- 10:25 AM
- 05/21/13
I guess it kinda does look like from.
There was a lot that went into the Tebow hate. He was drafted by McDaniels (universally hated here) who traded up to get him when seemingly no one else wanted him. There's Tim being Tim, which some people just can not handle. There's the Tebow fans who are just relentless and basically forced Tebow into the starting lineup over Brady Quinn who was Orton's backup at the time (Tebow was third string) and that didn't sit well when a player's fanbase seems to be pulling the strings. Then, when Tebow does get to play neither side ever got a foothold in the argument. Tebow would look just mind-numingly awful and still win, or he would play pretty well one week and abysmally the next. Both sides had something to cling to every week. Was it exciting? Hell yes. Did I have any confidence that Tebow could replicate his modest success? No.
posted by tron7 at 06:23 PM on May 13
Yeah, that whole winning-games thing is enough to piss any team and their fans off. Having to fill Kyle Orton's shoes would be a daunting task for anyone.
Oh, I know, we are such horrible fans.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
posted by tron7 at 12:00 PM on May 13
The fans loved it in Denver, and the only ones who seemed to despise it in the city was Elway and Fox.
This is completely incorrect. There was heavy criticism of Tebow after every single game and an equal measure of Tebow worship to go with it. You could not talk about the Broncos without it getting contentious. The local sports talk radio was having the time of their lives. I've never seen a fan base so split on one of their own players. I was watching one of the games at a bar and there was nearly a fight mid game between the pro-Tebow and anti-Tebow factions. Take what you see nationally and turn the volume up to 11 if you want to know what it was like in Denver for Tebow time.
posted by tron7 at 02:27 AM on May 13
- How does the NBA have ZERO games scheduled this early in the playoffs?
It's last Friday's fault. Four game 6s with prospective game 7s on Sunday. When all of those series ended last Friday the NBA needed somebody to play on their Sunday showcase so the Thunder-Grizz and Knicks-Pacers started their series on only one day rest. They've been going every other day for 4-5 games straight and the NBA decided to give them extra time on a travel day since they gained extra time when all those game 7s fell through. Friday's fault.
posted by tron7 at 10:06 AM on May 10
Joey Crawford doing his hothead thing tossed Chris Paul and Zach Randolph last night after the game was more or less over.
Why does the NBA still employ this man? At least he had the decency to wait until it was essentially over.
posted by tron7 at 05:46 PM on May 04
It's a little strange to me that this story seems like such a big deal when John Amaechi came out in 2007. While Jason Collins is technically not retired he isn't much more than roster fodder at this point and I would be surprised to see another team sign him. Is it that big of a deal that he's technically an active player or are we, as a society, just more accepting of players being gay now than we were in 2007?
On edit: Here's the Spofi discussion on Amaechi from '07
posted by tron7 at 02:34 PM on April 29
They popped up to gloat about Tebow winning more playoff games as a Bronco than Manning but I haven't heard from them since.
posted by tron7 at 11:14 AM on April 29
All of Yu Darvish's pitches at once. From Reddit.
posted by tron7 at 02:47 PM on April 25
Sequence of events...
But... how do you mark that in the book?
posted by tron7 at 11:26 AM on April 20
At least Foxboro was spared. Jokes about bombing there can still be funny, thank god.
So you found Stevie Johnson's joke more callous than using a tragedy to try and prove a point you made on the internet a couple weeks ago?
posted by tron7 at 06:13 PM on April 15
BI, I have it on good authority that you've been inducted to the Spofi Hall of Fame! Congrats!
posted by tron7 at 01:49 PM on April 08
This site, like it or not, conforms to the idea of agreeing and jumping in line with the norms, or the popular way of thinking about certain topics. You are upset for being "shit on" for posting topics, but a bigger concern may be for those who are "gang" shit-on because their comments stray from the norm. Once that starts it always appears a subject with the potential for any two-way dialogue disappears.
Your standards for a gang-shitting are pretty low. A sarcastic comment and a plea to lighten up and we're bending your will? What do you want us to do when you overreact to a joke?
posted by tron7 at 04:09 PM on April 05
No, it will only be fucking hilarious if thousands of innocent people in South Korea are destroyed and the US finds themselves involved in another conflict it can't afford to be in.
