If the World Series occurs in October, and no one watches, does it really count as a World Series? Summing up the state of Major League Baseball is pretty simple. They intentionally schedule games around the staple that is the National Football League. Why else would they avoid playing their championship opposite Monday Night Football. The Series schedule is set far in advance, but you can bet officials from the commissioner’s office looks at Monday nights as untouchable.
And why shouldn’t they? The product on the field we get from MLB is so screwed up, that we can’t make it through the magic that is October without more cheating. In a world dominated by the steroids, HGH, and supplements of MLB’s slugging starts, is it any surprise that one of the supposed feel good stories of the playoffs is tainted by some pine tar on a palm? Kenny Rogers, the resurgent starting pitcher for Detroit, had what appeared to be some agent on his palm on the blistering cold Detroit night of Game 2. And what did the MLB officials do about it? Asked him politely to wipe it off!
Now I am no great philiosophizer about the rules and practices of baseball, but from what I could gather from national media and talk shows was that EVERY pitcher in the big leagues cheats in some form or another. That explains St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRusa not blowing his top and demanding Rogers removal from Game 2. Simply amazing. So here is how it works in MLB – if you don’t tell, I won’t tell, and we can BOTH cheat equally.
Then why in the hell are we outlawing steroids and growth hormone? Why not just let these guys juice up to the size of the Incredible Hulk? If traditionalists cry that 110 homers in one season by a juiced up Albert Puljos is too many, then we can just allow sandpaper in the pitchers gloves, some pine tar on the palms, and for God’s sake, let’s bring back the ol’ spitball!
Bud Selig makes me sick. Baseball makes me sick. Get this stuff off the tv. Unless, of course, it’s Fat Elvis and my Houston Astros.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Notre Dame's Fat Dumb Coach
Trying to figure out what I wanted to write about day seemed an easy task around 5:30 today – clearly it was going to be about the Cowboys and the sorry state of quarterback affairs in the Big D. But as I was skimming some of the sports websites, a story shocked me to the point of response.
The following is an AP story pulled from cnnsi.com:
Charlie Weis isn't sure Notre Dame is a top-10 caliber team.
He's convinced, though, the 11th-ranked Fighting Irish didn't deserve to be jumped in the polls and the Bowl Championship Series standings after a last-minute win over UCLA.
Can you, the casual sports fan, see the problem here?? Let me spell it out for you. U…C…L…A. The Bruins from LA, a mere mediocre team, go into South Bend and almost knock the Fighting Irish out of the BCS picture with a sound defensive game. Yes, that’s right, the #115 ranked defense in the country in 2005 made the Irish their bitch in their own backyard.
And Charlie Weiss can’t figure out why his team dropped? Let’s take a look, and perhaps ol’ fatty will understand a bit better.
Notre Dame is 6-1. We all know the one lost, at home to Michigan. Fair enough, most teams in the country would lose to Lloyd Carr’s boys (by the way, do we think those Wolverine fans still want his head on a platter now??)
But who have they beat? Georgia Tech in game one. I think we all saw what GT had when they played a team in the ACC with actual talent this past Saturday in Clemson. Penn State was game two. As this season continues to play out, we’ve been able to see that the Nittany Lions 11-1 season in 2005 may have been an aberration, and we are looking at a mediocre at best team in State College. The third game was the debacle at Michigan. Then, of course, is the Miracle in Michigan State. Congrats on that big victory ND! This is the same MSU team that needed to come back from 35 points down to NORTHWESTERN!
Of course, ND bounced back with the trouncing of Purdue and Stanford, two teams with a combined record of 5-11. And then, there was the UCLA game. A pass and catch in the mold of Rudy saved the day.
Let me spell it out for Charlie “Jabba the Hut” Weiss. You dropped because you have wins against middle of the pack teams. In reality, you should be 4-3 right now, but somehow you pulled out two miracle wins against MSU and UCLA. The combined records of those two teams? 8-7. A 53% winning percentage, and the mighty Notre Dame team can’t beat these guys without some heroics? Overrated never knew such an easy metaphor as Notre Dame.
And the quotes from Fatty get better.
“One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal," Weis said Tuesday. "Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me."
Home eating cheeseburgers? Spoken from experience? Do you think Weiss can even spell the word SALAD?!?
