Yes, gentlemen, give me a lecture on serious and intelligent. I'll be back.
And, Tee, you don't know much about the American (administration) psyche if a sports metaphor (especially a football metaphor) is viewed as inapt. Indeed, a celebrated "novel" of the Vietnam era by Norman Mailer, "Why Are We in Vietnam," employed an extendded metaphor, to considerable effect, of war as an extension of our indigenous hunting culture, et al.