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"Teblew it."
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"Teblew it." |
Well, so much for having a career in a blue state.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/15/1187355/-Tim-Tebow-aligns-with-Hatemongering-Mega-Church I will not argue about the headline being biased. Of course the headline is biased. (You can find more neutral stories by searching for the names: I used this one for the embedded videos.) But the summation of the preacher's positions is accurate, and if that's where Tubya wants to make a personal appearance -- well, it's a very large brush and he'll find it can hold enough tar for everyone. We knew he was likely gone from New York. It may be in his best interests to leave immediately. 
I wish I could say I was surprised -- no, I don't.
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02-17-13, 05:25 PM (EST)
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1. "RE: Teblew it." |
Ya! Keep talking Tim! Chicago is blue, we don't want you!
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02-17-13, 07:47 PM (EST)
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3. "RE: Teblew it." |
It's not like the Bears need someone to tear apart the team and have most of the guys on offense hate him and the offensive line willing to look the other way while the likes of Jared Allen rush in practically untouched at the QB - they already have Jay Cutler for that.
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02-18-13, 04:09 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: Teblew it." |
Well the new OC was asked about him, and he gave the "great athlete, yada yada" speech and speculated as to how he would do at TE (a glaring Bear need)
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02-19-13, 00:30 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: I'll translate." |
I don't think it is anywhere near serious talk. Bears don't have the cap space to take care of all the guys they would like to keep already, they don't need stunt trades to keep the base interested, and we got lucky to some degree with a potential locker room cancer (Marshall) growing up and becoming Mr. Great Teammate. The only reason I'd ever want to see him in Midnight Blue and Orange would be for a photo-op with surly Jay. That might be a hoot.
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02-20-13, 01:15 PM (EST)
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9. "RE: Teblew it." |
As far as I knew, Tebow has never stated his beliefs on homosexuality publicly. That having been said, either he agrees with their stance, in which case he'll find only limited support a la Michael Vick, except without the talent, and he won't last, or he's just looking for a mouthpiece, in which case, he'll find himself with a career as a guest speaker at every megachurch in the country, riding the Heisman win for the rest of his life.Either way, he's definitely in minute 15 in the mainstream.
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02-20-13, 04:18 PM (EST)
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10. "RE: Teblew it." |
Maybe I'm missing something, which isn't difficult since, as an atheist, I don't support any Christian church, but why is Tebow's speech at this church being seen as his endorsement of it? I've seen tapes of Tebow speaking, and the only thing I've seen him endorse is the idea that God will act as a personal Lord and savior -- which is a silly idea, but in no way related to the hate being spewn by this church. It would seem to me that a devout Christian would want to testify far and wide -- even to a Muslim church if it would host him -- because that would be consistent with Jesus' instruction to his disciples in Matthew 10:16-22 to speak to hostile audiences as well as friendly ones: "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues; and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved."
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02-20-13, 05:54 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: Teblew it." |
LAST EDITED ON 02-20-13 AT 05:55 PM (EST)why is Tebow's speech at this church being seen as his endorsement of it? For the same reason George W. Bush's speech at Bob Jones University in 2000 was seen as endorsement of the school's policy against interracial dating. Seriously, though, that misses the point of my rant. Tim Tebow is known for two things - being a Heisman Trophy winner and not a subpar NFL player, and for being a devout and outspoken Christian. And his NFL career is turning sour before our eyes, so all he'll have left is his college career and his faith. Obviously these megachurches are hardly above exploiting his faith, and people who won big awards in college football are not above riding that award for the rest of their lives. See: Griffin, Archie, who is on Columbus sports' version of Mount Rushmore next to Woody Hayes. Such a future of speaking at churches and grand openings is Tebow's future. And frankly, given enough time, no one outside of north Florida will give two sh!ts about him.
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02-20-13, 07:59 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Teblew it." |
That is enough internet for me today. AyaK is quoting scripture.
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14. "Te-bowing out" |
From Tebow's twitter:While I was looking forward to sharing a message of hope and Christ's unconditional love with the faithful members of the historic... ... First Baptist Church of Dallas in April, due to new information that has been brought to my attention, I have decided to cancel my... ...upcoming appearance. I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope and Love to all those... ...needing a brighter day. Thank you for all of your love and support. God Bless!
