In the past few days, every time…EVERY time…I’ve turned on a sportstalk radio station, be it in Chicago, Peoria, the Quad Cities, or New York or Minneapolis via internet for that matter, the discussion is the same.
Are they talking Spring Training baseball, a very exciting time for all teams? Nope.
Are the talking about the stretch run in the NHL or NBA? Nope.
Maybe they’re talking about the soon-to-descend-upon-us college hoops March Madness? Um, no.
Oh, wait, I know! NAZICAR season just started with the big Daytona race. Gotta be it, right? No again.
What are talking about? Yep. The frickin’ NFL. I’ve heard Mel “What The Hell Do I Actually Do?” Kiper ranting on ESPN about potential 5th round draft choices at the all-important punter or tight end positions. I’ve heard other hosts rambling on about how Bubba Joe Bob Hickaburger can squat 450 a hundred times, or how Latonzalicious Jackson runs a 4.32 40-year dash without pads, but slows to 4.38 with pads. I’ve heard how Studly McOverrated QB is 6-4 and can see over lineman and can get the ball from his hand to a wideout on a 12 yard hitch pattern in 2.73 seconds, about .04 seconds faster than Sexy California Dudewacker, who’s also only 6-3 1/2, btw.
Interestingly, btw, you don’t hear about their college grades or their steroid test results…but I digress. Bottom line:
I…DON’T…CARE.
And nobody else does, either, except for 31-year old Geech Puckerbrush sitting, unshowered for days, in Mom’s basement gearing up for the next big season of Fantasy Football. Â
Talk baseball. Talk hockey. Talk stock cars. Hell, talk bowling and golf. Just DROP FOOTBALL FOR A DAMN WEEK. Hell, the damn draft…another overrated and overhyped phenomenon, is still over a month away. Just shut up about football for one stinkin’ week. That’s all I ask. Sheesh.
16 responses so far ↓
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Billy Dennis
// Feb 23, 2008 at 10:49 am
Agreed. Let’s make a pact: We’ll post links to as many baseball articles as possible until the regular season starts. OK?
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BJ Stone
// Feb 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm
You go ahead. I’m not into baseball anymore, unless it’s news of which one of the cheaters has been caught. But a lot of people still are into the stuff that actually happens on the field, and wouldn’t it be nice if the sportstalkers realized that.
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Billy Dennis
// Feb 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm
So … you bitch about how they are talkign about football instead of baseball or NASCAR. But you don’t follow either baseball or NASCAR because the owners of both have pissed you off too many times.
Geeze.
Learn to seperate enjoyment of the sport from the politics of those who own the teams. You’ll enjoy sports more.
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Will Stevenson
// Feb 23, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Did you just write this blog so you could come up with the most fictional names humanly possible?
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BJ Stone
// Feb 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Will, you busted me.
Billy, Billy, Billy, the ENJOYMENT I’m getting from baseball right now is seeing these lying a-holes like Clemens and Sosa and Bonds and all the other steroid abusers going down. They’ve ruined the best sport. And I want to hear MORE about how they’ve embarrassed themselves and ruined the sport, and I want to hear what’s being done about it. I want to hear that more than NFL draft talk.
NAZICAR? The sanctioning body sucks. The new template cars suck. The rules suck. The fact that two teams are going to win about 90% of the races this year sucks. And I’d STILL rather hear the latest…maybe a glimmer of hope that someone will come to his senses and kick Toyota back out of the sport, and that maybe someone is trying to start a new series to challenge NAZICAR (this has been talked about, btw)…from stock car racing of ANY kind than have to listen to the 900th non-stop hour of draft analysis from Mel F’ing Kiper.
I want to hear about the NHL, which is having a thrilling season. I want to hear about the NBA, which has just seen some earthquaking trades made, and how they will play out. I want to hear about Kelvin Sampson destroying the reputation of Indiana University basketball, and I want to hear about how that arrogant school president should have never let Bob Knight go in the first place.
I want to hear all that, and like I said, I’d also take Tiger Woods and Walter Ray Williams and even SOCCER talk before I want to hear who’s the 14th rated long snapper from Alcorn State. Is that so hard to understand?
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BJ Stone
// Feb 23, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Besides, Billy, using your own logic, you should never ever ever write a post about politics, or the Peoria Civic Center, or fire stations, or police tactics again.
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slbill
// Feb 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm
BJ, I agree with you about the football talk. I heard some of it Saturday. While I am not fond of all the NBA talk, at least it is in season.
At least CART and IRL have now resolved their differences – maybe you can switch to open-wheel.
-That, and there is always American Gladiators.
SLB
http:\\equipmentmanager.blogpeoria.com
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Cory
// Feb 25, 2008 at 12:52 pm
NASCAR is a tedious, boring excuse for automobile racing. If you want to see drivers with actual SKILL, you have to watch ARCA, SCCA, F1, and the like. That’s right, the racing where they actually have to use their brakes and turn both directions.
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BJ Stone
// Feb 25, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Cory, I’ve heard this argument many, many times. However, I’m still waiting for an SCCA or F1 or Indycar ace win on a NAZICAR oval against the good ol’ boys. Hasn’t happened yet, but we keep hearing about all this “skill” the F1 guys have.
I’m no Jeff Gordon fan, believe me, but you are aware that he hot-lapped an F1 car some years back, and in only 15 laps and in his first time in the car, he was up to a speed that would have qualified him for a race. Think what he’d do if he dedicated himself to just that type of racing.
I think it takes as much talent to get the absolute most out of a 3,500-lb stocker with relatively skinny tires than it does to wheel a ground-effects, computer assisted, fat tire F1 car. And I don’t have the talent to do either one.
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mortonmalaise
// Feb 25, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I almost forgot- I’m really sick of hearing about football as well. Thank God the Patriots didn’t win the Super Bowl. The guys at ESPN would still be dry-humping a cardboard cutout of Tom Brady every day.
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Billy Dennis
// Feb 25, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Hey, I enjoy reading/hearing about other sports as well. I just don’t believe in “boycotting” a sport I enjoy just because of the behavior of a few jerks.
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BJ Stone
// Feb 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm
A few? Try about 1/3 of them at least. That’s my guess.
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BJ Stone
// Feb 25, 2008 at 8:16 pm
MM – LOL…I hear there are actually still two ESPN guys DOING that STILL.
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jadedgirl
// Feb 25, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Yeah…dry humpin that guy…even the cardboard representation would take some skill, cause you could never get past his Frankenstein-ish forhead.
Ughhh.
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mortonmalaise
// Feb 26, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Jaded,
I think you might be missing the point.
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jadedgirl
// Feb 28, 2008 at 8:02 am
Nah…I get it…just making commentary on how NOT attractive that guy is even though guys and girls alike think he’s real “swoon” material. Either based on talent or looks, I simply think he’s a toolbox. There are other Q-backs out there other than Tom Brady, and I am sick of hearing about him. Ughhh, again.
;o)
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