Boy talk about hard to keep entertained, Nick. Sheesh. I read your post and all I could think about was your incessant boredom with last year's Superbowl (I believe it cam down to the wire with New England stopping Philly's last ditch effort to hang on to a 24-21 victory). And while I agree with you on the announcers (holy God would I love to take the ESPN sunday nite crew and bury them in wet concrete), etc. and that some of the players are more T.O. than Tillman, I ask you: so what?
Are you really not entertained by it? T.O. bores you? Chad Johnson's gold teefed proclamtions of guaranteed victory don't break through your blase atitude? What about Ron Mexico? Not funny? Really? Because I don't think it's an issue of football players (or any other athlete for that manner) needing to be upstanding citizens. We all know that a healthy number of them aren't. Would you suddenly claim Top Gun sucktastic if Tom Cruise feigned commision an infomercial (that's information in a commercial) proclaiming how intelligent he is? You wouldn't buy into it - he's an idiot, much the same as announcers and many players. But he still produces entertainment, just like a healthy number of players. Would I let my daughter date Michael Irvin? Of course not. Do I think he's a fantasticly entertaining man? Damn straight.
Now I want to make this perfectly clear: I am not advocating the intelligence, morality, etc. of these athletes. All I'm saying is that if you don't get caught up in how offensive (intelectually, morally, etc.) they are, it's actually hilarious. And it's starting to spread into other sports as well. Thos LeBrons commercials: brilliant! I'm sure baseball and hockey will come around, also. Baseball has the unfortunate downside of being so boring I get +3 boredom bonus (much like sharing a couch with Nick and his aura will grant) if i watch more than an inning. I haven't given hockey a chance since it 'came back" so I can't comment on it. But I think pro football players are great, be they Troy Brownian (Bingo! I got Bingo!) or prefer the Minnesota Love Boat scene. Either way, it's funny and I'll support it until it stops being so.