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19. "RE: Teblew it." |
LAST EDITED ON 06-10-13 AT 07:00 PM (EST)Well, this should be interesting. I've never seen AyaK cry before. ETA: ESPN now confirming, so add Bullzeye to the suicide watch. Understand: it's not about what Tebow might be able to accomplish under the right coach or with the proper position, nor is it about any potential attempt to one-up the Jets again. To me, this mainly concerns what might be the single stupidest move of Hoodie's career: putting Tebow together with the Boston Media. I thought he was smarter than that. I thought Andy Reid would be smarter than that. Start the fatality count now. It's going to be high. Re-ETA: ESPN says the rumor is Tebow's been signed as a quarterback and their blogger feels Hoodie might be doing this partially to prove he can stop the media circus. *hollow laugh* ...yeah, he's lost it.
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06-10-13, 08:34 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Well. . ." |
I wager Tim won't be throwing the ball much, not with Tom under center. But put the both of them in the backfield together, they could be a potentially dangerous combination, a tandem Belichick is no doubt hoping to exploit. Let's not forget with Belichick did with highly underrated Danny Woodhead, a mere 5'9" 200-pound, but very determined, running back, who'd mouse his way through opponents defenses. And say what you want, Tebow can run and he doesn't fumble the ball. He is very fast around the corner. Tebow has accounted for 29 touchdowns (17 pass/12 rush) and just 16 turnovers in three seasons since the Denver Broncos selected him in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. He has also averaged five yards per carry. Obviously, the numbers aren't all bad once you get away from the pure-passer elements.
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06-11-13, 11:24 AM (EST)
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24. "RE: Well. . ." |
I think Belichick looks at Tebow and sees another Vinnie Testaverde project.
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06-11-13, 05:35 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 06-11-13 AT 05:36 PM (EST)Speaking of Testaverde and fancy footwork... (ESPN, April 29, about a month and a half ago) Testaverde and former NFL QB Chris Weinke, one of the top instructors at IMG, evaluated Tebow last month. Testaverde and Weinke "speak the same quarterback language," as Testaverde put it, because they both played under Dan Henning, a former Jets and Panthers coordinator. "Chris and I looked at Tim careful and we were both amazed," Testaverde said. "Everybody has been focusing on his throwing motion, trying to fix that, but nobody had picked up his footwork. His footwork was all screwed up. Chris and I looked at each other after about four or five throws, and we saw the same thing. We got his footwork fixed. His throwing motion is now a non-issue. "He throws with what we call 'effortless power.' He doesn't have that elongated motion anymore and his head isn't moving 2 1/2 feet when he throws it." Asked to explain Tebow's footwork flaws in layman's terms, Testaverde said "he was stepping in the wrong direction when he was throwing the football."
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06-21-13, 11:30 AM (EST)
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39. "RE: Teblew it." |
Oops! Forgot about Chad. What a "Chad" he turned out to be!
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06-11-13, 11:39 AM (EST)
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25. "Hoodie's press conference." |
LAST EDITED ON 06-11-13 AT 11:43 AM (EST)At this point in his career, I truly don't understand why any members of the press would show up not to be talked to. ETA: I indulged in a little sports talk radio earlier. Not only is Tubya the lead (and nearly only) story, but theories of why Hoodie signed him are growing wild on fertile fields of total crap. My favorite to date: because Brady is getting up there in quarterback years, Hoodie may not want to risk having him stay at his position in the fourth quarter of blowout games. So rather than follow the great Hoodie tradition of running up the score, he'll simply pull Brady and put Tubya in to run the game's last few plays. As one of the hosts immediately noted, this would mean Hoodie has just hired a knee-taking specialist.  Well, he does take one in such a 'special' way...
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06-11-13, 09:38 PM (EST)
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30. "RE: Hoodie's press conference." |
Testaverde went on to play for another 15 years in the NFL. He still holds a lot of NFL and franchise records, simply because of his longevity and ability to stay on the field. Alas, his record with the Pats is a paltry 2/3 passing for 29 yards and a (record season extending) TD pass. Career-wise, he had a 275 TD / 267 Int ratio, for a vanilla 75.0 passer rating, playing for 8 different teams, mainly with the Bucs, Browns and the Jets. Even so, it's pretty incredible for a QB to last for an amazing 21 seasons ('87-'07) like he did.
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06-12-13, 06:29 PM (EST)
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31. "RE: Hoodie's press conference." |
While Testaverde only played part of one season with the Patriots, he played for Belichick in both Cleveland and New York prior to that.
