They say we only want what we can't have, and that must apply to comic book characters, too. Metamorpho even made an appearance in the rebooted Justice League International, and that exposure didn't seem to help him in the voting.

Last week's poll question: Which previous DCU JLI member would you prefer to see join the DCnU JLI? (43 votes)

As the world's attention turns to next week's NFL Championship game, the rematch of two quite different quarterbacks takes center stage. Can male-model Tom Brady win a fourth title, proving himself inarguably among the best NFL quarterbacks? Can unflappable Eli Manning step out of the shadow of his father and sibling to prove he's equal to the hype?

More importantly, how do these quarterbacks compare to the best quarterback in history: Michael "Booster" Carter?

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Football season is now well underway, and naturally during the football season, thoughts turn to the greatest quarterback of all time: Booster Gold. At least, he should have been, if it hadn't been for a few bad decisions.

In the year 2462, Michael "Booster" Carter will be expelled from Gotham University for accepting bribes to intentionally lose football games. This is the cardinal sin in competitive sports: corrupted athletes rigging the outcome of games. However, given recent trends in college sports, how scandalous should this behavior be considered?

In the past year alone, the college quarterback who reportedly was "gifted" thousands of dollars in cars and cash in a violation of college rules was signed to a high-profile professional contract. The college quarterback who admitted accepting "gifts" was given a one-game suspension, a comparative slap on the wrist because at least 12 other players on his team were also guilty. And the Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback whose father was accused of soliciting payoffs to steer his son to the highest-paying school was rewarded with a multi-million dollar contract in the National Football League.

That's just the tip of the iceberg: systemic scandals have begun plaguing colleges across the country. From Tennessee to California, Oregon to Florida, it seems that every state in the Union is showing the signs of corrupted athletics programs.

In this context, does Booster's crime of taking payments to pay for his mother's surgery still make him such a bad guy? Or was he just unlucky enough to commit his crime in a future of low-tolerance for college sports shenanigans?

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Micheal "Booster" Carter never played in a Super Bowl, but if he had, he would no doubt have played like Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers passed for 304 yards and 3 touchdowns en route to a win. As a result of his success, Rodgers was recognized by the assembled media as the game's Most Valuable Player. Moments after being named MVP, Rodgers looked squarely into a television camera and announced to the world that he was "going to Disney World!"

A gifted star athlete turned corporate shill? That sounds a lot like Booster Gold to me.

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It seems that Boosterrific isn't the only thing experiencing severe technical difficulties these days. Yesterday, the Teflon roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed under the weight of accumulated snow, diverting a scheduled Sunday Minnesota Vikings game to tonight in Detroit.

The Metrodome has suffered collapse on several other occasions. Of course, Booster Gold was present for the most severe structural failure when the aliens from Dimension X used the Metrodome as a staging ground for their invasion of Earth. If marauding aliens cannot stop the Metrodome, a little snow won't keep a good Dome down.

Just as resilient is Boosterrific, which has now fully recovered from a system failure last week. I have already updated Booster Gold #39 and Justice League: Generation Lost #15. Because I'm a completist, I'll soon be adding every other DC Universe book released last week since Booster appeared in the "DC Nation" column. (Figures that it would happen this week.) Thank you for your patience.

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Starting this past weekend, both the college and professional football seasons are underway. Millions of Americans are gambling millions of dollars on these sports. Hopefully, this does not include any star quarterbacks who may become publicly disgraced, forcing them to steal museum exhibits and travel back in time to find a new path to public acceptance. That would be a tragedy.

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