Well if that happens we'll have a lot more to deal with than Stevie Johnson's perceived insensitivity. Anyway, I've learned to just stop worrying and love the bomb.
posted by tron7 at 11:54 AM on April 05
Yeah, he'll really have to eat his words if Foxboro get's nuked.
posted by tron7 at 10:22 AM on April 05
I had a lot of misconceptions about JaVale McGee when he came to the Nugget's last year. I saw the lowlights and figured that pretty much summed the guy up but he's become one of my favorites on the team and the player I probably think about the most. This piece by Ben Hochman at the Denver Post is some of the best work I've seen in explaining The Great Adventure that is JaVale McGee.
posted by tron7 at 06:39 PM on April 01
Look how much happier the Dolphin looks now that he got that damn helmet off.
posted by tron7 at 02:21 PM on March 28
Baltimore Ravens agree to terms with Elvis Dumervil
I think Dumervil will be good for the Raven's but I'm not sad to see him go. He gets eaten alive in the run game as a 4-3 End and had the quietest 11 sacks I've ever seen last year. The worst part about losing Elvis is that we no longer have Von Dum as a nickname for our pass rush.
posted by tron7 at 05:16 PM on March 25
He's a non-Welker! I don't know what that means but it seems to be the chief complaint. You left out younger, by the way. I think they should have signed Welker but they saw something they didn't like. If I can't have Welker for whatever reason (and again, I don't agree with this) I would probably give Amendola 10 million guaranteed to take over Welker's old roll.
posted by tron7 at 12:49 PM on March 14
That Amendola deal is great for the Pats. He's not Welker but I think he can fill much of that same role, provided he can stay on the field.
posted by tron7 at 10:41 PM on March 13
How to get ejected in the NBA.
posted by tron7 at 10:38 PM on March 13
Belichick is just fucking with us now, right? $6 million per year for two years seems about as affordable as possible for Welker.
posted by tron7 at 06:14 PM on March 13
And for those interested in the sharp-toothed pitch invader, it was a Beech Marten, which is significantly larger than your average mustelid.
I used to see the Marten's bigger brother, the Fisher, occasionally in Wisconsin. We also had some family cats disappear around the time of the visit. I can't prove anything but before the Fisher showed up we had some pretty competent outdoor cats. Anyway, it's a fun wiki read.
Fishers are one of the few predators that seek out and kill porcupines. There are stories in popular literature that fishers can flip a porcupine onto its back and "scoop out its belly like a ripe melon."
Whoa!
This was identified as an exaggerated misconception as early as 1966.
Aww..
Observational studies show that fishers will make repeated biting attacks on the face of a porcupine and kill it after about 2530 minutes.
Okay, that's still pretty rad.
/weaselfilter
posted by tron7 at 06:42 PM on March 11
So you'd read the review if it was by a defensive end?
posted by tron7 at 09:42 PM on March 08
Crawford not playing tonight in Denver. Did he hurt himself throwing that lob? Worth it.
And as I'm typing this Craig Sager is telling me he injured an ankle in the first and kept playing.
posted by tron7 at 12:06 AM on March 08
The video starts so quickly and the play is so strange that it's hard to figure out what the hell is going on. Does credit really go to Kobe for tricking the Hornets? Dantoni? I can't imagine you'd actually draw up a play intending the defense to forget which basket they're guarding.
posted by tron7 at 12:13 PM on March 07
If this happened in the basketball version of Friday Night Lights I would roll my eyes so hard.
posted by tron7 at 10:13 AM on March 05
Dagger! To be fair, it looked like it went in.
posted by tron7 at 01:39 AM on February 28
The NFL according to British teens. via Reddit. Goodell's right, they are chomping at the bit to get football over there.
posted by tron7 at 11:06 AM on February 23
Oh, right, Jason Collins. In my mind he was somehow more irrelevant than the guy with no ACL. That 8 fouls per game is going to be tough to swing if he ever manages to play 36 minutes per game.
posted by tron7 at 11:41 AM on February 22
Only if you don't count Jordan Crawford to the Celts in return for Six Fouls and a collection of body parts from Leandro Barbosa!
Sadly, Washington doesn't even get the six fouls.
posted by tron7 at 10:01 AM on February 22
Worst. Trade Deadline. Ever. Redick to Milwaukee the biggest deal of the day.
posted by tron7 at 03:49 PM on February 21
If he broke down the door with a cricket bat it doesn't seem that odd that he would bring it into the bloody bathroom. The only thing out of this story that seems completely implausible is that she wouldn't yell back from the bathroom. The Manti Teo saga seemed about as likely, to me, so I'm willing to hold out for more evidence.
posted by tron7 at 02:29 PM on February 19
Pistorius' account of the events.
posted by tron7 at 12:41 PM on February 19
Yeah, ok, I should have said murder. Murder rarely makes sense is what I was getting at.
posted by tron7 at 10:40 AM on February 14
Things always make more sense than shooting someone on purpose.
posted by tron7 at 10:19 AM on February 14
ITYM Balkan.
Wasn't familiar with that acronym and the first search hit is International Tournament of Young Mathematicians (ITYM)!
As I see it, the problem came when the IOC, in an effort to appeal to younger viewers, threw in these modern "sports." Snowboarding? Short-track roller racing? Rugby?
