Comedy!

It is not the forte of the sportswriter generally. Sure you may have a King Kauffman here or there, but there are a whole lot more Jay Mariotti's. And I found one "mini-jay" today going by the name of Bob Ford:

All these years, I thought GQ stood for Gentleman's Quarterly, but when the magazine came out with its exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Donovan McNabb this week, it's obvious the initials stand for Gone Qwazy.

Ouch.

Because that's where McNabb has gone. Not Washington, D.C., or Landover, Md. But Qwazy, USA, Zip code 55555.

So...you're gonna keep going with that joke huh?

And then there's the barfing. Admittedly, a lot of the legend associated with whether McNabb did or did not lose his Keeblers in the Super Bowl hinges on the recollection of Freddie Mitchell, who has a little Gone Qwazy in him, too.

Wow, you really want to hammer this thing home...well comedy of three's I guess.

Case Closed!

Sometimes...

I pick on an article, not because it has facts wrong, or an ill-informed opinion, but because I just didn't like how it was written. Who am I to judge a professional writer? I don't know what the qualifications of a media critic should be, but I have a 10th grade education from a school that was the focus of a documentary on basketball. Seems qualified enough to me. So this article doesn't come from the usual suspects. It was posted on Salon.com by a new writer to my blog, Steve Almond. There's nothing wrong per say with the column, just the ending struck me as being...off:

The hit TV series based on Bissinger's own book is the quintessential example. Way back in the pilot episode, the star quarterback suffered a paralyzing spinal injury. The next week, his teammates were back in action, ready to "play through the pain" and prove themselves in battle. And we were there to watch – and cheer.

This is probably over-picky but it just kinda cuts the article off, without an ending. Maybe that's just me.

No case to close here really.

Best Column Title Ever...

Alex Akita from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote this article with a great title that you can read here.

This post is really unfair

Alright so I know going through a sports columnists archive to rip predictions is probably really unfair and could be done to EVERY single one, but I'm making an exception for Ray Ratto here since I fully believed in this article. I mean I believed every last letter of it and had a mini-celebration in my head. Here it is
Reading this now is pretty much masochism for me. If you were too lazy to click the link I'll explain. The article came out week 4 after the 49ers had trounced the Rams 35-0 and were a 3-1 team two games up in the division with wins over all the other division teams. As Ratto says:
This might be just the Rams game talking, but fact is, the 49ers clinched a playoff berth with their 35-0 victory Sunday.
And I bought it. I mean logically it seemed there was no way they could fail. As Ray points out, the bar for winning the NFC west was so low that the niners could "trip over it."
Last week, the 49ers were officially knocked out of playoff contention, though they were on a respirator for the two weeks prior. Again I point at this article not to make fun of Ratto, but more to make fun of myself. Because as many times as I've learned not to trust sports columnists, I did. And now, I feel like a jackass for it.
BTW the Niners actually beat Arizona twice this year and are now 2-0 this year vs. the defending NFC champions. Can't they get a smaller trophy for that? Or maybe a certificate of participation? Where's the use of the transitive property? If team A beats team B two times in a row and team B is NFC champion, then team A should be the best team in the Conference. There you have it. The Niners are the best team in the NFC. CASE CLOSED!!!!