I would love for ND to play Alabama, Tennessee, or Florida, and see just why those teams jump the Irish in the polls. And I’m sure the walking beached whale is furious that Texas, who went into a hostile environment and beat a RANKED team (like Notre Dame would know what the hell a ranked football team IS) jumped the Irish in the BCS.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Navy came out Saturday and handed Notre Dame their second loss of the season. Of course, I am sure Heisman hopeful Brady Quinn will pull out some tremendous comeback against the Midshipmen, and our national media will hand that trophy over to ND. And the next time Lard-O and his boys play a ranked team? Expect USC to kick so much ass outta of the overrated Irish that Weiss ends up hiding in his own man-fat pouch as he rolls his way out of LA.
You know what would make the BCS a worthwhile system? If somehow we matched Notre Dame up with Boise State (who appears to be this year’s BCS sleeper) and watched the boys from the blue field run all over the Irish on a glorious New Year’s Day.
The following is an AP story pulled from cnnsi.com:
Charlie Weis isn't sure Notre Dame is a top-10 caliber team.
He's convinced, though, the 11th-ranked Fighting Irish didn't deserve to be jumped in the polls and the Bowl Championship Series standings after a last-minute win over UCLA.
Can you, the casual sports fan, see the problem here?? Let me spell it out for you. U…C…L…A. The Bruins from LA, a mere mediocre team, go into South Bend and almost knock the Fighting Irish out of the BCS picture with a sound defensive game. Yes, that’s right, the #115 ranked defense in the country in 2005 made the Irish their bitch in their own backyard.
And Charlie Weiss can’t figure out why his team dropped? Let’s take a look, and perhaps ol’ fatty will understand a bit better.
Notre Dame is 6-1. We all know the one lost, at home to Michigan. Fair enough, most teams in the country would lose to Lloyd Carr’s boys (by the way, do we think those Wolverine fans still want his head on a platter now??)
But who have they beat? Georgia Tech in game one. I think we all saw what GT had when they played a team in the ACC with actual talent this past Saturday in Clemson. Penn State was game two. As this season continues to play out, we’ve been able to see that the Nittany Lions 11-1 season in 2005 may have been an aberration, and we are looking at a mediocre at best team in State College. The third game was the debacle at Michigan. Then, of course, is the Miracle in Michigan State. Congrats on that big victory ND! This is the same MSU team that needed to come back from 35 points down to NORTHWESTERN!
Of course, ND bounced back with the trouncing of Purdue and Stanford, two teams with a combined record of 5-11. And then, there was the UCLA game. A pass and catch in the mold of Rudy saved the day.
Let me spell it out for Charlie “Jabba the Hut” Weiss. You dropped because you have wins against middle of the pack teams. In reality, you should be 4-3 right now, but somehow you pulled out two miracle wins against MSU and UCLA. The combined records of those two teams? 8-7. A 53% winning percentage, and the mighty Notre Dame team can’t beat these guys without some heroics? Overrated never knew such an easy metaphor as Notre Dame.
And the quotes from Fatty get better.
“One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They're down, they're playing at home and they win by a field goal," Weis said Tuesday. "Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn't even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me."
Home eating cheeseburgers? Spoken from experience? Do you think Weiss can even spell the word SALAD?!?
I would love for ND to play Alabama, Tennessee, or Florida, and see just why those teams jump the Irish in the polls. And I’m sure the walking beached whale is furious that Texas, who went into a hostile environment and beat a RANKED team (like Notre Dame would know what the hell a ranked football team IS) jumped the Irish in the BCS.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Navy came out Saturday and handed Notre Dame their second loss of the season. Of course, I am sure Heisman hopeful Brady Quinn will pull out some tremendous comeback against the Midshipmen, and our national media will hand that trophy over to ND. And the next time Lard-O and his boys play a ranked team? Expect USC to kick so much ass outta of the overrated Irish that Weiss ends up hiding in his own man-fat pouch as he rolls his way out of LA.