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06-14-13, 02:18 PM (EST)
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33. "Blast from the past" |
Here's an article from 1993, right after Belichick waived Bernie Kosar to give the starting job in Cleveland to a (then-injured) Testaverde, which led to the Browns missing the playoffs. The Browns would have made the playoffs had Belichick kept and started Kosar, but he didn't want a QB controversy to such an extreme extent that he was willing to miss the playoffs to prevent one.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138788/ The Browns made the playoffs the next year behind Testaverde and beat Bill Parcells' New England Patriots in the first round of the playoffs. But then Browns' owner/moron Art Modell announced at the start of the 1995 season that he was going to move the team to Baltimore for 1996, leading to the team (and Belihick) quitting on Modell during the season. Testaverde, who was under contract, was stuck and had to go to Baltimore, but Belichick went to New England, which made the Super Bowl. At the end of the season, Parcells and Belichick fled to the New York Jets in a turf battle with Bobby Grier (who won that battle but lost the war three years later when he was fired to make way for Belichick's return). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Grier_(American_football_coach) After their first season in New York, Parcells and Belichick acquired Testaverde from the Ravens (which was only possible because Testaverde had missed almost all of the 1997 season due to injury), and he was the Jets' starting QB for the next two years while Belichick was there, until Belichick went back to New England (where he already had Drew Bledsoe and then drafted a rookie named Tom Brady). Testaverde, meanwhile, stayed in NYC through 2003, after which Parcells (now in Dallas) traded for him for the Cowboys.
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06-18-13, 07:00 PM (EST)
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36. "RE: Blast from the past" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-18-13 AT 07:02 PM (EST)Thanks! Love that first article, which in part goes: Belichick knows it's all weird, but there's a catch: He doesn't care. That's just the way he is. Take him or leave him. This is football, and in football there's no room for hand-wringing and squishy psychoanalysis. "You prepare a team as best you can," he says. "You put them on the field, and you do your very best to win. The rest hardly matters. I may look at the paper every now and then, but come on. I've got other things to worry about." At least he's consistent. He spends much of an interview at the Browns' training complex explaining how much he hates doing interviews. He would rather chew aluminum foil for an hour than be interviewed. He is by turns dour, suspicious and ornery, although in an unfailingly polite sort of way. If Bill Belichick: The Movie were ever made, Belichick would be played by Harrison Ford: aloof, rumpled, preoccupied by things the rest of us will never fully understand. He hasn't changed a bit, has he?(ETA) Hey, grats on your 10 K, Aya K!
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06-21-13, 07:32 PM (EST)
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40. "NE tight ends" |
Well, the Patriots still have Jake Ballard, who missed all of last year with an injury but was part of the Giants' Super Bowl-winning team (over NE) the year before that. They also have Michael Hoomanawanui and rookie Zack Sudfeld at tight end. Plus, the truth is that Julian Edelman (if he can stay healthy) also plays a modified H-back position. And Rob Gronkowski will be back, although staying healthy is again a question.The Aaron Hernandez story, at this point, sounds similar to the Ray Lewis story. Hernandez was supporting a group of thugs, including renting cars for them to drive. The charges against him are designed to pressure him into talking, because Hernandez, like Ray Lewis and other U. Miami thugs before, during, and after them, has internalized the "no snitchin'" mentality of the thug life. Ultimately, like Ray Lewis, he'll get some kind of a league suspension -- although the idea of him being involved in the murder is far-fetched, because he'd have to be a bigger fool than we've ever seen to have left one of his rented cars, which he loaned to the victim, at the scene of the crime -- leading the police directly to him. He finally hired competent legal counsel yesterday. Now, if he does what counsel tells him, his legal trouble is likely to blow over fairly quickly, although the stink will never go away.
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46. "RE: Cut from the team!" |
Remember that one player who was cut just before the Super Bowl for a considerably lesser suggested offense? I wouldn't be surprised if this had been Hoodie's decision.
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06-26-13, 03:09 PM (EST)
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48. "Charged with murder!" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-26-13 AT 03:13 PM (EST)He's now been formally charged with murder and five gun-related charges including unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a large-capacity firearm.
