For those of you NFL mavens who mock college football fans for showing up in great numbers to watch meaningless spring practice games, I would submit that showing up for an indoor event in your team’s jersey to watch a frickin’ draft is infinitely lamer.
Exhibit “A”:
ESPN’s gloating over Sanchez was embarassing. You’d have thought he was the #1 pick. Dirty Sanchez had only 16 starts, has a weaker arm, played with much more talent and a much more solid O-Line, was drafted lower and put up lesser numbers. He’s clearly better than Stafford.
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The ESPN guys had to declare USC’s practices as competitive enough to count as games played. That’s rationalization if I’ve ever heard such.
Does the guy have the tools? Sure. But, he made some pretty poor decisions, displayed really poor mechanics at times, and was surrounded with far superior talent than all of the teams he started against. But, don’t let facts get in the way. He just has a presence.
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Sanchez just has the ‘it’ factor. Forget about Stafford’s harder competition and 18 more starts.
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The crowd was embarrassing for the NFL yesterday. Booing everything, shouting over everyone, and just being losers. They really need to rethink that whole deal. And you’re right about the Sanchez Slobbering. Pathetic.
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Grown men wearing football jerseys acting badly……shocking! “Southern by the grace of God” becomes even more clear when you watch New Yorkers so consumed by the NFL.
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Hale’s got some great photos up: http://dawg-extra.blogspot.com/2009/04/draft-day-photos.html.
Please note the Miami Mullets fan and the well-dressed college kids in the penultimate photo.
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The JETS fans used to be a funny and cool thing to do during the draft but the more publicity it got, the lamer and stupid it has gotten.
It reminds me of Duke Basketball fans. Their students and crowds used to be rocking with original stuff but these days it is just….being lame.
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ESPN = MSNBC
Sanchez = Obama
“this feeling shooting up my leg”
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