You know what would make the BCS a worthwhile system? If somehow we matched Notre Dame up with Boise State (who appears to be this year’s BCS sleeper) and watched the boys from the blue field run all over the Irish on a glorious New Year’s Day.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Really Bad Nicknames for Saturdays
You know what is really annoying? Naming a Saturday. Like ESPN does when it names a day of great college football games “Survival Saturday”, or, as they did back in September, “Separation Saturday”. What the hell is wrong with, “hey, there are some great days on this coming Saturday, let’s get a bunch of libations and enjoy the day”, or, “man, what a great day of games! Can you believe Notre Dame pulled out another nail biter over a really crappy team (again, and again, and again…)? Let’s go get some libations and talk about how cool those games were”
No, instead, we, as the mindless ESPN drones that we are, are force fed really crappy nicknames for the best day of the week. I didn’t really think that the word Saturday needed any dressing up – I mean, most of us don’t have to work as it is, and it might be the only day where our significant others actually believe that, yes, it IS ok to lie around the couch all day and drink too many brewskies.
However, those jackasses at ESPN have to show off their alliteration skills by imposing some stupid gimmicky nickname, instead of just playing some highlights. In light of this, I offer some of my own annoying nicknames for the higherups to consider using in future ESPN events.
Sorry Stuart Scott
Damn Idiot Dan Patrick
Wildy-overplayed World Series of Poker
Spank-monkey SportsCenter
“Tare-uh-bull” Bill Walton
Kiddy Kirk Herbstreet
Lame Lee Corso
See? This gig isn’t all that hard. It didn’t even take me 3 minutes to think of some really crappy nicknames to throw in front of ESPN’s top talent and shows, and WHAM-O, I have now made YOU feel stupider for actually reading the names! That is the feeling I get every time Stuart Scott’s lazy/stoned face looks at me on Saturdays and says, “Booyahaha, got my dogs in check yo, my nizzle fo shizzle with the heezy, got me some of dat Survival gansta lean on Survival Saturday!”
It’s actually annoying. Very annoying. I wish those dingdongs would just report the friggin sports story.
No, instead, we, as the mindless ESPN drones that we are, are force fed really crappy nicknames for the best day of the week. I didn’t really think that the word Saturday needed any dressing up – I mean, most of us don’t have to work as it is, and it might be the only day where our significant others actually believe that, yes, it IS ok to lie around the couch all day and drink too many brewskies.
However, those jackasses at ESPN have to show off their alliteration skills by imposing some stupid gimmicky nickname, instead of just playing some highlights. In light of this, I offer some of my own annoying nicknames for the higherups to consider using in future ESPN events.
Sorry Stuart Scott
Damn Idiot Dan Patrick
Wildy-overplayed World Series of Poker
Spank-monkey SportsCenter
“Tare-uh-bull” Bill Walton
Kiddy Kirk Herbstreet
Lame Lee Corso
See? This gig isn’t all that hard. It didn’t even take me 3 minutes to think of some really crappy nicknames to throw in front of ESPN’s top talent and shows, and WHAM-O, I have now made YOU feel stupider for actually reading the names! That is the feeling I get every time Stuart Scott’s lazy/stoned face looks at me on Saturdays and says, “Booyahaha, got my dogs in check yo, my nizzle fo shizzle with the heezy, got me some of dat Survival gansta lean on Survival Saturday!”
It’s actually annoying. Very annoying. I wish those dingdongs would just report the friggin sports story.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
NLCS Game 7 - Who Cares?
Game on. Tonight, in the next 20 minutes to be exact, we have our first Game Seven of the 2006 MLB playoffs. Asking around, you’d think that some sportsfolks might think these Game 7’s are the second coming of Christ. I mean, I think you might actually be able to hear Joe Buck splooging in his pants right now.
Seriously, who cares about friggin Game 7 of the NLCS? Two things create this apathetic attitude. On the sports level, let’s all be real clear here – winning the NLCS for the past 15 years has been somewhat like winning the lottery on Death Row. Sure, you have this immense feeling of luck and success, and yet you end up just getting killed in the end anyways. Yes, the National League is a better brand of baseball. And yes, the American League seems to be the home run derby of the professional ranks, making it the highlight of everything wrong with today’s game. Despite this, the NL just plain sucks. There is no long winded explanation needed. Pure and simple.
On a more personal level, Fox and MLB have made a grave mistake in pitting the likely single Game 7 of the postseason against what has quickly become the new cocaine of the 21st Century – Grey’s Anatomy. People who watch that show remind of crackwhores – they’d be willing to go down on anyone of anything just to get their weekly fix. It makes me sick. But what do I know?
