The Jay Cutler Effect

Jay Cutler is a quarterback for the Chicago Bears. Previous of this, he attended Vanderbilt University. A practically all white school in Tennessee. It’s really funny to see their basketball team. I dunno, things may have changed since then.

Anyway, Cutler’s had a very spotty NFL career. A lot of QBs with more skill sets and better record don’t seem to get the opportunities he gets. And it’s bizarre how he continues, while others (Tim Tebow) get sandbagged.

If you took a poll of NFL players who they’d like to punch in the face, for no other reason than the way they look, I would guess the majority would vote for Jay Cutler. My theory is that, some people just have that special combination of smug and unaware that makes people just want to clock you. And Cutler has it in spades. I grew u with kids like this. They seem sort of…prep school educated. They’ve had advantages we can only dream of. Nature gave them good looks, power and money. And you know they were raised by nannies. Vanderbilt…the name itself conjures up wealth (Gloria Vanderbilt…say). Speaking of which, Cooper Anderson is related to Gloria Vanderbilt…another guy you want to punch in the face. And it’s got to be in the face. Gut punching doesn’t improve the smugness. Face at least knocks them out. And you KNOW when they come to…the tra-la-la snobbery just continues.

I think actor Armie Hammer suffers from the Jay Cutler effect. He’s been in two bombs “The Lone Ranger” & “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Two t.v. series turned big screen failures. I think it’s him. He is of that Arm & Hammer rich kid family. Perfect teeth, perfect hair, tall, blonde blue-eyed Nordic god. Hate his fucking face. I think working class movie goers can sense it. Hollywood was determined to make him the next thing. Fuck you. He’s got everything, he ‘aint gonna get our money too. So, the village votes him too pretty to be one of us.

That other actor Taylor Kitsch had that too. He went from television “Friday Night Lights” to two big budgeted bombs “Battleship” & “John Carter From Mars.” He was down to earth gritty as a high school football player, but once they wiped off the mud, we saw the face we wanted to punch.

How did someone like Brad Pitt get away with not falling under the Jay Cutler effect? Well, for starters, he was lucky not to fully exist in a social media world. His first major flick was “Thelma & Louise.” He was ripped and young and ape’ing James Dean. Women gushed over him. Guys didn’t give a shit. We were gay if we looked so fuck him. You have to look at what you want to punch. Pitt also took roles that went against his genetics. “Fight Club” was dark and ugly. “12 Monkeys” proved he could do something besides be pretty. To sidestep The Cutler Effect you have to bury yourself in manure. In other words, Jay Cutler would have to resign himself to be second banana to someone with a better record. That’s not gonna happen. So ka-pow! Amazing he’s able to survive Chicago.

You know who really was the pioneer of the Cutler Effect? John Kennedy. He and his brother have that east coast snob look. People even named their reign Camelot. As if he were King Arthur. But to a certain group, his face just had that effect. People just wanted to punch it in. I think it’s like…they got what they want, when they wanted, how they wanted. And then passed it off like they were one of us. There’s a reason both of the Kennedy guys were knocked off. I think it was their stupid faces.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but why the country would want to punch you in the face