When your were a kid there was no more exciting and stressful time than the end of fall and the beginning of winter. You would flip through the toy section of the Sears Catalog and put big stars by the items you wanted for Christmas. After putting a million stars next to the three or four Transformers you were dying to get your hands on, you had to wait till December 25th to see if you got them. The wait was often unbearable.
Sometimes, you would open the box and get exactly the one you wanted, and the euphoria was palpable. However, sometimes, you would open the box and get a GoBot. Sure they were both cars, trucks, planes, etc that changed into robots, but Transformers were boss and GoBots just weren't sexy.
That's what happened in DC yesterday.
After weeks of waiting and circling the names of Transformer coaches we wanted, Skins fans went to bed last night knowing we got a GoBot. Sure, Jim Zorn is a capable football coach, and was quite a good player back in the day. But, he's not the type of coach we were thinking of. Don't get me wrong, no one wanted to open the sweater from Grandma aka Jim Fassel, but we thought there were other pretty good options out there. Who knows, if we had been given time to consider Zorn as a candidate for the head job maybe we would have been into it, but we never saw this coming.
Just like I never saw those GoBots coming back in '84.
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