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Rick Derris
 Post subject: When sports are about more than the game.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:55 am 
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A little perspective for the upcoming weekend.

Great story. A little long. I nearly lost it while reading it.

Glad I didn't read it at work or I'd have to use the ole "I've got something in my eye" excuse.


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This isn't about Gene Stallings' retarded kid is it?

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Outstanding. Episodes like this show the times when sports can bring out the best aspects of humanity.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should make Terrell Owens read this and hope it makes a dent.

On a only slightly related note, earlier this year Greg Easterbrook (espn.com's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who's moving to overtake Simmons as my fave columnist) related the details of a conversation he had with a Nike marketing official. Easterbrook was asking him about what's next in the sports marketing arena since the NFL and NCAA have pretty much been tapped out and the guy said, without hesitating; "High school."

The thought, frankly, makes my stomach turn. Kids are already prematurely warped by SportsCenter idol worship and the thing about Friday night HS football games is the untainted sportsmanship and purity of it. I can't help but think that would be lost once Nike/Adidas and the like start infiltrating that playing field.

Done belly-aching now.

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You know that Nike High School football commercial with Urlacher and all those guys? The team they are playing is playing in (local) Arundel High School's actual jerseys, because Nike has outfitted them.

Speaking of untainted sportsmanship, this past Friday I saw kids from a JV Squad stomping the logo at midfield after winning 31-13.

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Nike, et al have been marketing to high school football for a long time. Surely not at the same level as you probably intended to express, but yeah.

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 Post subject: Re: When sports are about more than the game.
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Rick Derris Wrote:

Glad I didn't read it at work or I'd have to use the ole "I've got something in my eye" excuse.


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I'm glad I read this alone in my room. Wait...shit.

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On a only slightly related note, earlier this year Greg Easterbrook (espn.com's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who's moving to overtake Simmons as my fave columnist)


really? I find that dude to be barely readable. Also, someone who needs their head put in a vice.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
swiateck Wrote:
On a only slightly related note, earlier this year Greg Easterbrook (espn.com's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who's moving to overtake Simmons as my fave columnist)


really? I find that dude to be barely readable. Also, someone who needs their head put in a vice.


i loved him the first 10 times i read his column, but then it gets old quick.

but he did change the way i think about ceratin aspects of football, or at least confirmed a few things i thought. Such as overblitzing, punting when on the 45 and a few other things.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
swiateck Wrote:
On a only slightly related note, earlier this year Greg Easterbrook (espn.com's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who's moving to overtake Simmons as my fave columnist)


really? I find that dude to be barely readable. Also, someone who needs their head put in a vice.


Looks like Michael Musto, and is at least 17 times as big a fag.

anyone who would use, much less coin, the term "cheer-babe".... the vice is too good for him.

BLECH.

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Sen. LooGAR, Dogpuncher Wrote:
anyone who would use, much less coin, the term "cheer-babe".... the vice is too good for him.

BLECH.


Ok, hows about this: I'd like to recreate the scene in Dazed and Confused where Mitch Kramer throws the bowling ball through the car window, only that guy is sitting in the car?

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