Earlier in the week, fellow MSF writers and diehard Green Bay Packer fans, Amanda Lawson and Chris Calloway wrote an article to abate any sad feelings Packer fans might have had over their embarrassing loss to the New York Giants last weekend.
In the article they tried to pull the ever-so-cliche stunt of trying to look at the positives. It’s the oldest trick in the fanbook. Did your team not win the Super Bowl or not make the playoffs? That’s ok because “There’s always next year” or “Hey, Aaron Rodgers had a great season, so I call the season a success,” or, my personal favorite, “We have a lot of young talent coming in, so I see this team competing for years to come.”
All those statements are signs of repressed acceptance that your favorite team sucks.
Brady Quinn Replacing Tim Tebow An Absurd Notion
SportsCenter has centered at least 75% of its programming on Tim Tebow this season, and it seemed like even more this week. The coverage is extensive, but it usually shows him in a positive light (except for the best player of all-time Merril Hoge’s comments).
Some comments that were made this week, however, were just plain stupid.
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