For some, it is easy to confuse being a badass with having badassitude. The 2 things are different. A badass has capabilities in a particular area of life or endeavour that stand out when measured against other people’s abilities in the same area of endeavor. Badassitude is how one carries, manifests and internalizes that quality of being a badass. When one scores high on the badassitude scale, one’s effectiveness in the area in which they are badass is highly acute.  In a manner of speaking, a person who scores highly on the badassitude scale is, lethal. Tiger Woods for instance, in the specific endeavor of competitive golf is a badass who is literally off the charts on the badassitude scale. He is lethal. In golf.

The game is not over yet but I can unequivocally judge that both the Arizona Cardinals and the Green Bay Packers have rich amount of badassitude. Interestingly, I had not thought much of the badassitude in the Arizona Cardinals before.  One did not think of them as a team that exhibited much apparent badassedness. Having said that, they have today shown a quiet calm and steadfastness that only badasses know to carry themselves with. The Green Bay Packers, down 17 points calmly worked themselves back into the game as only badasses who know what they are capable of would do. Total double badassitude win! A good day in the realm of badasses and  badassedness!

Either it was the weather, or as some of us have suspected for a while, the Patriots have been perpetrating a fraud for a while now. That was not a team that carried itself like a badass team at all. In fact ever. Limp, they were bitch-slapped by the Ravens who were just dripping badassitude. They always have, the Ravens, had a ton of badassitude but today it was off the charts.  I have always thought Brady and Moss, to name a few were up there on the badassitude scale. But taken together, the Patriots were a punk team today, and they had their ass kicked the way a punk team gets its ass kicked.

The Philadelphia Eagles. They had nothing. In a mystifying total lack of badassitude, they looked beat before they had played 2 series. All season long, these guys had venomous badassitude. When push came to shove, it evaporated. Total fail!

Hate to say it, the Cowboys had badassitude to burn. They kicked the Eagles ass every which way from yesterday, and they did it like they knew they were badass. Total win!

Badassitude Defined: Possessing a particularly Badass nature.  The quality, condition and degree to which one is a badass. How one’s badassedness is expressed outwardly and reflected internally.