If there is one thing I learned this week it is that TO needs TO to help TO!!! His publicist has "25 million reasons" to be his friend and to save his life, but it is obvious that Kim Etheridge only cares about Kim Etheridge.
Is Bill Parcells going to rescue Terrell Owens when he is in need of help? No sir! Not if he is sleeping or it would interupt practice. Does Mr. Parcells honestly believe that all of the nation knew TO spent the night in the hospital, but he did not have a clue until 10 minutes the next morning before practice. PUH-LEASE! Then he treats what the world thinks is an attempted suicide as just another TO incident. Now maybe it was just another TO incident but at that time it seemed like a life threatening event. Something a good coach would know about, care about, have info on, and that he would have, should have helped the player. But that jerk Parcells didn't even talk to TO. He has been pouting and treating TO like he is not even a human since the day he arrived in Dallas. He more than likely drove the guy to the point of pill popping insanity and then shows no remorse after "that player" is getting his stomach pump.
Now back to the publicist. SHE called 911. SHE said he attempted to take his life. SHE said she was trying to take pills out of his mouth. Then SHE blames the media for blowing everything out of the proportion. SHE makes TO think that everyone is out to get him. SHE should have taken the blame. A good friend and publicist would have apologized for overreacting. SHE should have said "I panicked, I am sorry I thought it was attempted suicide, my mistake I just was so worried." Something like that would have actually made sense and cleared up the issue. Instead she blames the media and denies everything she said before and says "I forgot."
These are the people that are supposed to save TO. These are two people that are supposed to be his friends. And what if Terrell Owens DID attempt to take his life. Then he needs some serious help.
And not help from people who just want him to score touchdowns or can only think of 25 million reasons to be his friend.
Its too loud. The fans are too loud. Quiet Mr. Manning can't think. HMMM? Now the new commishy wants to look into putting speakers into all the offensive players helmets and have a microphoned quarterback. PUH-LEAZE!!!!!! This is the wimpiest thing I ever heard. You want to limit the home fans impact. Limit the impact the wotking stiff who drops a $100 bones on a ticket, then $6 more bucks on a dog and $20 mo scrills on BEER!!! You want to take away his impact and basically limit the home field advantage that has been exclusive to the tradition of football for years.
Sure the crowd at a basketball game inspires a team, and maybe a pitcher or batter get pumped when he knows the crowd is behind him. But what makes football's homefield advantage special is that the fans, the working man or woman, CAN impact and help his home team. Good fans know that being loud when the team is on defense makes it hard for the offense to hear their quarterback. Joe Schmoe feels like a hero every time a false start is called. I myself high five everyone around me and beam proudly "fan sack, fan sack!"
Now you want to tell me that the comish believes home field advantage should be limited to just giving the defense an emotional lift??? Well Mr. Goodall if you are going to do that than maybe I will just stay home. Seriously? What is the advantage of being at the game? To me it is to support the team, to be at a live event, and to FEEL like I am helping my team with my roudy noise. Now a days the product on television is better. I get a million angles, I can eat without going broke, I don't have to worry about parking, Instant replays, play-by-play, color announcing, and sideline reporting. When I watch a game on TV, I save money, am more informed, can pee without stepping in pee, and get to lay on my couch.
So why go to a game?
Because I want to scream my head off and help MY team. I want to be the 12th man! Don't let technology ruin the greatest tradition in football. The fans.
Reggie Bush seems like a good guy. His teammates and even his opponents usually only had good things to say about him.
I was watching Outside the Lines today and it was clear that he has been very charitable to his new home in New Orleans. Lending a helping hand himself and using his endorsement deals to better the community. Pepsi, Subway, and Adidas have donated large sums of money to the Katrina relief effort as part of their endorsement deal with Reggie Bush. It is very cool that Reggie and Ornstein would make sure that whoever endorsed Reggie would also donate to Katrina relief.
Sure this is a brilliant PR move by Ornstein and Bush, but it is a PR move that benefits everybody. Reggie himself has taken a very personal interest in how this money was used. Choosing and overseeing the reconstruction of several local high school football stadiums. Stadiums that were once flooded and covered in debris are now clean and green. Reggie Bush is making a difference on and off the field.
