El Futbol is back

Well, it is. And Dirtbunny has happily been following her favorite Italian teams and players, looking forward to the upcoming Champions League matches, and enjoying the decisive trouncing of Chelsea by Man United (this bodes well for the Bianconeri). Even the latest Inter game went perfectly. Inter did not win (meaning Juve gains on them in the table) but the Big Swede got a goal. She is constantly organizing and reorganizing FC Dirtbunny in her head and, when she is not doing that, she is imagining which of the Azzurri she would be inviting over for dinner. In contrast, she is completely uninterested in the NFL. I can't even tell you who advanced in the playoffs.



What a different world the footballers live in. Full of glory and money and glamour and not full of offices and fluorescent lighting and litigants who think "council" and "counsel" mean the same thing. So sad for Dirtbunny. Her life is so lame. And then it hits me.



In her crappy little world, such as it is, Dirtbunny is Alex Del Piero. It's true! Check it out:

• Dirtbunny and Pinturicchio are both the best at what they are paid to do. They are also the highest-paid at what they do.




• Pinturicchio has a "Del Piero Zone" from which no one can touch him. No one. Dirtbunny has a speciality too: great big case files with tons and tons of facts to sift through. No one can touch her on those cases. Most of our case files are three or four inches thick, but if it comes in eight boxes, who you gonna call? Dirtbunny. That's who.




• Dirtbunny and Pinturicchio both started out as dazzling young phenoms. Now they are the Old Masters.




• Both are tenors of approximately the same height and approximately the same amount of chest hair.




• Both pay someone else to clean the house.




• Both have hair that isn't quite what it used to be when we were younger.




• Both are underappreciated and frequently get dissed and passed over in favor of bigger flash. Pinturicchio is only #22 on Goal.com and was passed over for Azzurri team captain at Euro 2008 in favor of Gigi. Dirtbunny, well, Dirtbunny has had her professional disappointments too, but let's not go there or she may never come back.

• Both are married to otherwise attractive people who sometimes take problematic photographs (the one in the headphones is mine):

• Both of us can do some serious damage if we stomped on someone with our boots.
  
  
  
  

See? We are exactly the same!