Wes Welker scores a touchdown on Sunday, drops to the ground on the snowy Gillette Stadium field and does a snow angel. He is flagged for a 15 yard penalty for excessive celebration. Should be the end of the story, right? Well in two days I've heard four separate broadcasters complain that it should have been allowed.
"It was just a snow angel." "It is Christmas." "Its just Wes Welker.""They should let that go." Those are some of the comments I heard. Why is the snow angel OK, but not dancing. Is it because Wes is white? I've always believed that if white guys could dance, then celebrating would be allowed in the endzone.
Every time I see a black player celebrate in any way, its considered excessive and offensive but when a white guy does something clever and resourceful, commentators politic to let it go.
I hate to be constantly harping on racism in sports (seeing as how i'm white) but it is so blatent and the NFL is such an egregious offender.
Rob
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
nice call
So normally I wouldn't bitch about NFL time twice in a row, but...
After all the bullshit that Bills fans and players had to say about their trip to Toronto, are we to believe that it's our fault for their crappy play? Maybe the cold football fans from the Rogers Centre decided to throw the football with less than two minutes to play in a must win game. Watching an entire Bills game can be excruciating at times but this one seemed to be on the right track. The running game was relentless, and I like most viewers assumed they'd stick with what works. But these are the Buffalo Bills. No one in sports can lose like this team. I can't think of any other sports franchise that memories that are attached with losing. We should have known. I wonder how long Losman can blame things, before he realizes that it might be his shitty play.
The Yankees, Mets and Red Sox are back pretending that there's nothing wrong with the economy. "Taxpayer field" is apparently going to after every closer in the league to make up for last year, while the Yankees are looking to scoop up all the starters. Meanwhile the Red Sox (and their fans) believe that the New York teams are trying to BUY their wins, even though they're doing the same thing, through the Asian market. How can they not think that they are in the same boat. So jack ass who's been a fan since 2004 said the Sox have a good farm system, but forget that the pin stripes brought up Jeter, and Rivera.
The NBA is still a love fest. And for F*ck sakes can someone, somewhere involved with these teams shut up their players. These guys say shit that that would get most people fined for tampering, which is apparently something they don't call in the NBA. As well as travelling. JayZ said in a interview that he would be going after LeBron James in 2010. You can't say that? Lebron said there was going to be a party here(NY) in 2010. You can't say that either. If I represented McDonalds, I can't be sayin I might go work at Burger King. Or that we might buy it. I know for a fact that the NBA has classes about how to act, what to say, behavior in public, television interviews. I just don't think these guys go. Or they don't listen. It's easy to learn how to tune out the teacher when you had a full scholarship to Georgetown, and graduated, but no remembers ever seeing you in class. The culture of the NBA is fraudulent from the get go. Guys that are thugs are glad to be rich and playing ball. The guys that grew up middle class act like thugs. And the guys that went straight from high school to the show talk like those first 17 years will never be overcome, even now as multimillionaires. Piss off! High school sucked for everyone, especially for those of us that didn't have Nike commercials the next day.
J
After all the bullshit that Bills fans and players had to say about their trip to Toronto, are we to believe that it's our fault for their crappy play? Maybe the cold football fans from the Rogers Centre decided to throw the football with less than two minutes to play in a must win game. Watching an entire Bills game can be excruciating at times but this one seemed to be on the right track. The running game was relentless, and I like most viewers assumed they'd stick with what works. But these are the Buffalo Bills. No one in sports can lose like this team. I can't think of any other sports franchise that memories that are attached with losing. We should have known. I wonder how long Losman can blame things, before he realizes that it might be his shitty play.
The Yankees, Mets and Red Sox are back pretending that there's nothing wrong with the economy. "Taxpayer field" is apparently going to after every closer in the league to make up for last year, while the Yankees are looking to scoop up all the starters. Meanwhile the Red Sox (and their fans) believe that the New York teams are trying to BUY their wins, even though they're doing the same thing, through the Asian market. How can they not think that they are in the same boat. So jack ass who's been a fan since 2004 said the Sox have a good farm system, but forget that the pin stripes brought up Jeter, and Rivera.
