The Curious Case of Jaxon Dart: How a Quarterback’s Transfer Portal Odyssey Became a Global Metaphor for Our Times By L. Marlowe, International Desk, Dave’s Locker Somewhere between the Sea of Japan and the Gulf of Mexico, the name Jaxon Dart ping-pongs across encrypted group chats, offshore betting sites, and late-night sports bars that smell…
Tyrod Taylor and the Beautiful, Doomed Art of Being Useful Everywhere If you squint hard enough from the upper deck of any stadium on any continent, Tyrod Taylor looks less like a quarterback and more like a diplomatic attaché—one whose briefcase happens to be a football and whose passport stamps outnumber the interceptions on his…
Desmond Ridder and the Global Art of Failing Upward by our man in the cheap seats, somewhere over the Pacific In the grand tapestry of human ambition, where hedge-fund bros in Singapore toast their latest SPAC disaster and Parisian art students auction invisible NFTs to oligarchs, Desmond Ridder’s ascent to the Atlanta Falcons’ QB1 throne…
From Brussels boardrooms to Mumbai call-centres, Carson Wentz has become the planet’s most unlikely case study in the economics of disappointment. While the quarterback has never thrown a pass on any pitch outside North America, his career arc now features in PowerPoint decks from Singapore hedge funds to Lagos fintech incubators as a tidy illustration…
Marcus Mariota, erstwhile savior of the Tennessee Titans and current itinerant quarterback, is the rare American football export who can make the rest of the planet shrug in unison. While the NFL busies itself inflating viewership numbers in London pubs and Munich beer halls, Mariota has become a walking metaphor for globalization’s limits: a Samoan-Hawaiian,…
Mac Jones and the Export of American Quarterbacking: A Tragicomedy in Three Acts By Our Man in Exile, Somewhere Over Greenland Act I – The Transatlantic Pipeline When the New England Patriots drafted Mac Jones 15th overall in 2021, the moment did not, strictly speaking, make the front page of Le Monde or spark a…
Detroit, Michigan – In a city that once symbolised the industrial engine of the West and now mostly symbolises how engines seize when neglected for six decades, the Detroit Lions have unveiled yet another quarterback. The announcement landed on foreign wire services somewhere between the latest Sudan evacuation and the revelation that a Swiss banker…
Zach Calzada, Quarterback Without Portfolio, Drifts into the Geopolitical Void ————————————————————————– If you squint at a world map hard enough, you can almost see the faint contrails of Zach Calzada’s career arcing above the usual fly-over states like a rogue weather balloon—visible, vaguely ominous, and ultimately nobody’s responsibility. Once a celebrated three-star from Georgia via…
