Baseball has disrupted the NFL in terms of the in-game stadum fan experience. The NFL needs to get with the times and develop buckets of beer for thirsty fans that are big enough to fit a regulation football into them. Either evolve or die. The new hottest internet meme isnt Tebowing folks, its Flaccoing. Thats when you ask livechat tech support staffers to play a little buy or sell in regards to whether or not Joe Flacco is a Elite QB in the National Football League.
We've seen the movement really pick up some steam over the passed couple weeks as we get closer and closer to answering the unaswerable question:. The first comes to us courtsy of Eric Stangel :. And then the most recent comes from Dan , who found him self engaged in a livechat with a sales rep literally named Andy Daulton:. There you have it folks, its unanimous.
We get it. The American people have been hit over the head by this fact for year's now with very little follow-up reporting. Does Tim Tebow masturbate? Why has no one asked him this? Not that I care. The Steelers signed Jordan Berry , who along with Brad Wing makes for two Australian kickers in a apparent effort to make there Special Teams unit look like as much of a penal colony as their offensive backfield.
Im growing concerned with the internet take-bubble. Its like people are taking any old opinon and attaching the word "hot take" to it when they realy just mean "bad opinion. A truly strong take is one that challenges your idea of what is right and wrong and usualy insults you into changing your thinking.
This past week Buzzfeed and the Atlantic and Gawker like a million times weighed in on what makes a take a take, but takes by their very nature are impossible to define.
Takes are like pornography- I know one when I see one and there both awesome. For example, saying that Dove soap sucks is not a hot take- you shouldnt be getting dirty enough to need soap to begin with,, but this- now THIS is a fiery take:. In conclusion, please stop overusing the term "hot take" or else its going to water down the entire brand. Save the term when you see a lunatic comparing the ship full of Libyan refugees to Ted Kennedy at Chappequiddick or somthing equaly insane.
The Aaron Hernendez verdict came down last week and I think we were all shocked to see such a good athlete turn out to not be a great person. The most questonable move of the trial was made by his attorney who, during closing arguments, conceeded that his client was indeed present at the time of the murder.
Turns out the "I was there, but I didnt enjoy it" defense is less usefull during a murder trial then when your friend asks you if you watched Love Actually. Hernandez will appeal the verdict, and he stands a good shot of getting the ruling reversed so long as the case gets heard by Judge Jeff Trippellette. On June 4th, , Hayes climbed on top of a Horse name "Sweet Kiss" at Belmont park , and in the middle of the race had a heart attack and died.
Sweet Kiss would go on to win the race at , with Hayeses lifeless body riding it to victory. This is a guy who knows about grit folks. We in the media, on the whole, don't tend to write if you don't click. That's the main truth in sports coverage. There's a lot going on here, including the fact that lost promise -- and, more so, the notion of that lost promise being somehow reclaimed -- is one of the most seductive notions of being human.
Tiger Woods, a broken golfer still clinging to 14 majors and a game where year-olds can beat back age, certainly has a stunning professional resume. His failures are not that of an entire professional career -- they're that of a remarkable career that fell short of being the greatest of all time. He, at least, has earned our awe. While he hasn't played a competitive round of golf in 1, days, our fixation on him can still be attributed to real accomplishments and a legitimate belief we may catch a glimpse of them once again.
You can barely say that for RG3, and you really shouldn't at all for Tebow or Manziel. Tebow hasn't played a single NFL football game -- not one down -- since , the year RG3 was a blazingly great rookie. He's now a baseball player, kind of, but only if it doesn't interfere with his television work. So, yeah, not exactly Tom Brady here. Tebow was once a great, even all-time great, college quarterback.
But sports don't do yesterdays; they do what-you-got-for-me-next? That makes Tebow less an athlete and more just famous -- Paris Hilton and Kardashian style -- for being famous. He's a good athlete and a good runner. He tends to have a few terrific moments every game, especially in the fourth quarter.
There are plenty of people who will tell you that he is a good, or even a great quarterback. But the thing is, he can't throw. I mean, literally, he can throw a football: he knows how to move his arm with the football in his hand, and he remembers to let go and everything. The football even stays in the air, and even goes in the right direction "forward".
But it rarely makes it successfully into the hands of its intended receiver. Properly throwing the ball is very important to quarterbacks.
Luckily for Tebow, the Denver offense is set up to exploit Tebow's skill set, which is a set that does not include "throwing," and therefore he only lets off embarrassing throws several times during games, not constantly. I feel like I'm missing something here. Do people just care because he's super Christian? Sort of. Tebow was never supposed to be the starting Broncos quarterback; luckily for him, the old guy, Kyle Orton, was a bust, and Tebow replaced him in October.
The Broncos played better better—seven wins, four losses—but most importantly for the Legend of Tebow, they won four games in a row on last-minute drives "in an exciting way late in the game". So it's also a sort of exciting fake-underdog thing, which makes the Christian thing even more exciting.
To Christians. He joked about the NFL lockout, saying fans would've had to resort to watching Canadian football with teams with silly names such as the Argonauts. And he compared Philadelphia quarterback Vince Young's preseason comments of being on a dream team with a bad dream - the nightmare of being naked in school. The Eagles lost four of their first five games. Rather than choose between his quarterback sons, Manning offered a quick retort.
Conveniently, the younger Baldwin brother was sitting right in front of Alec. As for the postgame altercation between coaches Jim Harbaugh of the 49ers and Jim Schwartz of the Lions, "I haven't seen a handshake that awkward since Nixon met Elvis.
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