The SaniTERRYum X: A Call to Chicagoan Arms
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The SaniTERRYum X: A Farewell to Chicagoan Arms
Posted: April 11, 2012 by Terry Carlton in Baseball, Basketball, Columns, Football, Hockey, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, SaniTERRYum, Sports, UncategorizedTags: baseball, Basketball, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carmelo Anthony, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Staleys, Chicago White Sox, City That Never Sleeps, Football, Kyle Korver, New York, New York Giants, New York Islanders, New York Jets, New York Knicks, New York Mets, New York Rangers, New York Yankees, Rip Hamilton, The Big Apple
The SaniTERRYum III: Undrafted Precedents and Prejudices
Posted: February 21, 2012 by Terry Carlton in Basketball, Columns, Misc, SaniTERRYum, UncategorizedTags: espn, Jason Whitlock, jeremy lin, Linsanity, New York, racism, Tripping Olney
Undrafted Precedents and Prejudices
Oh, wow. Big shock here: racism, bigotry, and elitism in sports. Sports? No way! It’s these morons who give us intelligent sports fans a bad name. And THE WORLDWIDE LEADER IN SPORTS, no less. ESPN, you have a monopoly on sports. We get it. But you don’t get it.
Most people have no idea when they’re being racist or acting like a racist. In true ignorant form, they are completely oblivious to how they are coming across or what ideals they embody, but I can’t quite bring myself to letting them off the hook based on, for lack of a better word, ignorance. It’s ridiculous. It is NOT bliss, and frankly my dear, I DO give a damn. So should you. Not just as an intelligent sports fan, but as a human being with (not so) common (anymore) sense.
All these attempts by media minds to make jokes about Jeremy Lin’s race are pathetic. Jason Whitlock, ESPN.com, (I’m sure) a bunch of no-name sites and publications have all tried to pun their way to their readers’ sense of humor, all the while overlooking the beautiful simplicity of what’s unfolding before our basketball-loving eyes: Jeremy Lin is legit. As much as I hate the Knicks and will always hate the Knicks, there’s just something inside me rooting for the kid. But make no mistake, if and when he faces off against DRose and Da Bulls, he’s going to get handled. Handled. Derrick has a certain way about putting young, touted point guards in their place in head to head matchups.
Leave the commentary to the ones who have reserved the right to do so. You know, stand up comedians, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Seth Macfarlane, Saturday Night Live. These are the platforms for performing such acts of stereotypical tomfoolery. Sports commentators think they’re funny. They’re not. Unless you’re Tripping Olney.
An Issue of Self Awareness Compounded by A Spiritual Quarterback
Posted: November 18, 2011 by Mauricio Rubio Jr. in Football, NFLTags: Broncos, Denver, Football, Jets, New York, NFL, Quarterback play, Skip Bayless, Tim Tebow
I hate myself as a football fan. Absolutely loathe myself. I’m smarter than what I turn into on Sundays. I become a screaming idiot, hungry for the next concussion inducing car crash to occur on a frozen field in the snow. I root for kickers to have their comparatively smaller bodies crunched in between 600+ pounds of anger and athleticism in a cathartic experience of schadenfreude.
On Sundays I become a caricature of a football fan. I become base, simplistic, primal. I yearn for the running back to carry defenders with him into the endzone. I lust after dangerous collisions which are surely cutting short of the players that I care so little about.
My initial reaction to the Jay Cutler NFC Championship injury, “What a pussy.”
I become a moron.
Such is life as a football fan. I think we all toe that line, we all become something that we would never show in any other context (at least I hope not).
No matter how stupid I become during football games however, I will never be stupid enough to recognize Tim Tebow as a good quarterback.
If you want a true over the top account of the Tebow love, follow Skip Bayless. Re-watch the NFL Network’s post game coverage of last night’s Jets-Broncos game. Understand that the most polarizing figure in modern sports is almost a pure media creation.
Even I am contributing to the continued over-coverage of a quarterback with minimal passing skills and a whole lotta faith behind him.
But this is the situation that we as football fans find ourselves in. He’s here, he’s not going away for awhile, and we’re going to have to find a way to deal with him.
I should appreciate a player like Tebow more, considering I grew up in Chicago watching the parade of talentless Bears quarterbacks make a mockery of the position. Tim Tebow should be a player I root for. He’s basic, primal, instinctive and he tries really really hard.
I hate him as a quarterback. I hate the 3 second hitch in his throw, the stupid jump throw he executes every once in a while. I hate that the Jets decided to blitz on that last play, allowing Tebow to waltz into the endzone virtually untouched and perhaps solidifying his “legend” amongst his rabid fans. I hate that the memory of having drive after drive starting in Jets territory and failing will be wiped by a touchdown trot.
People will forget that the Jets had no business being in this game, that a real quarterback would’ve closed the door on them in the second quarter given the same opportunities Tebow enjoyed.
He’s an assault on my football sensibilities. His fans defend him as though he is a reflection of themselves. There’s no room to sit back and just watch Tim Tebow. Defenders call him an MVP candidate, detractors (like myself) wish him failure at every turn.
It’s agonizing to watch, especially when his victories are taken out of context. Especially when people conveniently forget what happens to “Tebow Bowl” when faced up against a good offense and a defense that can sit back in zone coverage and wait, like the Lions did.
I find that you’re either rooting for the canonization of Saint Tebow, or the absolute evisceration of Jesus’ quarterback. All the religious overtones are there and ripe for the picking. As I’ve asserted before, I don’t mind players thanking God, I have no issue with any religion. What I do take issue with is a player forcing himself into the forefront and pushing his beliefs down my throat, especially when that player is not good at his position.
He’s here though, and he’s not going away anytime soon. Well, unless the Bears absolutely destroy him in two weeks. I would be satisfied with that.