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Chiefnj2's favorite sportswriter has returned. Caution - it is a very, very lengthy article. Nice analysis of college football schedules, the Vick situation and an NFC round-up.
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08-29-2007, 10:41 AM | #2 |
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I'm in the middle of it now, I missed his articles too. I like how in depth a topic he can get. He always makes great points. The Vick topic, and legalized animal killings for food, the NFL endorsing crossbow hunting "Hypocrisy note: Look who's advertising on a Web page extolling the cruel crossbow killing of animals for sport -- the NFL. Oh, that Michael Vick, he's evil, he's bad. But buy NFL Shop items to wear when you shoot deer with arrows so they slowly bleed to death!"
a bit dramatic, but poignant and true. Vick deserves to be punished, but someway and somehow it will be overkill, setting a tone and making an example.... |
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08-29-2007, 12:47 PM | #3 |
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I just noticed, this is his third article back. his second one has the AFC review and I just read his actual first one, and it has a great few paragraphs on the whole retired/pension angle for the NFLPA compared to other leagues.
Interesting.... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...7&sportCat=nfl |
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08-29-2007, 01:07 PM | #4 |
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08-29-2007, 01:11 PM | #5 | |
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and he's also more consistant and accurate than ANY SI writer. Did you read what he put together on the NFLPA and the ongoing pension debate? Good information and puts things into perspective. |
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08-29-2007, 02:19 PM | #6 | |
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08-29-2007, 02:24 PM | #7 |
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His criticism of the top D-1 schools is misplaced - he needs to be pointing the finger at the system. The schools are doing what they have to. It's VERY difficult to get anybody other than cupcakes on the schedule, because the system doesn't reward risk-taking.
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08-29-2007, 02:47 PM | #8 | |
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His points about the "unfair" punishment of Vick "losing" money neglects the fact that the money was paid to him for a service and he didn't deliver. The NFL contracts and, I'm sure, his endorsement deals included language that says "I won't do stuff like this". He did it anyway. His conduct is one of the things those deals are based on, if he wasn't going to live up to the personal conduct parts he shouldn't have taken the money in the first place.
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I liked the article, and I like how his articles read, they are pretty damn researched. I didn't read that part the way you did. I understood it to be less of "Vick's horrible" and more of "get a grip, people" stance. I don't think he meant Vick gets a pass by any means. He said Vick didn't deserve the endorsement deals because they paid for positive attention and these actions have brought negative attention. What GE said of the contracts I don't wholly agree with either, BTW. Paid to play football and his actions have taken that away from him, I'm not crying for Vick losing money at all. Did you read the second one about the NFLPA and the pension debates? That was more interesting to me anyway. I've been on this site before clammering for the NFL to take care of it's retired players and from the information GE was sharing (if it's all true, of course) it sounds like the NFL is doing a pretty damn good job of doing it already. |
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08-29-2007, 04:36 PM | #12 | |
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08-29-2007, 04:56 PM | #13 |
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He's way off base on almost every point of the Vick argument. I'm not angry at his stances, but they're uniformly misplaced.
Hunters overwhelming kill for food. Bow Hunters us bows to handicap the situation. Their aim is to get a kill shot, not to make the animal suffer. And again, they're collecting food. The whole thing about the suffering of food is irrelevant for me. I see a gulf of difference between accepting 'cruelty' towards a food source, in accepting a level of suffering for cheap and expeditious delivery of the foodstuffs, and accepting cruelty towards a sport animal simply because they don't amuse you any more. That seems integral to accepting that living things are our foodstufs. And on the 'loss of wealth should be considered in sentencing' is just elitist. It's stating that because Vick can make lots of money with his freedom, the time he spends incarcerated is worth more than the time served by some poor bastard. John Gotti could make $$ as a free man. A doctor who kills his wife could make more $$ with his freedom than Joe Trailerpark who killed Jolene Trailerpark. Paris Hilton could make more $$ with her freedom than Susy Lush who drive drunk with a suspended license.
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Okay well, ignore those then. His statement still stands that there are hunters can and do kill animals solely for sport and they aren't going to prison for it. |
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Ignoring the fact that dogfighting is illegal and hunting isn't, they aren't even in the same zip code morally. Dogfighting hinges on pain and suffering, the dogs kill their opponents. They don't KO them, they don't win by decision, they kill by inflicting trauma to the other dog. All for the pleasure of the spectators. There is no strategy or cunning like in professional boxing (at least sometimes boxing has those things). Hunters strive to drop an animal dead, one shot. They aren't looking to cause suffering and they definitely don't pit two against each other for their own sick pleasure.
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