ETA: Further new info has come in through twitter:
Prosecutor: Police have #Hernandez on tape with firearm and saying "you can't trust anyone anymore" before picking up Lloyd. --------- #Hernandez's (undestroyed) phone included texts to the victim and two friends on the night of murder. --------- Prosecutor says Aaron Hernandez was 'upset' with Odin Lloyd after Lloyd had spoken at a nightclub to people Hernandez 'had troubles with.' --------- Prosecutor: When he gets home, Hernandez walks through home with gun in hand -- and it's captured on video. --------- Prosecutor: Shell casing was found in the car Hernandez rented. It matched the casings found at the scene. #itsover
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49. "Priorities." |
The darkest humor I've found in this has been from learning about the complaints from people who demand that Hernandez be freed and reinstated, or just freed and picked up by another franchise on waivers -- because this arrest and release are hurting their prospective fantasy team.
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06-26-13, 08:40 PM (EST)
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51. "RE: Priorities." |
It's going to be an interesting transition to move from a mansion where you are surrounded by your posse of friends to a cell where you are surrounded by people who have little to lose by taking you on.
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52. "RE: Priorities." |
Hernandez just lost $40mFound this on Grantland, from Bill Barnwell. "The Patriots can try to recoup some of the money owed to Hernandez, but it's unlikely to prevent the deal from hitting their salary cap. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport noted that Hernandez's contract does not contain any "failure to perform" clauses that would allow the Patriots to skip out on paying him the remaining $3.25 million due from his signing bonus or his guaranteed base salaries in 2013 ($1.32 million) and 2014 ($1.14 million). According to Rapoport, most Patriots contracts contain such a clause, but Hernandez's deal only holds that to be the case in terms of his workout bonuses, which should save the Patriots a mere $82,000 in 2013 and $500,000 in 2014. The only way the Patriots could save more money would be if another team signed Hernandez, with their payments offsetting some or all of the money the Patriots were otherwise due to pay him." Well, now we know how he might pay for any potential appeal.
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59. "RE: Making the remainder collector's items." |
Trade in that cursed 81 for a high 5 while you can!
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06-28-13, 10:50 PM (EST)
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60. "RE: Making the remainder collector's items." |
There'll always be someone out there looking to add a Hernandez jersey to complement his Rae Carruth jersey framed on the wall.
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66. "RE: Full circle" |
As we move to a sports world in which athletes want to be like Jay-Z, and even want him to represent them, I guess it's no wonder that they also want to act like Jay-Z (who shot his older brother when he was 12).
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62. "Personal misconduct" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-29-13 AT 06:41 PM (EST)And apparently they don't pass the savings on to him either. With those guidelines in place, Hernandez stands to lose up to $10 million of his signing bonus, depending on the amount of time he would be incarcerated or suspended. He has earned one-fifth of the prorated bonus by playing last season, and that amount cannot be paid back. Any bonus forfeiture moving forward would be prorated based on how many weeks he would be unavailable to the Patriots. "It's hard to say at this point what he's going to lose," said former player agent Joel Corry, now a contract and salary-cap analyst for the National Football Post and CBSSports.com "But even if he's not charged, it should trigger a suspension under the personal conduct policy." Hernandez's signing bonus was broken into three payments: $6 million at the time of signing, $3.25 million this March and $3.25 million in March of 2014. Corry said, in the worst case scenario of Hernandez being imprisoned for the remainder of his contract, the Patriots would likely file a grievance to stop payment on the final installment and recoup $6.75 million of what's already been paid. (eta) More coverage of the salary and cap hits. NFL Players Association records show that the Patriots have voided all of Hernandez's remaining guaranteed money, which is $5.91 million. The hits on the Patriots salary cap will start at $2.55 million in 2013, then escalate until Hernandez's five-year contract leaves the books in 2015. Hernandez signed a five-year, $39.768 million extension in August 2012, with $16 million guaranteed. It included a $12.5 million signing bonus, prorated over five years. Hernandez has already collected roughly $10 million. The Patriots believe an umbrella clause that allows a team to suspend a contract for "conduct detrimental to the best interests of professional football" will keep Hernandez from collecting any more money from the team.
