Spartans, prepare for cliche

January 28th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

With all due respect (for the love of God, show the respect!) to the Patriots, is there not a more boring, overused cliche than the association of 300 with your team’s sporting endeavors? Is it not, like, the most obvious thing you could possibly do? There isn’t any other movie footage you can dig up to inspire your fanbase? Has everyone forgotten Remember the Titans?

That rant aside, wasn’t the point of 300 — besides the vague homoeroticism, of course — something about how the righteous undermatched can prevail with proper preparation, skill, and advantageous circumstance? When one thinks of real-life parallels to that movie’s thin plot, one does not exactly picture the Patriots as the scrappy underdogs. More than ever, I’m picturing Bill Belichick with lots of facial jewelry and a creepily deep voice.

{HT: Red Sox Monster}