LeBron James and the Revolutionary War/GQ Interview

Cleveland has been a sour place ever since LeBron left. The Indians are in last place and the Browns are still the Browns. And LeBron left the Cavaliers a basketball team in disarray. They have a shot to be good but, they will have to work ten times harder this year and for years to come.

LeBron is leaving behind a nasty legacy in Cleveland. It all started with the ill-advised “Decision” on national television that was a slap in the face to all Cavs fans and Clevelanders alike. This resulted in Dan Gilbert’s infamous letter that riled up most of Cleveland.

This letter split the people of Cleveland into two sides. One side believed in the words of Gilbert. His putdown of LeBron was loved by this side of people. The other side was upset with Gilbert. They believed the letter was out of line. The fact that he is an owner makes this side believe that he can not act as a fan. They clearly do not know Mark Cuban.

This difference of beliefs has been seen before. A specific occasion is the Revolutionary War. However, this was a little more important than an athlete leaving his team (unless you’re Dan Gilbert). There were the Patriots and the Loyalists. Basically, it was Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger versus the Britain.

The question is, what is LeBron in all of this? What does he symbolize? He is everything awful about Britain. Accents, football that is not football, castles, and a Queen. I guess he also represents all the acts placed the Americans during the Revolutionary period.

Enough of the history lesson. LeBron’s interview in GQ is appalling and ironic. Ironic because GQ stands for Gentleman’s Quarterly. Last time I checked, LeBron is not a gentleman. No gentleman would do what he did regarding “The Decision”.

In the interview he also goes on to say how it would make a good story if he came back to Cleveland. I don’t think that many Patriots thought it would make a good story if Benedict Arnold came back on their side. Not as long as Gilbert is there. The whole $17.41 fathead situation shows how much Gilbert does not want LeBron back.

Whether you want LeBron back or not, buying his fathead is a bargain.

Ohio State, Notre Dame Make GQ List of America’s Douchiest Colleges

GQ List of America's Douchiest CollegesEarlier today, KVB tried to convince everyone that Ohio State and its 102,329-person capacity stadium is the best football stadium in the Big Ten. Well guess what? GQ thinks that KVB, Kirk Herbstreit, and the rest of their Buckeye brethren are douches.

In fact, in its list of the 25 Douchiest Colleges in America, Ohio State came in at #19, right between other notable instidouchions of higher learning Morehouse (#20) and Boston U. (#18).  

And wouldn’t you know it, the tagline for Buckeye douchiness according to GQ is “The Excessive-School-Pride-Douche.” GQ also says:

Affectations: Dressing for class each morning as if you were the offensive-line coach; writing prison letters to Maurice Clarett.
Overheard at Buckeye career-building workshop: ”You can put ‘Won a national championship’ on a résumé, right?” 
Most likely to: Suffocate a hapless Boilermakers fan with a giant foam Number One after offhand comment about how the marching band’s “Script Ohio” wasn’t all that impressive.
Honorable-mention excessive-school-pride institutions: Duke, Michigan, Texas, Penn State, Yeshiva University.

For the record — and this should surprise no one — Indiana did not make list.  Purdue, however, somehow escaped GQ’s wrath.  How about the “Wears-Plaid-Every-Day-Douche”…that would have worked.

Other notables on the douchy college list:

  • #25 Virginia
  • #24 Texas
  • #17 Chicago
  • #16 USC
  • #15 Notre Dame
  • #14 Arizona State
  • #13 Georgia
  • #12 Phoenix
  • #10 Colorado
  • #4 Harvard
  • #3 Princeton
  • #2 Duke
  • #1 Brown

* – Kirk Herbstreit photo credit: Year 2