I have to stop listening to ESPN

by shake n bake on Aug 20, 2008 3:28 PM EDT Comment 14 comments

I subjected myself to ESPN's Football Today power rankings by Jeremy Green and big surprise I came away rant ready.

His top 3 were ranked

1. San Diego Chargers

2. New England Patriots

3. Indianapolis Colts

That's not awful, I can deal. Until I listened to his convoluted and contradictory reasoning.

At three the Indianapolis Colts. Not ahead of the San Diego Chargers who have absolutely dominated the Indianapolis Colts. Dominated them. Colts fans can't complain on this one. You guys are the three team. Look at the teams that have owned the series. The two teams ahead of you. The San Diego Chargers, The New England Patriots, they have dominated the series against the Colts.

Um, Jeremy.

The Colts have played the Chargers three times in the last 4 years. The Chargers won three, including two last year. The Chargers 1st win of the 3 was against the 13-0 Colts team that looked totally disinterested after locking up the #1 seed. Besides that game was 3 years ago. There is so much roster turnover that looking at matchups more than a year or two back is useless. The Patriot's ran up a good record vs the Colts for a while but here's the series in the last 3 years.

Colts 3-Pats 1

Those two Chargers games last year? The Chargers won by a total of 6 points. Combined they won by less than a TD. Both games ended with the Colts in the redzone in the closing seconds with a chance to take the lead. A missed 30 yard FG and a perfectly defensed TD pass to Addai by Shaun Phillips is all that stood between the Colts and two wins vs the Chargers.

But Shake, You can't play what ifs. The team wins or it doesn't.

Ok, fine. I can see that line of reasoning. If that's your philosophy I can understand it. On to #2

The New England Patriots....You did not win a Superbowl title last year, so don't tell me the Patriots are not a beatable football team and the team that had them beat, The San Diego Chargers, my number one team on the Green Elevator. If LT is on the field, If Antonio Gates is on the field, the New England Patriots don't have a chance to go 19-0, because they would not have been playing in Superbowl XLII. That game came down to red zone offense that's the reason the Chargers lost and 2 of the top 5 weapons in the redzone did not play in that football game.

(Turns off Podcast)

(Unsubscribes)

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Shake don’t let the ESPN wantabes get to you, after Manning gets back and the team has their rhythm going and goes out and totally destroys both the Chargers led by loud mouth Rivers (which will be huddling on the sideline with his coaches crying after the third quarter) and the Pats with video man and baby maker, then you can send Green a dish of crow compliments of the Colt fans.

by Ufanforreal on Aug 20, 2008 4:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Rankings

The order doesn’t bother me that much. It’s the reasoning.

Say true things and use consistent logic, that’s all I ask, it’s not that hard.

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine

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by shake n bake on Aug 20, 2008 4:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Can you actually buy crow anywhere? Like, could I send some to the Patriots, care of everybody?

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by MonkeyBusiness on Aug 20, 2008 4:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’ll chip in for that!!!

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by peytonsthebest on Aug 20, 2008 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A little harsh, don't you think?

"I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was important -- like a league game."----Dick Butkus

by standingpat on Aug 21, 2008 5:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

now, now

don’t go all sensitive…its just a JOKE. lol

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by peytonsthebest on Aug 22, 2008 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Greene is a Colts hater

He has been for years. I can’t listen to him or read anything he writes because he is always such a hater. He passes it off as the professional opinion of a former (must not have been very good…) NFL scout, but he so consistently downplays the talent of the Colts and picks against them that the truth has become obvious. Somewhere, somehow, someone with a big blue horseshoe on his helmet made Jeremy Greene cry and he’s never gotten over it.

by jedye on Aug 20, 2008 5:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hehe

He probably used to scout QB’s for the Colts before Polian was brought in.

by SeattleColt on Aug 20, 2008 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

last year's

losses to San Diego were a joke. The Colts hardly took any of their players out west for that one. And, still only lost due to our kicker’s missed field goal. And, the New England game was without Harrison, and Gonzales missed most of the game after being injured. And, they still dominated the game for more than three quarters. Jeremy Green doesn’t seem too bright, but those are the facts. If the Colts are even relatively healthy this year, they will destroy those two teams.

by Ayrshire on Aug 20, 2008 8:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Last year..

was last year..let’s not all cry over spilled milk over here…it’s one sh*theads “professional” opinion. Half the writing on this site and PatsPulpit is better than the drivel he writes…..Colts , Chargers, Pats..blabadee f’n blah…..let’s play some f\ootball already. I need to see me some Patriots-Colts rivalries renewed….Brady-Manning…Moss-Harrison…Addai-Maroney(Morris, Faulk, Jordan) … Seymour-Freeney…Sanders-Harrison…….stop whining about rankings ladies……
Hey, I heard they took Manning’s sac out - who’s gonna t-bag the offensive line after games now?

Just thought I’d stir a little sh*t up - I’m pretty bored right now..
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by OneMore on Aug 20, 2008 9:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Seconded

Let’s play some damn football already.

Speaking of sacs, Tommy Boy should really consider a castration before he gets himself into real trouble. Gisele has two younger sisters, and they’re both hotter than she is….

by ctnyc on Aug 20, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Last Year

was last year. The Patriots, Chargers, and Colts are all very different teams. The Patriots don’t have Samuel, Gay, or Stallworth. The Chargers don’t have Turner. We have Rhodes and our rookies.

It’s a good thing the pros aren’t decided by polls like college.

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by Colts Homer on Aug 20, 2008 11:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ESPN blows

I’ve stopped watching and listening for the most part. It’s like National Treasure, or one of The Mummy movies. A bunch of colors and bright lights and noises to make people go “oooh, ahhh,” and covers up the fact that the leading actors are just some douchebags. The whole point is to cater to the 80% of the sports fans who are morons and can’t make judgments for themselves or don’t know what the hell is going on. It’s meant to create drama and controversy. They don’t report and they don’t give true opinions. All ESPN cares about is entertaining people, so listening to what their commentators say is like getting your news from The Onion.

ESPN is just another example of something that started off pure, then got too big for its own britches, it turned into something that was all about making money and catering to a larger audience. Thus, they end up alienating their core audience, who made them big in the first place. Douchebags.

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by shonuff on Aug 21, 2008 7:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs