"The Life of Riley" has long been a synonym for luck and luxury, and for a while, there was a comic radio show with that title. But the life of Reilly on the football field has been miserable. According to sports commentators and their backups keeping tabs, the BC Lions quarterback has endured something between eighty and one hundred pressures (i.e., tackle rushes) and twenty sacks (ouch!) in the first five games of the season. Seeing Reilly pull himself up out of one more 800 pound pile, you know he is thinking of a Duke Ellington number: "What Am I Here For?"
And what, indeed? How could his coach send him back in for the last ninety seconds of a game that was clearly lost to be battered once more? Or maybe Reilly wanted to go back. There's no business like show business.
We hope the rest of the season brings a better life for Reilly.
--Slap Maxwell.
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