(S14) PT 2 - Game day

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Nero Alexander starts his gameday by getting out of bed. After he gets out of bed, he takes a shower to make sure he is clean before he gets really sweaty by repeatedly running into other sweaty men. Since Nero is a well-educated man of culture, he follows this up by doing some light reading of Ulysses by James Joyce while eating a hearty breakfast of spaghetti and chicken – gotta get those carbs and protein. Once he’s sufficiently carboloaded, he heads to the stadium. Since he’s now in Texas, he’s traded in his fuel-efficient Prius for a lifted F-150 with mudflaps and TruckNutz. He knows it’s bad for the environment, but with all the hits to the head he’s accruing he figures he won’t be around to see the consequences anyway. When he gets to the stadium, he puts his headphones in and listens to Remember the Name by Fort Minor on repeat. This song pumps him up, but it also reminds him that his success is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, and fifty percent pain – the more pain he feels, the less skill he needs. He hopes that people will remember his name, but deep down he knows that he is just an insignificant speck in the infinite time and space of our universe. Finally, just before kickoff, Nero gets himself ready to sack the quarterback by getting in a couple of good blindside hits on his teammate Cooter Bigsby as he is throwing warmup passes. He credits this part of the routine for his high number of sacks throughout the season and hopes that it isn’t the reason Cooter keeps throwing interceptions.