Off the field difference has not been all positive though. While Bush is rebuilding New Orleans and the Saints he may have left his Trojans in shambles. USC's future is in major jeopardy. Bush and Ornstein's relationship was undeniably violating NCAA rules and it was under the watch of Pete Carroll. I don't think this investigation will affect Reggie's play on the field. Even if he loses his Heisman (which I am against) it will more than likely only motivate him more on the football field. USC on the other hand could and most likely should face major sanctions and lose future scholarships.
The rise of the Saints and the fall of the Trojans is upon us.
Reggie Bush got ripped off. We are talking about one of the greatest college athletes of all time and this is all he got? New Era Entertainment and USC got the steal of a century. I am pretty sure Matt Leinhart was making alot more than that, and he would not have accomplished half of what he did without Reggie Bush.
So lets just call it like it is. Indentured servitude for the University, the Entertainment company, and the Pac-10. I am more appalled that this is ALL Bush was getting. USC, NCAA, the Pac-10 and the NEE should all pay Bush what he was worth and give him a direct percentage of all the money he earned them in the National Championship games and Heisman hype etc.
If you want to suspend USC and take away schollies or whatever. That is fine but don't take Reggie's Heisman. If anything Reggie deserves TWO Heisman trophies not one.
Something about living in Seattle and watching the Mariners drown in last place in the worst division in the American League just really builds up an appetite for football.
I love the Seahawks and the Huskies football teams, but the great thing about football is that I can watch any team and be pumped about the game. Last night I channel surfed between the Beavers pummelling of Eastern Washington on FSN while Seahawks were running all over the Raiders on NBC! The games really didn't matter one was OSU vs. EWU and the other was pre-season. BUT IT WAS FOOTBALL!!!
So much better than watching the Mariners lose a real close baseball game in the regular season. I love baseball. I even try to go to the desert and catch Spring Training. But when the season is over I am not shedding any tears and when my team is losing I start daydreaming of football real soon. Football is special. Hell I am not even sick of hearing about TO drama yet.
You don't get up early on Saturday to watch college baseball teams from all over the country play all day.
If I started singing "Are you ready for some baseball" at work during a regular Monday, I am pretty sure everyone would just stare at me. But we will get up Monday morning smiling on our way to work knowing that after the long day a football game between two teams we most likely could care less about are going to play each other. Its football.
I have tickets for the Washington Huskies vs. super power San Jose St. The two teams combined for a total of 5 wins last season. OUCH!! I can honestly tell you I have been thinking about this game every minute of every day all week. I have been losing sleep to see a couple of under achieving teams go at it. Sure it is the season opener and I have hope for drastic improvement from last season, but really I am just fired up to see college football.
Conversely I went to the Red Sox vs. Mariners game last week. Good game. M's won!! But the only time I thought about that game was on my way to it and I was wondering if I was going to be able to find free parking? I did. I have a small car. Saves gas and usually finds free parking.
That is the difference between football and baseball. One we enjoy because we are sportsnutts. The other we can barely live without.
You don't want to wear a motorcycle helmet because it is uncomfortable. Wouldn't a NFL quarterback be used to wearing helmets?
This was a very unfortunate accident. A young Super Bowl quarterback crashes his motorcyle and is in the hospital for days. Yet the sports world does not ache like they did when Jay Williams crashed his motorcycle.
Are we getting immune to motorcycle accidents?
Have you ever rollerbladed, mountain biked, snowboarded, or driven your car without wearing a seatbelt? Unless you are the safety police the awnser is probably yes. But again we expect athletes to be different.
Maybe nobody should ride motorcycles or maybe everybody should and wear lots of protective gear.
My brother-in-law is still living with the after effects of a two-month long feud with his mother about whether or not he could by a motorcycle. She refused him permission. He is 18 and bought one anyways. He gave her flowers and a note. She cryed.
Are motorcycles a death trap or an enviromentally friendly traffic beating wonder?
Yesterday I saw a guy on the freeway popping a wheelie in the carpool lane in his #### rocket. I used to think that was so cool. Now I just thought of Roethlisberger.
