A couple things first, then perhaps a rant
I recorded what would be my first podcast on Friday. Now I'm just trying to figure out where and how I want to post it. Details will soon follow.
I think we are getting a dog shortly after Christmas. Probably a hybrid dog of some sort. I will keep you posted as well.
When you were younger, did you ever play school sports with that one kid who no matter how good he was or how much he won, he couldn't stop complaining and was just an all-around poor sport? That is ESPN's Sports Guy. His Red Sox win a World Series, his Patriots win 3 out of 4 Super Bowls (which still doesn't qualify as a dynasty in my book), and he still is a huge crybaby.
I'd like to know what rules were changed specifically for the Colts? If he is referring to the contact on receivers, then he should do research. That wasn't a rule change. The league just decided to enforce it the way it had been written for a change. And what makes him think he knows Peyton Manning? He makes comments that make Manning seem like a jerk, and like his teammates hate him. Wow, he must have done a lot of behind the scenes work to find that out. Wait a minute, he just hates Manning because he wants to. Look, Sports Guy, you can go ahead and admit that you have a man-crush on Peyton, seeing as how you obsess about him constantly. Just don't go writing about it, and cashing paychecks about it, cause that's unhealthy.
He is right about one thing though. The Colts have had an easy schedule thus far. I mean, did you see that cupcake of a team the Colts beat on Monday night? Oh, just a sec, according to SG, that game means nothing. Well so did a lot of the games the Colts lost to the Patriots, since most of those occurred in the regular season as well. And take a look at Tom Brady sulking on the bench during that game Monday night, then tell me it didn't mean anything to him, and I'll gladly call you a liar. It's one thing to be biased against a team. It's quite another to put forth that bias as if the rest of the Western World believes that tripe to be truth.
I used to be a faithful reader of his column. But he has developed the same disease that Vince McMahon, owner of the WWE (formerly WWF), has. McMahon keeps throwing the same crappy formula out on his Monday Night Raw program: take brainless, bra-filled women who can't wrestle, add two cups sophomoric humor, cram some big nosed son-in-law in as well, and balance 70% non-wrestling footage with 30% wrestling and voila, a wrestling program that has consistently disappointed since WWE bought WCW. The Sports Guy has put this formula forward: take repetitive Yankee bashing, add two cups "if you don't think this is funny, you just aren't as smart as me" humor, cram some unjustified Colts and Peyton Manning bashing, and a healthy dose of "I'm going to try to convince you the Pats are underdogs" and voila, a column that has been so predictable ever since the Sox and Pats became champs.
SG will talk about how the Yankees and most of their fans are so cocky and horrible. For a Boston guy, however, he sure has a lot of Yankee fan in him.