http://mmajunkie.com/2015/03/the-fo...-tour-is-more-like-groundhog-day-than-we-knew
Jose Aldo
I can’t be the only one who, upon seeing the latest in a long series of public staredowns between UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor, was reminded of “Groundhog Day.”
Check that look on Aldo’s face as he’s forced to stand just inches from a jawing McGregor – again. Observe the dead-eyed existential despair, the faint, lingering hope for some sudden spasm of violence that might bring this pantomime to an end. Tell me that’s not the same look we see on weatherman Phil Connors’ face just before he drives that groundhog off a cliff.
Funny thing about “Groundhog Day”: it’s actually the last film that Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis, a longtime friend, worked on together. Before that movie, they played integral parts in each others’ lives and careers, from “Caddyshack” to “Ghostbusters.” After? They didn’t even speak.
Why do I mention this now? Just because it might be something for the director of this traveling circus, UFC President Dana White, to consider. If Aldo is still the champion after all this, and if he remembers the tortuous world tour he went on with an antagonistic Irishman, all at the behest of his boss, it might not be the Irishman who he resents in the end....
Jose Aldo
I can’t be the only one who, upon seeing the latest in a long series of public staredowns between UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor, was reminded of “Groundhog Day.”
Check that look on Aldo’s face as he’s forced to stand just inches from a jawing McGregor – again. Observe the dead-eyed existential despair, the faint, lingering hope for some sudden spasm of violence that might bring this pantomime to an end. Tell me that’s not the same look we see on weatherman Phil Connors’ face just before he drives that groundhog off a cliff.
Funny thing about “Groundhog Day”: it’s actually the last film that Bill Murray and director Harold Ramis, a longtime friend, worked on together. Before that movie, they played integral parts in each others’ lives and careers, from “Caddyshack” to “Ghostbusters.” After? They didn’t even speak.
Why do I mention this now? Just because it might be something for the director of this traveling circus, UFC President Dana White, to consider. If Aldo is still the champion after all this, and if he remembers the tortuous world tour he went on with an antagonistic Irishman, all at the behest of his boss, it might not be the Irishman who he resents in the end....