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69. "Football players who don't kill people." |
On the day Hernandez went back into the court and the state asked for a little additional time for case-building (granted), it's nice to have a reminder that the sport is also populated by human beings.http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9504862/tennessee-titans-rookie-jonathan-willard-saves-family-burning-car Plus the occasional hero. Unfortunately, I've also been seeing articles on Grantland about an upcoming college player named Jadeveon Clowney who is described as being too violent for football. There's a phrase you don't see every day. In fact, there's a phrase you don't really want to see at all. I am in no way accusing that one of an inclination towards doing things off the field, although I will cite him for stupidity: he made a happy statement about getting Jay-Z as an agent when he was about to become a college player. But too violent for football... gah. No, I don't want to watch him. Or have him on my team. In fact, I'm not sure I want him in the sport at all. There are fans looking forward to stats columns reading Tackles, Sacks, Body Count. I'm not among them.
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08-22-13, 03:10 PM (EST)
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75. "Howard Bryant" |
You know, I'd been wondering how long it would take before Howard Bryant showed up to attack the Patriots. He still blames the Patriots, especially Belichick, for his getting fired by the Boston Herald -- and not his own reporting, which didn't give two sh--s about what actually happened and instead focused on the underlying (and,, in his opinion, generally racist) causes of it, whatever it was.He made a splash when he came into Boston by writing about the long-deceased Tom Yawkey's ugly history of racisim, which everyone knew but no one talked about. But that splash evaporated, and he came off as a one-trick pony. I always expected him to wind up in the Obama White House. Basically, I'll let others respond to Bryant for me. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/08/06/espns-howard-bryant-trashes-tom-brady-bill-belichick-for-aaron-hernandez-response/ In truth, there may have been a salient point or two to be made from Bryant’s opinion, except for, well, they were buried underneath heaps of verbal garbage and logically bankrupt statements. * * * * With regard to Belichick, Bryant sarcastically referred to the coach as a “molder of men.” I’d challenge Bryant to find one person in the history of sports, writing and the English language who ever referred to Belichick as a molder of men. Belichick does not coach in Pop Warner, high school or college; he coaches professionals in the NFL, men who make millions of dollars to compete in a game. Belichick’s job is to employ those men in the best way possible to win on Sundays. It is not his job to “mold men,” nor does anyone think it is. Yet Bryant slams Belichick for not doing it, because again, Bryant wanted to say it. * * * * Where Bryant did have a point was in the media fawning over Belichick for simply “acting like a human being.” That praise went overboard. Fine. But is it Belichick’s fault what media members say about him? Let’s crush the coach because a football writer had horrible perspective! That’s what magazine writing is all about! He’s also correct in pointing out that sports organizations create myths of character in players that don’t always have any. Given the very public arrest record of many athletes, that much is universally known and accepted. It probably didn’t warrant its own column. We’re not idiots and can figure that out on our own. But thank you so very much, Mr. Bryant, for the drowning toddler hyopthetical. I’m surprised you didn’t criticize Belichick for not saving a baby this week while you were at it. Alas, Bryant wrote his column knowing it would invite the spotlight upon him, and in that sense it worked. But my, what an embarrassing price to pay to get some attention. Yet there is reason to believe Bryant himself is in on the joke. He opened his column by lamenting the “sports industrial complex,” the very industry that allows him to make what can be assumed to be a very nice salary. He complains that sports discussions are “routinely transforming both the English language and any sense of perspective into self-indulgent mush.” On that point, there is no counterargument. With his column bashing two men for not living up to impossible, ridiculous standards, Bryant proved he’s an expert in the area of self-indulgent mush.
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08-21-13, 12:06 PM (EST)
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74. "One (probable) gun down..." |
espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/9585709/police-find-gun-possible-aaron-hernandez-link-reports...one to go. *sigh* Although I wouldn't exactly be surprised if we got to three and beyond.
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08-27-13, 04:56 PM (EST)
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79. "RE: NFLPA files grievance for alleged serial killer" |
{dark}But how can you ask them to turn against forty percent of their membership?{/dark}
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85. "RE: Hoodie releases the Tebow" |
Or there could be a much simpler explanation that doesn't require any reading between the lines: He's a crappy QB.
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90. "RE: Back to Tebow" |
At this point, his best hope might be changing the date on his birth certificate backwards by a couple of decades, then claiming to have post-concussion memory loss. ...hey, worked for the other guy. Basic fact: when the BrINT is getting phone calls and you're not? It is a message. Silence speaks loudly in this particular business, and this particular piece of quiet is saying Your Professional Career Is Over Unless You Change Your Direction. But he can't. He doesn't know how. There is no backup plan.
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