I watch professional wrestling…
Seriously, who cares about friggin Game 7 of the NLCS? Two things create this apathetic attitude. On the sports level, let’s all be real clear here – winning the NLCS for the past 15 years has been somewhat like winning the lottery on Death Row. Sure, you have this immense feeling of luck and success, and yet you end up just getting killed in the end anyways. Yes, the National League is a better brand of baseball. And yes, the American League seems to be the home run derby of the professional ranks, making it the highlight of everything wrong with today’s game. Despite this, the NL just plain sucks. There is no long winded explanation needed. Pure and simple.
On a more personal level, Fox and MLB have made a grave mistake in pitting the likely single Game 7 of the postseason against what has quickly become the new cocaine of the 21st Century – Grey’s Anatomy. People who watch that show remind of crackwhores – they’d be willing to go down on anyone of anything just to get their weekly fix. It makes me sick. But what do I know?
I watch professional wrestling…
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
BCS Crap
Texas will kill Nebraska.
Texas will kill Texas Tech
Texas will kill Oklahoma State
Texas will kill Kansas State
Texas will kill Texas A&M.
And the best the Longhorns can hope for with the 11-1 season is a trip to the Fiesta Bowl. Thank you very much BCS!
I am so sick and tired on the BCS. But I am one of the rare ones. I don’t want a playoff. I don’t want to return to conference champion tie-ins. I just want the BS taking out of the BCS – and the BS is the computer rankings!
Let me get this straight. Computers are able to rank teams better than humans. According to the human polls, Texas is the 5th ranked team in the football world. According to computers, Texas averages 13! So apparently, humans are now so stupid that they are 8 spots off in ranking football teams.
Did anyone ever see that 80’s movie War Games? You know the one where the computer tries to start WWIII? At the time, the idea was so futuristic that the producers were considered science fiction geniuses. And yet now, in the technology craze of the 21st century, it is only appropriate that computers are in charge of one of our most passionate national pastimes.
Let’s take a minute and look at what the computers have actually accomplished for college football since the inception of the BCS.
In 2004, Auburn sat on the sideline to watch the USC Trojans destroy an obviously overmatched Oklahoma team. To this day, we have debates raging, especially here in the south, about who the real NCAA champion of that season was – Auburn or USC. I mean, they both finished the year undefeated, right???
And let’s look at 2003. We all remember that year right? For the first time EVER, the team who finished #1 in both the AP and Coaches Poll didn’t win the National Title. I’m sorry, what was that? You got it, because of the computer rankings, USC sat by and watched LSU and Oklahoma duke it out for the BCS / National championship.
2001 was no better. Here we have Nebraska, a team who didn’t even PLAY for their own Conference Championship. Both polls finished the year ranking Nebraska #4, and yet somehow the Cornhumpers end up playing in the national championship? What the heck was wrong with putting Oregon, the unanimous #2 team in both polls, into that game against Miami? Hell, even Colorado, the team that BEAT Nebraska to earn a spot in the aforementioned Conference Championship, had a firmer claim on the #2 spot than Nebraska!
The list could continue, but the reality of college football is simple. It isn’t the concept of the BCS which is hurting the sport. Determining the 1 vs 2 game in the country shouldn’t be like discovering electricity or inventing nuclear power. It should be about looking at the two best teams in the country and getting them to face off in the last game of the season.
We don’t need playoffs. Had Florida State pulled off the upset in the mythical first round of the playoffs against USC last year, would you, me, or ESPN had said, “Well, they played it on the field, and FSU won, so they must be the better team.” Hell no. Texas beat USC and the jackasses in Bristol still claimed USC was the best college football team ever.
What we need to do is eliminate computers from the formula. Give me an AP poll, give me a coaches poll, and average them out. If they removed the AP poll from the formula, I’d be OK with that too – I mean, honestly, what does the media know? I just mentioned they claimed USC to be one the best college teams of all time, and they couldn’t even win the national title. And the others which USC claims from 2004 and 2003 are debatable; just ask Auburn (2003) and LSU (2002). But I know the real world, and I can accept the AP voters, because, well, at least they are HUMAN.
We don’t want computers running our lives. No one wants to submit to the hardrive, email, PDA, ipod, cellphones, CPUs, and all the rest. So don’t let these MACHINES run the football world.
