The sports guys latest cowbell

Ken_AA · #1 11-09-2005, 12:25 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...x?name=simmons

I read his articles, he's amussing, but does anyone else think they would want to kill themselves if they were stuck in a room with this guy? Anytime something doesn't go his teams way he comes off as a huge prick.

Just my two cents.

Ken

RacersEdge · #2 11-09-2005, 12:33 AM

Who is he? The article was pretty lame. Why the bias towards the Patriots?

Edge34 · #3 11-09-2005, 12:33 AM

[ QUOTE ]
Who is he? The article was pretty lame. Why the bias towards the Patriots?

[/ QUOTE ]

He's from Beantown.

McGahee · #4 11-09-2005, 12:40 AM

[ QUOTE ]
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...x?name=simmons

I read his articles, he's amussing, but does anyone else think they would want to kill themselves if they were stuck in a room with this guy? Anytime something doesn't go his teams way he comes off as a huge prick.

Just my two cents.

Ken

[/ QUOTE ]

I feel the same way. Probably my favorite writer, but still, shut up already.
My favorite angle he takes is the: "Lets pretend the NFL changed the rules to help the Colts even though they didn't change the rules, but rather vowed to 'enforce' the illegal contact rule because they didn't want to admit that the refs screwed up in the 2003 championship game".

jacki · #5 11-09-2005, 12:45 AM

[ QUOTE ]
I feel the same way. Probably my favorite writer, but still, shut up already.
My favorite angle he takes is the: "Lets pretend the NFL changed the rules to help the Colts even though they didn't change the rules, but rather vowed to 'enforce' the illegal contact rule because they didn't want to admit that the refs screwed up in the 2003 championship game".

[/ QUOTE ]

He's by far my favorite writer, and this was by far the worst crap he's written in a long time.

I actually like the whole pro-Boston stuff he writes, because it's usually rational and fair.
But this column came off as bitter and petty.

Although he's right that the Colts still need to win a Super Bowl to be great.

Josh W · #6 11-09-2005, 12:48 AM

I love Simmons. He makes the work day bearable.

But yesterday afternoon, a buddy of mine asks what I think of the upcoming game, and I thought that Indy would blow out NE. Buddy responds "I hope so, just to see the ensuinng sports guy column".

I told buddy "I'll tell you right now what it'll be...it'll be 'so what, they haven't won anything yet!'".

Not nostradamusesque, but pretty spot on.

And as somebody else mentioned, the NFL didn't change the rules to help Indy. If anything they 'changed' the rules during NE's first super bowl to allow the mauling of Holt, Bruce, etc.

Even though I predicted Simmons response, I do wish he had had a little more class.

Josh

Ken_AA · #7 11-09-2005, 12:48 AM

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
I feel the same way. Probably my favorite writer, but still, shut up already.
My favorite angle he takes is the: "Lets pretend the NFL changed the rules to help the Colts even though they didn't change the rules, but rather vowed to 'enforce' the illegal contact rule because they didn't want to admit that the refs screwed up in the 2003 championship game".

[/ QUOTE ]

He's by far my favorite writer, and this was by far the worst crap he's written in a long time.

I actually like the whole pro-Boston stuff he writes, because it's usually rational and fair.
But this column came off as bitter and petty.

Although he's right that the Colts still need to win a Super Bowl to be great.

[/ QUOTE ]

I agree its his fan perpective that makes him unique, however come on. I'm a Duke fan and I would have never said stuff like that about North Carolina after those thugs... or I mean athletes.... won the national title last year.

"The NFL finally got there wish" vomit.

Ken

BWebb · #8 11-09-2005, 12:58 AM

He must have wrote this in the 4th quarter of that debacle. Worst Simmons article I've ever read.

Soul Daddy · #9 11-09-2005, 01:08 AM

I thought it was decent. Not great, but far from his worst. The intro was good and the "Footloose" stuff cracked me up. Sure it's full of the expected partisan crap, but if you read between his schtick he gives Manning and the Colts some credit.

holeplug · #10 11-09-2005, 01:12 AM

Ick. I love this guy's stuff and he usually pulls off the homer routine very well but he just sounded like a delusional bitter fan that doesn't want to admit his team sucks this year.

His cowbell stuff sometimes isn't the best though. I think he just writes that stuff in like 15 min. and doesn't go back and check anything he just wrote. I remember when he was working on his book during the NBA playoffs and he had a cowbell like everyday and he seemed to always use the opening paragraph with a "ok heres all the stuff I pulled out of my ass yesterday" when readers would fact check his stuff.