It's been a long week for governmental influence in sports. The Roger Clemens hearings were not only a black eye on Clemens' reputation, they made Henry Waxman and the rest of the crew look like a bunch of buffoons. The common cliche was: 'Doesn't Congress have anything better to do, like, um, the war?' After watching Tuesday's hearings, be glad they choose to ignore important policy issues. If Dan Burton gets within a hundred yards of thinking about anything important, we're all totally fucked. (Oh, and let's not forget about Arlen Specter, whose closed-door meetings with Roger Goodell are almost as sneaky as the Patriots' taping scandal in the first place.)

No, it has not been a good week for the sporting minds in Congress. Fortunately, one congressman stands alone:

On Wednesday, the House passed a resolution congratulating the New York Giants on winning this year's Super Bowl and completing one of the most remarkable postseason runs in professional sports history.' The resolution passed by a vote of 412 to 1.

Murphy, a diehard Eagles fan who worked at Veterans Stadium as a security guard when he was 16, was the only House member to vote against it. As a former 700-level security guard and lifelong Eagles fan, I couldn't, in good conscience, vote for the New York Giants,' Murphy said Thursday. The only thing worse would have been a resolution honoring the Dallas Cowboys.'

Philadelphia Will Do classifies Patrick Murphy as the 'greatest U.S. representative of all-time,' though that may be a tiny overstatement. I'm thinking the title: 'Patrick Murphy — 8,000 times cooler than Henry Waxman' should be praise enough.

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