Word: underdogs
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Maybe you don't buy the off-court turnaround, but it's hard not to pull for a guy who is an underdog every time he laces 'em up. Iverson spends his nights jackknifing to the hoop, a tiny salmon challenging grizzlies twice his weight. By season's end, he looks like a man made of adhesive tape. Yet he won't miss games and hates resting so much that coach Brown knows, even in a blowout, it's easier just to leave the kid in. The rest of the NBA wishes he would show a little mercy...
...this year he dropped the modest, underdog thing. Even the victim stuff had expired: despite unveiling his wobbly French, he was booed by the French on the eve of the race for kicking a Frenchman off his team--though, really, what wouldn't the French boo if it's in their country and isn't French? Then, like a true American, he went on to posterize--just like Jordan did to Ewing--Jan Ullrich...
...Leiber and Stoller weren?t responsible for the Drifters? indenture, they also didn?t bother to force its change. And though the writer-producers? early work had an underdog acerbity, their determination to produce hit after Drifters hit made them cautious with other writers? songs. Mann and Weil had written "Only in America" as a scathing denunciation of civil inequity: "Only in America/ Land of opportunity/ Do they save a seat in the back of the bus just for me." Leiber and Stoller rewrote the lyric as a straightforward, Horatio Alger anthem. The meaning was lost; worse, it was twisted...
...enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal existence and rooted like mad for “Dem Bums” to outshine their pretentious Manhattan neighbors. When the team left, Brooklyn’s spirit of resistance perished...
...insufferable nebbish. An underdog so far under, so beset with frailties, neuroses and beta-male tics he made it difficult to root for him on-screen, even on those rare occasions when he got the girl or achieved some other cinematic redemption...