Gorilla: Hello everyone. A few weeks ago my fellow conchord, Wolf, discussed his feelings toward the play of some football teams early on in the sesason. I would also like to express myself on the issue of the NFL. First off, the league has had so many injuries (including paralysis, death, and your brain turnign to goo after you retire) that now any big hit is rewarded with a hefty fine. Well football is a man's game. You got to be TOUGH. You gotta fight through minicamps without keeling over from heat exhaustion. Then comes the pre-seson where the stars of the NFL don't even play because of the risk of injury. You've made it to the regular season. Perhaps the season goes swimmingly. OR....First game of the season you blow out your knee and can't play the rest of the season and you won't be able to try to repeat as MVP (Tom Brady). Perhaps your knees hold up, but as you go across the middle for a 12 yard reception you get your clock cleaned by a free safety trying to end someone. You get up and you don't know where you are. You think you're back at Millridge Elementary and its time for recess on the spider web. But your coach keeps playing you because you are a MAN and you're TOUGH. Ugh.. enough on the life restricting injuries.
My second complaint is that the NFL is sooooooo over-analyzed. You play ONE GAME A WEEK, then you have "experts" like John Clayton and Sean Salisbury discussing the most insignificant stories that mean absolutley nothing. Donovan McNabb didn't know a game can end in a tie (and theres an idiocracy right there), TO would like to make some cathces, he's so selfish and he destroys clubs. Tony Romo went to the movies. Tom Brady impregnated three indonesian circus midgets. WHO CARES!? The NFL is: play one day, talk about off-field nonsense the next six days.
Off-field garbage leads me to my final point. The NFL has to be at leat 64% criminals and law breakers. The best linebacker in the league murdered someone, the former top running back is a drug dealer, and all of the Bengals starters have spent time in jail at some point in the last three years. Adam Pacman Jones recently was given his third chance to play football and not cause off-field raucuses after failing the first two times. For all you die hard NFL fans from back in the day with the original LT and the Juice, I found a site with an NFL All Criminal Team: click
Well thats my rant on America's favorite sport. Enjoy the rest of the season.
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I agree wholeheartedly with the over-analysis aspect of your argument. Not only do the NFL's off-field stories take up a majority of sportscenter, they get multiple extra shows to further lose my interest. Not to sound like a broken record here, but the NHL gets better ratings than the joke NBA in most areas and a lot of people would appreciate SOME coverage on ESPN. You don't have to be a fan of hockey or a skeptic of the NFL to think that ESPN would be a better place with more actual sports and less outside bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what point you were making about the injuries, but I liked it.
ReplyDeleteGorilla: The point I was trying to make was that football destroys people physically. Half of retired players will have brain damage and here and there someone will pop up who won't be able to walk. The league is now realizing the dangers and is taking away the chances of the exciting aspect of the game. Any time someone gets jacked up, its automatically a fine.
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