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Another Pit Bull Reference
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In Mark Twain’s story, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County he writes about a pit bull named Andrew Jackson. According to Twain, Andrew Jackson was a stifle dog (a dog that would win matches by attacking and controlling its opponent’s back legs). Andrew Jackson won many fights in this manner until his owner matched him up with a dog with no back legs.
Andrew Jackson—without his favorite hold—lost his match, crawled off somewhere and died. Unfortunately for Andrew Jackson he was one-dimensional; he only had one move, and when he couldn’t get that move, he lost. But I’m not going to write about being one-dimensional—no, that’s too easy. I want to write about winning because of what you don’t have, as opposed to winning because of what you do have.
Let’s look at Andrew Jackson’s opponent. He only had two legs, his hind legs, according to Twain, had been cut of in a sawing accident. Andrew Jackson’s fighting style was based entirely on attacking the back legs, which his opponent didn’t have. So basically, Andrew Jackson’s opponent won because of what he didn’t have. He won because he was missing something.
Most people would think that Andrew Jackson would have the advantage in this match—four legs being better than two—but things aren’t always what they seem. Sometimes the disadvantage is the advantage.
Tap or Die has no back legs: no funding, no distribution, no advertising, no customers (yet). We’re just like Andrew Jackson’s opponent, were missing things, but we’re still in the fight, and we’ll use are disadvantage as advantage.
We’ll find a way to win, even though we have no back legs. We will win because we have no back legs.
*This is another reason to have a three-legged pit bull as a symbol of Tap or Die.
