Garfield by Jim Davis for March 12, 2024

A harsh way of saying, “You didn’t make the team.”

I completely lost interest in football in a high school gym class when caught a football and was immediately tackled by about half a ton of dumb jocks,

Well, he had the dummy part down.

Well that explains it all!! Doesn’t it??

You deserved it you worthless man.

That happened to Harold Lloyd’s character in “The Freshman”.

I wonder how Liz tackles this dummy?

At least Jon made the practice team. Good consolation price.

All the concussions and none of the glory

Jon Arbuckle: Tackling dummy.

Tackling dummy…excellent training for dealing with Garfield…

“SAY NO MORE”

(imagines a different version of this part of this cartoon)

YOU COULD STOP NOW

My local paper really screwed up. Today’s strip was in German.

A one way street of use and abuse is a vocation, not a earning markets position for Arbuckle to-tackle.

He didn’t have Liz as a cheerleader.

Then are some of us, who were so bad at playing sports we weren’t even picked for That!

Water boys had their own practice squad?

So was the brain damage already done, or does he have grounds for a lawsuit?

Behold for the prince of Crash Test Dummies.

I never had any real knack for football, American style, that is. Though I had the size, I didn’t have the skill. I played on the line against a much smaller guy. He decked me so easily. He knew what he was doing. Now, soccer, or the other version of football, that was a different matter. I played right back and left wing and midfield. And, I was pretty good.

A great reminder of the Revenge Of The Nerds film series in that, whereas many wanted justice for the nerds at the onset, by the end of the series, they were rooting for the jocks.

That explains the brain damage.

Wow, no wonder Jon is such a scatterbrained loser, too much tackle dummy practice.

I was the lightest guy on the team, so, naturally, coach put me in as a tackle. After the cleat marks on my back started becoming permanent, I decided I didn’t need that coach or that sport.

He was a natural for the position.

So the football team made Jon a tackle dummy

I know Jon is supposed to be from a small town. But still . . .

lol