Raising Your Kids To Be Cleveland Sports Fans Is An Act Of Cruelty
This is a pretty funny take on Cleveland sports and the insanity that rooting for a perpetually disappointing sports city can cause. The author, Geoffrey Redick of Deadspin commonly known as “Adequate Man”, was born in northeast Ohio. Some great excerpts from the piece: “I’m a career factory worker, hating my job but knowing no other life,” and “My son is only 2 years old, but already, he shouts, ‘Go Browns!’ like a champ. Every time, I am proud and ashamed, in equal parts.” As there is with most Deadspin articles, he uses some foul language. LINK
Michael Oher Says The Blind Side Was Bad For His Career
RSR Editor-in-chief (and my father), Tony Lombardi wrote about this topic yesterday, but I thought a look at it again might be necessary considering the post that Michael Oher put on Facebook yesterday. As Barry Petchesky of Deadspin puts it, “When you hear Oher’s name, you do think ‘oh, the guy from the movie,’ and not, ‘oh, the guy who has been graded as one of the NFL’s worst tackles the past two seasons, and was waived by the Titans after just one year of a five-year deal.'” Here is what Oher said in response to articles like this:
I see Negative News is positive News now days never said The Blindside hurt my career, Only said Offensive Lineman would rather fly under the radar!! We would rather be Nameless faces! Lol all good though
This is a classic example of an athlete backtracking on his comments. One of his exact quotes: “People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.”
But no, you’re right, Michael. Getting “downgraded” doesn’t mean that it has hurt your career. LINK
Break up the Ravens
This fits with our Flashback Friday theme. This article by ESPN’s Hunter S. Thompson comes way back from 2002, when the Ravens were getting ready to play the Steelers in the Divisional Round of the 2001 playoffs. He says, “Watching the Baltimore Ravens play football is like watching scum freeze on the eyeballs of a jackass.” I love it. LINK
WR Butler making his case with sparkling minicamp
Jeremy Butler was an undrafted rookie who impressed a lot of people in training camp and preseason last year. He ended up on the practice squad for the 2014 season. He is impressing a lot of people so far in minicamp, according to Clifton Brown of CSN Baltimore. Some of the people who Butler has impressed are wide receivers coach Bobby Engram, Steve Smith Sr., and Joe Flacco. Which is a pretty important group of people to impress as Butler competes for a spot on the final 53-man roster. LINK
Ravens’ west coast preferences and John Harbaugh defends brother Jim
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