(of course, if Texas happens to jump into the Rose Bowl again based on the computers, then we should remove the HUMANS from the voting. What do humans know anyways!?)
Texas will kill Texas Tech
Texas will kill Oklahoma State
Texas will kill Kansas State
Texas will kill Texas A&M.
And the best the Longhorns can hope for with the 11-1 season is a trip to the Fiesta Bowl. Thank you very much BCS!
I am so sick and tired on the BCS. But I am one of the rare ones. I don’t want a playoff. I don’t want to return to conference champion tie-ins. I just want the BS taking out of the BCS – and the BS is the computer rankings!
Let me get this straight. Computers are able to rank teams better than humans. According to the human polls, Texas is the 5th ranked team in the football world. According to computers, Texas averages 13! So apparently, humans are now so stupid that they are 8 spots off in ranking football teams.
Did anyone ever see that 80’s movie War Games? You know the one where the computer tries to start WWIII? At the time, the idea was so futuristic that the producers were considered science fiction geniuses. And yet now, in the technology craze of the 21st century, it is only appropriate that computers are in charge of one of our most passionate national pastimes.
Let’s take a minute and look at what the computers have actually accomplished for college football since the inception of the BCS.
In 2004, Auburn sat on the sideline to watch the USC Trojans destroy an obviously overmatched Oklahoma team. To this day, we have debates raging, especially here in the south, about who the real NCAA champion of that season was – Auburn or USC. I mean, they both finished the year undefeated, right???
And let’s look at 2003. We all remember that year right? For the first time EVER, the team who finished #1 in both the AP and Coaches Poll didn’t win the National Title. I’m sorry, what was that? You got it, because of the computer rankings, USC sat by and watched LSU and Oklahoma duke it out for the BCS / National championship.
2001 was no better. Here we have Nebraska, a team who didn’t even PLAY for their own Conference Championship. Both polls finished the year ranking Nebraska #4, and yet somehow the Cornhumpers end up playing in the national championship? What the heck was wrong with putting Oregon, the unanimous #2 team in both polls, into that game against Miami? Hell, even Colorado, the team that BEAT Nebraska to earn a spot in the aforementioned Conference Championship, had a firmer claim on the #2 spot than Nebraska!
The list could continue, but the reality of college football is simple. It isn’t the concept of the BCS which is hurting the sport. Determining the 1 vs 2 game in the country shouldn’t be like discovering electricity or inventing nuclear power. It should be about looking at the two best teams in the country and getting them to face off in the last game of the season.
We don’t need playoffs. Had Florida State pulled off the upset in the mythical first round of the playoffs against USC last year, would you, me, or ESPN had said, “Well, they played it on the field, and FSU won, so they must be the better team.” Hell no. Texas beat USC and the jackasses in Bristol still claimed USC was the best college football team ever.
What we need to do is eliminate computers from the formula. Give me an AP poll, give me a coaches poll, and average them out. If they removed the AP poll from the formula, I’d be OK with that too – I mean, honestly, what does the media know? I just mentioned they claimed USC to be one the best college teams of all time, and they couldn’t even win the national title. And the others which USC claims from 2004 and 2003 are debatable; just ask Auburn (2003) and LSU (2002). But I know the real world, and I can accept the AP voters, because, well, at least they are HUMAN.
We don’t want computers running our lives. No one wants to submit to the hardrive, email, PDA, ipod, cellphones, CPUs, and all the rest. So don’t let these MACHINES run the football world.
(of course, if Texas happens to jump into the Rose Bowl again based on the computers, then we should remove the HUMANS from the voting. What do humans know anyways!?)
Goodbye Tiki
Word out of New York last night and today is that the great Tiki Barber is looking towards retirement. And the best part? National media coverage is limited, and it’s clear why – Barber has kept his nose, hands, body, and genitals clean in the view of public perception. And doing so in the media mecca of New York is no small feat. If one can survive the gauntlet of NYC and the constant pressure of being on the worlds greatest sports stage, then it can be assumed that Barber is exactly what everyone expects he is – a humble, upstanding athlete, willing to give back to the community and use his gifts for the betterment of others.
And sports fans say, “Who cares?”