This is great, I hadn't seen a '_____: not a sport' comment on Spofi in a coon's age.
posted by tron7 at 10:07 AM on February 13
Like a helmet causing a concussion.
posted by tron7 at 05:26 PM on February 08
Now I'm wondering if a team has ever been that close to elimination and went on to win the title. If not, shouldn't the play have a nickname or something? 'The Bomb' or 'Rahim's Brainfart' or 'The Stupidest Fucking Thing I've Ever Seen'
posted by tron7 at 10:53 PM on February 04
Yeah, that's right up there. Being in the Championship game probably means there's more weight riding on it. There was still some work to do in that game, though. Assuming Favre got it down to the 33, Longwell at 24/39 is 62% from 50+ in his career. The Vikings, at that point, would have been very likely to win the game, over 80% chance. The Broncos were at 97.2% probability of winning the game before they were Rahimed.
On edit: Here's the Win Probability from the Favre game.
On edit edit: That same website has the Ravens Win Probability at .02! And now they're Super Bowl champs. Damn.
posted by tron7 at 06:47 PM on February 04
This result just makes me more upset with Rahim Moore. I've been thinking about it and it might be the biggest gaffe in NFL history, at least through my orange tinged glasses. Has there been a more costly and easily avoidable mistake? The Fumble and the Eagles picking up a 4th and 30-something against the Packers is as close as I could get.
posted by tron7 at 05:31 PM on February 04
Randy Moss looked like he didn't want to be there. I'm not surprised because it's Randy but it was strange to see at a Super Bowl.
posted by tron7 at 11:05 AM on February 04
A Pistons fan takes in the news of Prince being traded.
posted by tron7 at 12:32 AM on January 31
I can't help but picture Ray, in full uniform, killing a deer with his bare hands and chewing the velvet off the antlers. So is the media going to care about this? They like Ray so probably not, but it's evil steroids so maybe so, but it's in football so we don't really care.
posted by tron7 at 01:39 PM on January 29
Vikings punter Chris Kluwe posed a question to Roger Goodell on a reddit AMA the commissioner was doing and got a response.
posted by tron7 at 05:56 PM on January 28
Don't they already have an Upton?
posted by tron7 at 05:56 PM on January 24
A lawyer for Manti Te'o's hoaxster says he faked a female voice in phone calls with Te'o.
This is the weirdest story ever.
posted by tron7 at 03:14 PM on January 24
I think it's possible for a reasonable person to think that he personally killed Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, and that his friends and his legal team got him out of it.
That's enough for me to think that he should not get the amount of positive attention he gets from the media. If there's even an outside chance a guy got away with murders we should just avoid putting the guy on a pedastal. Ray Lewis gets that positive attention because he's as good an entertainer as he is a linebacker. If the guy had the personality of Navarro Bowman he'd be ignored completely and if he had the personality Barry Bonds he'd have horrible horrible things written about him.
posted by tron7 at 01:24 PM on January 22
That God let him down when He told him to sign with the Jets instead of the Jags.
Nah, man, he's being tested. Some real Job shit.
posted by tron7 at 12:59 PM on January 22
Theory: Te'o really is hoaxed, but he discovers...
Sure, why not.
posted by tron7 at 11:31 AM on January 17
I'm still waiting for that one detail that makes at least some sense out of this whole situation. I can't figure out how to react. Should I be disgusted? Amused? Sympathetic? Utter bewilderment seems to be the only reaction I can muster.
posted by tron7 at 10:15 AM on January 17
Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax
Whoah. That... that's pretty crazy.
posted by tron7 at 05:26 PM on January 16
"I found Fido!"
Really enjoying that video.
posted by tron7 at 10:23 AM on January 16
Just disgusted with the Broncos.
posted by tron7 at 09:58 PM on January 12
True, we've been listening to a lot of Slayer.
posted by tron7 at 01:00 PM on January 11
This will follow Carmelo forever and the only reason we even know about it is because Carmelo gave KG the reaction he was looking for. If he had just ignored it I doubt we'd have ever heard about it. And it's such a funny line that I can't even work up any self righteous anger towards KG.
posted by tron7 at 03:06 PM on January 10
Aaron Sele 1 (0.2%)
Do you brag about getting a vote or are you too embarrassed to tell people?
posted by tron7 at 02:29 PM on January 09
It has been 12 years. The justice system, however flawed, did its due process.
Which means he doesn't go to jail, not that people can't make jokes about it. I find it pretty strange that you bring up Vick because a) people make jokes about it all the time b) he actually convicted and did the time for his crime c) there's a huge gap in the severity of the crimes. If you want a better comparison you should go with OJ. If the court of public opinion thinks you got away with murder, they'll never let it go. Though, really, a lifetime of jokes is a pretty lenient sentence.
posted by tron7 at 06:55 PM on January 07
Goodell wants your team to sign Tim Tebow
Most polarizing virgin athlete.
Certainly the most virgin polarizing athlete.