lid out from under his poncho and kicks the living crap out of Mad Dog Tannen. He doesn't give up, he just gets MAD. He gets ANGRY. He looks you deep in the eyes and says, "YOU'VE GOT TO ASK YOURSELF ONE QUESTION: 'DO I FEEL LUCKY?' WELL, DO YA, PUNK? SWEAR TO MEEE!!! MAMA'S NOT THE LAW! I'M THE LAW!!!!"
Tirico: Umm, actually John, I think you're getting your references mixed up...
Gruden: I'll tell ya, this kid Cutler just never gives up and refuses to go down! He's had to deal with some terrible O-Line play over the years and he still just gets back up, grits his teeth, fires his Colt .45 and doesn't complain, EVER. Just look at his performance in the NFC Championship Game a few years back. The Bears might have lost that game, but Cutler fought 'til the bitter end in that one!
Tirico: Well, actually John, he...
Gruden: AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU'VE GOT TONY ROMO, AND HE'S JOHN WAYNE! There's no quarterback who is better at drawing down at high noon. He's just like John Wayne in Sands of Iwo Genghis, wearing an eyepatch and taking down the man who shot Liberty Valance. He'll shoot you down, strut his manly glutes around town and let the good people know that justice has arrived and it's safe to walk the streets again. We mustn't forget that it was only last year that Tony Romo broke 17 ribs, tore his Achilles and suffered a gunshot wound to his left knee and still came back to beat the 49ers, who were unquestionably the best team in the league last year. I'll tell ya, Mike, that defense is the epitome of toughness. It's almost like the 85 Bears and the Steel Curtain got drunk one night and the Niners defense was the result of their copulation. But Romo stood tall in the pocket and delivered. The Cowboys can't win without John Wayne Romo... they're nothing when he's not on the field.
I'll tell ya Mike, I can't wait until Eastwood and Wayne draw down on each other tonight and fire off those six shooters! It's going to be an old fashioned Wild West shootout that would make Wyatt Wingfoot and Doc Hollywood proud. RIGHT HERE IN THE HEART OF TEXAS! YEEEEEEEEEEHAAWWWWWWWW!!!!
Tirico:... Well, it's time to take a break. But when we come back, Bears/Cowboys. F*** my life.