Is it any wonder that we have athletes stepping on each others heads, doping up with steroids, shooting at people outside of strip clubs, or starting brawls in the OB reminiscent of the Socs vs. Greasers in The Outsiders? The youth sports community grows up idolizing whatever makes it onto Sportscenter – and the only thing that makes Sportscenter these days is actions looking like something off Jerry Springer. And yet when you get someone the moral caliber of Tiki Barber claiming he may retire, it barely makes it to the bottom line on ESPN2.
Here is a guy who went to one the great public universities in the country, The University of Virginia, and who actually – GASP- graduated! Stop the presses, a black ACC football players graduates. I am sure in the mind of many lower income black communities, he’d be considered a sell-out, ala Condi Rice. Apparently getting a degree and making good based on intellect is a sell out to the black Hip Hop community. But I digress. Back to the point.
Barber and his twin brother, Ronde, host a weekly radio show on satellite radio. Tiki works with Fox News on Wednesday talking about something BESIDES sports. Imagine that. Can you picture Terrell Owens on CNN? “We got issues in North Korea, sure. I’m not blaming anyone, the fault is ours, but c’mon, get me the ball! I love me some ME!”
The sports world tends to focus more and more on the negative personalities and incidents than on those folks making a positive difference. Maybe it’s because TO is more entertaining, jackass or not, than Tiki. Maybe it’s because we can’t believe the ghastly events in Miami that occurred over the weekend, and we DEMAND consequences for the game, while quietly enjoying the downward spiral of Thug U. (On a side note, the ratings for the replay for the FIU vs. Miami game would SKYROCKET if the fight which broke out will not be cut out)
All I am saying is let’s take some time to recognize and reward an established career by a young man who our youth can look up to as a role model. Would it hurt to take a look back at his magnificent career, and ask him for just one more year? I’ll be watching with mournful eyes Monday night in Dallas.
Of course, I still hope my boy TO runs the score up on those goody-good Giants…
And sports fans say, “Who cares?”
Is it any wonder that we have athletes stepping on each others heads, doping up with steroids, shooting at people outside of strip clubs, or starting brawls in the OB reminiscent of the Socs vs. Greasers in The Outsiders? The youth sports community grows up idolizing whatever makes it onto Sportscenter – and the only thing that makes Sportscenter these days is actions looking like something off Jerry Springer. And yet when you get someone the moral caliber of Tiki Barber claiming he may retire, it barely makes it to the bottom line on ESPN2.
Here is a guy who went to one the great public universities in the country, The University of Virginia, and who actually – GASP- graduated! Stop the presses, a black ACC football players graduates. I am sure in the mind of many lower income black communities, he’d be considered a sell-out, ala Condi Rice. Apparently getting a degree and making good based on intellect is a sell out to the black Hip Hop community. But I digress. Back to the point.
Barber and his twin brother, Ronde, host a weekly radio show on satellite radio. Tiki works with Fox News on Wednesday talking about something BESIDES sports. Imagine that. Can you picture Terrell Owens on CNN? “We got issues in North Korea, sure. I’m not blaming anyone, the fault is ours, but c’mon, get me the ball! I love me some ME!”
The sports world tends to focus more and more on the negative personalities and incidents than on those folks making a positive difference. Maybe it’s because TO is more entertaining, jackass or not, than Tiki. Maybe it’s because we can’t believe the ghastly events in Miami that occurred over the weekend, and we DEMAND consequences for the game, while quietly enjoying the downward spiral of Thug U. (On a side note, the ratings for the replay for the FIU vs. Miami game would SKYROCKET if the fight which broke out will not be cut out)
All I am saying is let’s take some time to recognize and reward an established career by a young man who our youth can look up to as a role model. Would it hurt to take a look back at his magnificent career, and ask him for just one more year? I’ll be watching with mournful eyes Monday night in Dallas.
Of course, I still hope my boy TO runs the score up on those goody-good Giants…
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The brawl in Miami
Thug: a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
Thanks to dictionary.com for the definition provided above. Just to be clear, I'd like to add another few word...
Thug: a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer. Football player from the state of Florida.
You know what the best part of the rumble in the OB was? The fact that more than 90% of the players involved from the University of Miami and Florida International University were from the state of Florida. Now I am from Texas. Any reasonable football fan knows that a large majority of college football players come from Texas and Florida. What most don't know is the amount of complete jackasses that our sisters of the south put onto the grand stage of college football each year. Perhaps this debacle can shed some light on the issue.