The NBA is still a love fest. And for F*ck sakes can someone, somewhere involved with these teams shut up their players. These guys say shit that that would get most people fined for tampering, which is apparently something they don't call in the NBA. As well as travelling. JayZ said in a interview that he would be going after LeBron James in 2010. You can't say that? Lebron said there was going to be a party here(NY) in 2010. You can't say that either. If I represented McDonalds, I can't be sayin I might go work at Burger King. Or that we might buy it. I know for a fact that the NBA has classes about how to act, what to say, behavior in public, television interviews. I just don't think these guys go. Or they don't listen. It's easy to learn how to tune out the teacher when you had a full scholarship to Georgetown, and graduated, but no remembers ever seeing you in class. The culture of the NBA is fraudulent from the get go. Guys that are thugs are glad to be rich and playing ball. The guys that grew up middle class act like thugs. And the guys that went straight from high school to the show talk like those first 17 years will never be overcome, even now as multimillionaires. Piss off! High school sucked for everyone, especially for those of us that didn't have Nike commercials the next day.
J
Saturday, December 6, 2008
NFL-Nice Fucking guys Lose league
As an avid NFL fan, I cringe at the thought of Toronto getting an NFL team. It would be an absolute failure. Oh I'm sure the team would sell out and make a ton of money but they would never be winners in the standings.
Football is an intense, physical and violent game. In order to win you need to employ playa's that exhibit all of these qualities. And when I say playa's I mean thugs, gangsters and loud mouth primadonna's. There is no way in hell the disgustingly politically correct citizens of Canada would allow our team to be so brash. And by brash- I mean BLACK.
If you don't believe me, take a look at our Toronto Raptors. The whitest team in a league dominated by black men. Even some of the black guys on the Raptors are pretty white. The Raptors regularly lose because of a lack of rebounding and aggresiveness. Well, thats what happens when you bring a knife (white euro) to a gun fight(Plaxico).
If we can't tolerate Sean Avery saying sloppy seconds, how are we going to handle Ray Lewis or Pacman Jones all of a sudden dining at the Four Seasons downtown with their boys. Abhor those guys all you want, but in the NFL, those are the type of guys you need to win.
Football is an intense, physical and violent game. In order to win you need to employ playa's that exhibit all of these qualities. And when I say playa's I mean thugs, gangsters and loud mouth primadonna's. There is no way in hell the disgustingly politically correct citizens of Canada would allow our team to be so brash. And by brash- I mean BLACK.
If you don't believe me, take a look at our Toronto Raptors. The whitest team in a league dominated by black men. Even some of the black guys on the Raptors are pretty white. The Raptors regularly lose because of a lack of rebounding and aggresiveness. Well, thats what happens when you bring a knife (white euro) to a gun fight(Plaxico).
If we can't tolerate Sean Avery saying sloppy seconds, how are we going to handle Ray Lewis or Pacman Jones all of a sudden dining at the Four Seasons downtown with their boys. Abhor those guys all you want, but in the NFL, those are the type of guys you need to win.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Bills in Toronto
So many fans are worried about Toronto getting an NFL team, except for the people that live in Toronto themselves. I mean we have pin drop silent hockey games, sarcastic basketball fans and barely present CFL fans. And these people clinging to Ralph Wilson's legacy think we are in the running?
Come on.
Bills fans that are from Canada don't want the bills moving here. They love going across the border. Drinking inferior beer. Since they were kids this has been apart of their experience. The last thing they want is the Bills getting all "Torontoed up"
On the other hand there are tonnes of NFL fans in here, but none of them want the team that ends up donning the first Canadian team's jersey to be the Bills. They want a team that will go up against the Bills. Preferable in a playoff game so that Buffalo can pull off one of their patented screw-ups that cost them the game.
Of course this the audition. Can we provide the same kind of moxie that Bills' fans have at home games? Can we wake up early on Sunday and drink plenty of booze in a piss filled parking lot? Can we find 75,000 people willing to do that eight times a year for an event that doesn't have ice, fighting, and powerplays?
Yes. And Buffalo fans should embrace it. Season ticket holders may be able to see nine game a year. The average Buffalonian can urinate on street that other people have heard of. They can see the inside of Canadian drunk tanks. They can rub in the faces of diehard hockey fans that Buffalo's team is way better than the Leafs.
*on a side note- to people on local Buffalo blogs that are making fun of the spelling of centre in "the Rogers Centre" please take a look at the name Sabres.
So people of Buffalo, go out! Act stupid. Do enough that will make for a great story later. After all, I've been to four Bills games, and I don't know who played, who won, or whether she was pretty, but it was a great story!
Jamie
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