Yes, Gene Wojciechowski is indeed a schmuck
by BigBlueShoe
on May 22, 2008 10:49 AM EDT
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I think we can all agree that Gene Wojciechowski is a complete jerk off, regardless of whether his intention with his crap article, which bashes Indianapolis getting the Super Bowl in 2012, was a genuine dislike of the Midwest or just another ESPN hack piece designed to get people mad so they hit their site. Either way, Wojciechowski proves once again that ESPN employs lots of really stupid people to cover the NFL. The last line of the piece is my favorite:
I would have voted for New Orleans. I would have voted for Glendale. For San Diego. For Mexico City. I would have voted for anyplace where you can't buy a snowblower.
Instead, we got Indianapolis. Congratulations. Here's hoping for an NFL labor strike in 2011. Gene Wojciechowski is the senior national columnist for ESPN.com. You can contact him at gene.wojciechowski@espn3.com.
Wojciechowski also says that the Super Bowl is a "reward" for the two teams playing in it, and sending teams to the Midwest does not count as such a great reward. It's a silly notion to view the Super bowl itself as a reward. When you win the Super Bowl, there's a reward, but ask the Bears or Patriots if they feel "rewarded" getting their butts kicked in front of billions of people. Ask the Bills of the 1990s if those four Super Bowl loses were "rewards."
Wojciechowski puts the icing on the cake by stating that holding a Super Bowl in a foreign country, over a city in the USA, just because of the friggin' weather actually makes sense. I mean seriously: Mexico City? Morons like Gene are why we fans may never see a Super Bowl in Lambeau Field, Soldier Field, or the new Yankee Stadium. Little sissy Marys like Gene Wojciechowski think it's too cold, even though guys like Wojciechowski will still cover the game from a climate controlled press box regardless of whether the game is in Miami or Anchorage, Alaska. There's a reason the 1958 Championship is considered the best football game ever played.
It was outdoors. In the cold. And we loved it!
Gene Wojciechowski doesn't like football because he doesn't like cold weather. It's just that simple. Anyone who doesn't like cold weather does not like football. This begs the question: Why is Wojciechowski writing about something he clearly doesn't like?
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Your comments about the 1958 Championship are exactly my thoughts on the matter. Most anyone who’s a football fan considers that one of, if not THE, all time classic games in NFL history. Most diehard fans also say some of the best games are played in the midst of nature’s wrath. Yet when it comes to the Super Bowl, if it’s not in just the right place, the sports media whines. The Super Bowl was in Jacksonville not long ago, which is a pretty warm place, yet the media bitched non-stop about how much it sucked there.
And it’s only the media bitching, because the people who are actually there to see the game don’t care where it’s being played. They’re there to see the game, get some good grub, tailgate, get drunk, etc…things that can be done in any decent sized city. Indianapolis has one of the best downtowns you’ll find in a city its size, and it’ll be more than capable of handling the Super Bowl. I can’t really see how they could offer so so so much less than Detroit or Jacksonville or Glendale or Arlington.
by JaysonAych on
May 22, 2008 11:36 AM EDT
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Forgot to mention the reward part…the players don’t give a damn where the game is held either. They just want to be in the Super Bowl. That’s the entire portion of the reward…playing in the championship game on the world’s biggest stage. They’re much too busy preparing and planning to care where the latitude and longitude of the playing field is.
It’s the game played AFTER the Super Bowl in Hawaii where the premier players are reward by the locale, not the Super Bowl.
by JaysonAych on
May 22, 2008 11:39 AM EDT
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Has he?
Has this idiot even been to Mexico City? I mean the pollution there is so bad you can barely breathe!
Although nothing against Mexico because most of it is very nice and I personally think Spanish is a better language than French and god knows I love a lot of women from Mexico!
by MasterRWayne on
May 22, 2008 12:00 PM EDT
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Also...
I say the team with the best record gets to play the SB in their home stadium. This would add extra importance to the regular season, do away with almost all “meaningless games” during weeks 15-17 by adding the importance of home field during the SB.
by MasterRWayne on
May 22, 2008 12:02 PM EDT
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anyone who doesn't like cold weather
doesn’t like football??? You got to be kidding, I hope, because the most dumbest thing you’ve ever posted..EVER.
In Romo we Trust
by Terry on
May 22, 2008 3:48 PM EDT
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Suck it Gene
At least we have Dennis Hopper on our side.
by ThirtyOne on
May 22, 2008 4:02 PM EDT
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Well...
Hopper is a total dork now. How does the image of 60’s “counter culture” go from that to doing commercials for retirement investments. Zzzzzzzz wake me up when Hopper becomes cool again.
by MasterRWayne on
May 22, 2008 4:49 PM EDT
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True Romance
Hopper earned lifetime cool status in my book with the scene he did with Christopher Walken in True Romance.
by ThirtyOne on
May 23, 2008 7:50 AM EDT
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It is a shame that most of the people who get to go to the Super Bowl are rich celebrities and corporate idiots who don’t really care about the game. They’re the ones so worried about cold. The REAL fans and the players would have no problem playing in Soldier Field, Lambeau Field, Ralph Wilson, etc.
by MrNFL on
May 22, 2008 9:41 PM EDT
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