3 posts tagged “football”
The story has been out for weeks and I STILL didn't know what a "walkthrough" was in reference to this "Spygate" madness.
Thank you, Google!
My takeaway from this past Sunday's Super Bowl result, as composed to a few friends:
Only reason I woulda wanted New England to win was so that all those old farts from the '72 Dolphins would SHUT THEIR COLLECTIVE TRAPS! What is it with long-retired athletes that:
-- Can't shaddap!
-- Always insist THEIR era was the best/hardest/most competitive/morally superior/had better movies or whatever!
Only guy from that team that's OK is Don Shula. Everybody else: go sip your champagne in some faraway swamp, away from desperate media whores.
/rant
Allow me to link and quote out of context from one of my fave sites, Baseball Toaster.
Mark Donohue live-blogged Thursday's amateur MLB draft, beginning with these great words:
But allow me to point out another great thing about the draft: For a few hours I get to feel like baseball is still America's favorite sport. It is incredibly aggravating to me the way that 60-70% or more of broadcast sports talk is about the NFL or college football.
(emphasis mine)
Mike Carminati echos the same thing in a recent post:
Meanwhile, whenever I turn on ESPN I get football updates even though the Super Bowl was four months ago and the regular season will not start for another three. Baseball highlights are fewer and farther in between all the time, and my kids never get to see the sport since it doesn't come on until after they go to sleep.
I'm not a fan of the NFL and it drives me batshit having to endure NFL/college football stuff all over: on Sportscenter, from co-workers, via casual conversation with almost everyone. On the other hand, there is hardly any reciprocation in terms of MY personal agenda and interests. Do you think the average sports radio "talk" show will have a debate on NFL coaches interjected by a reference to some baseball player? Hell, no! Yet some of my most cherished (because they are far and few between) baseball podcasts have had these FOOTBALL writers on as guests, possibly because I haven't the slightest interest in "Tee-OH's" big fucking toe.
I'm just glad I'm not alone. It's spooky to hear the echo of your own voice in the wilderness.
