Mike Zimmer and the Chewbacca Defense

Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty ImagesIf you’ve been around this website for any length of time, you know that yours truly loves a good South Park reference. Hell, I love a bad South Park reference, too. I just like South Park, okay?

One of the more well-known bits from South Park is what’s known as the “Chewbacca Defense,” in which a Johnny Cochrane-esque character launches into a monologue about something completely unrelated to the court case at hand in an attempt to confuse the jury.

I’m not going to transcribe the entire Chewbacca Defense here, if for no other reason than I think I’ve done it before. But I am going to connect it to something relevant to our interests.

As the quotes flowed…