It’s the same reason why everyone keeps saying Brady is leaps and bounds better than Manning. It’s basic psychology, people inherently root for the guy that isn’t given a chance to outperform the guy that it’s expected from. You think there’d be any argument at all if Brady was the 1st round pick and Manning was the 6th? Same thing happened with Romo. They were going through so many QBs then decided on Bledsoe because he was supposed to be the first round pick and was supposed to be the savior. When he wasn’t playing well (and that team wasn’t nearly as talented as it is now) Romo the unsung “hero” that nobody knew about came in and everyone loved him because they could relate to him more. When Brees was ousted from S.D. you really couldn’t blame them. I liked Brees there and I thought they might’ve made a mistake, but they had Rivers (high pick that everyone hates) getting paid alot to sit around. Notice how everyone hates Rivers and loves Brees? Kurt Warner over Matt Leinart is the same scenerio. It’s a better story for the media to cover it as “A guy just like you can live his football dream!” If Pennington stayed in New York and had the exact same year of course they’d be ragging on him per usual, but since it was Favre you’re seeing heads roll. It’s so predictable how they do this every year. I garauntee you Matt Ryan will be experiencing the same thing especially if his team fails to make the playoffs. There’ll be a ton of “I told you so!” going on there. I’m pretty sure if Leftwitch or Harrington had that supporting cast they’d perform as well. Maybe a little better or a little less, but the darlings of the NFL and media are always the come from behind type.

that everyone loves hearing about the Cowboys, T.O., and Brady all of the time. But that’s not true. The Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since Clinton was in office. About three or four presidential elections have occured, and the Cowboys still don’t have a playoff win. The media loves guys like T.O. and Ocho-Stinko because they give them stories while the hate guys like Marvin don’t want to respond to game-related questions. They bait athletes into saying something damaging or controversial about themselves or their teams. Brady gets a lot of media attention because of what monsterbox said: he was an underdog who succeeded in the NFL and the media loves stories like his and Favre’s.

Every team is either Super Bowl bound or completely inept after a win/loss, but the media just loves to do it more for the Cowboys. Its a few games away, but there is a chance out there that the Colts could play the Ravens or the Eagles. How about you let us hear about the good things the relevant teams are doing!!! I want to know what we have to look out for, but instead we get to wonder if Wade Phillips will keep his job. Every. Single. Day.

Oh, and if Brett Favre takes more than a week to retire and we have to go through another offseason of constant Favre talk, I’ll kill myself.

Thank God for blogs.

Funny stuff!