Let me expound. The University of Miami football program is Thug U. Always has been, always will be. The players who built the prestigous program were likely descendants of the founding fathers of the ultra violent and radical Black Panthers - a group designed to bring the black man all he deserves at the violent expense of all white people because, well, the black man is BLACK.
Thug U is the epitamy of what is wrong in college athletics. No one graduates - you go to "The U" to play football. No one cares if you can spell your own name. No cares if you can even spell "The U". To play at Miami, you have to be black, mad, stupid, and violent. And based on Saturday night's incidents, I must emphasize stupid.
A few years back, Miami and Florida almost beat the crap out of each other on Bourbon St before the Sugar Bowl. Fine. If the rejects at Thug U felt the need to attack their high school dropout buddies from UF, I can understand that. But Saturday was FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL. The athletes at FIU are just as likely to have ridden the short bus to high school as they were to be the third string place holder for their high school team. And the idiots at "The U" decided to show the boys at FIU how tough they were.
And here's the best part. The players at Miami get to play some more. Who knows what they might do to the Duke football team (I mean, Duke is home of white athletes who rape black women)
It makes me sick. Miami is a joke, both as an athletic department, and even more so a University which allows such henous behavior. Perhaps we need a little bit more global warming in order to swoop in some more hurricanes to clean up the disgusting mess created in Coral Gables.
Thanks to dictionary.com for the definition provided above. Just to be clear, I'd like to add another few word...
Thug: a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer. Football player from the state of Florida.
You know what the best part of the rumble in the OB was? The fact that more than 90% of the players involved from the University of Miami and Florida International University were from the state of Florida. Now I am from Texas. Any reasonable football fan knows that a large majority of college football players come from Texas and Florida. What most don't know is the amount of complete jackasses that our sisters of the south put onto the grand stage of college football each year. Perhaps this debacle can shed some light on the issue.
Let me expound. The University of Miami football program is Thug U. Always has been, always will be. The players who built the prestigous program were likely descendants of the founding fathers of the ultra violent and radical Black Panthers - a group designed to bring the black man all he deserves at the violent expense of all white people because, well, the black man is BLACK.
Thug U is the epitamy of what is wrong in college athletics. No one graduates - you go to "The U" to play football. No one cares if you can spell your own name. No cares if you can even spell "The U". To play at Miami, you have to be black, mad, stupid, and violent. And based on Saturday night's incidents, I must emphasize stupid.
A few years back, Miami and Florida almost beat the crap out of each other on Bourbon St before the Sugar Bowl. Fine. If the rejects at Thug U felt the need to attack their high school dropout buddies from UF, I can understand that. But Saturday was FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL. The athletes at FIU are just as likely to have ridden the short bus to high school as they were to be the third string place holder for their high school team. And the idiots at "The U" decided to show the boys at FIU how tough they were.
And here's the best part. The players at Miami get to play some more. Who knows what they might do to the Duke football team (I mean, Duke is home of white athletes who rape black women)
It makes me sick. Miami is a joke, both as an athletic department, and even more so a University which allows such henous behavior. Perhaps we need a little bit more global warming in order to swoop in some more hurricanes to clean up the disgusting mess created in Coral Gables.
The beginning
How often will you, the lucky reader, get to say, "I witnessed history?" Well, starting today, you are one of the select few. Welcome to Sports with Andy, a blog I have dedicated to the wild, crazy, oftentimes unbelievable world of sports. As I work in the field, and spend countless hours reading, listening to, or watching sports, I felt it would be appropiate to bring a bit of honesty, brashness, and fuel to the fire that is sports.
As we move forward, I welcome as many comments as you see fit to provide, however keep in mind one of two things - 1) I am the owner and writer, ergo I am the end all be all of what is right 2) My views in no way reflect those of ANY of the normal brown nosing sports folks whom you may find around the area. I promise to amuse, surprise, and sometimes offend, but never will it be unentertaining.
As we move forward, I welcome as many comments as you see fit to provide, however keep in mind one of two things - 1) I am the owner and writer, ergo I am the end all be all of what is right 2) My views in no way reflect those of ANY of the normal brown nosing sports folks whom you may find around the area. I promise to amuse, surprise, and sometimes offend, but never will it be unentertaining.
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