Tonight, after what seems like an incredibly long wait…Prince Farming, a.k.a. Chris Soules, makes his debut as the new Bachelor!
This is fantastic…and this is a chance for Iowa to show New York, California, and the like that we are, in fact….better than them.
You know it…I know it…we’re the best state in America. The rest of America is just slow to figure this out.
What do we need? March Madness in 2016? That’s awesome…and helps, of course….Track & Field NCAA Championships? That helps too….Gold medalist gymnasts? Of course. Football teams that cause viral headlines due to the fact that the only thing our defense can tackle is our own coach, and that our kick returner did one of the most perplexing plays in football history…ever. However, we still needed that spokesperson to take it to the people….and here he is…Chris Soules.
The Bachelor, whether you love it or hate it….I love it….is a national phenomenon. People who don’t watch will know that the new Bachelor is a “farmer from Iowa”…they’ll hear jokes from Jimmy Kimmel, they’ll see parodies on Saturday Night Live.
Over the past 8+ years on the Bachelor/Bachelorette, all we’ve seen is fakeness. From Ben pretending to be sincere…only to find love with the she-devil Courtney…to us realizing that Emily is a serial engager….we’ve discovered that those that taste the Hollywood spotlight end up being totally fake.
This is Chris Soule’s chance to completely buck that trend. He can be genuine…he can be authentic…he can be real. He can do all this…and in the process…show the rest of the 49 states that Iowa is about something other than superficiality. It could happen….I think it will happen.
There’s only one downside…if Chris comes out as the “genuine” guy that we all assume and hope he’ll be…there will be a rash of Hollywood socialites who will flood our state looking for their next Prince Farming. We’ll know who they are though…who’s that tan in an Iowa January, right? (I’ll let my friend Sully know if this happens…he’ll be happy with this sudden arrival of fake-Hollywood-socialite-wannnabes).
Who will he pick? Ashley…Ashlee…Ashleigh…or the other Ashalee? So many Ashleys.
Good luck Chris (like you’re reading this). My wife has already told me that the grocery list for today includes a bottle of wine…and that I’m putting the kids to bed tonight, ha ha!
AWESOME is as AWESOME does!
