Am I allowed to really like this Simmons column and also still be respectable?

Enjoyed the un-PC line about the players looking alike. Something that you can only slip in that way.

Liked the column, mostly because my daughter is nearly 2 1/2. After the Jets won last week, she was jumping around our bedroom yelling "J-E-T-S".

As long as he doesn't tap this well too often, it's a refreshing change of pace.

 

And the eight ball reference was great. Jeezum.

Sweet column. As for the notion he's turned into a softie because he's now writing what he used to bash ... well, that's what happens when you become a daddy. I'm not one yet, if ever, but I'd venture to say 99.9 percent of male sportswriters will take a stab at writing something about their kids when the right moment presents itself.

 

The same guy who feeds her ice cream whenever he wants to get her doing something. He shouldn't be so worried about keeping her off the pole ... he needs to keep her out of Jenny Craig.

 

Re: Am I allowed to really like this Simmons column and also still be respectabl

It's a great line, and it was even funnier when Chris Rock used it years ago.

 

Writing about your kids is a dangerous, dangerous thing. Mainly, because your kids are never as fascinating to anyone else as they are to you, and because most of the time your kid isn't doing anything that much different than anyone else's. Except that your kid's parent has an 800-word hole to fill.

It's worse when it's your first or oldest child, and you're writing with wide eyes as if you've just discovered cold fusion.

 

Really? So where's the reference point by Simmons? At least attribute it to Chris Rock somehow.

 

I think that the line has entered the mainstream enough that it doesn't need attribution.

 

I don't think it's that mainstream. Good line, but widely used? Not so sure about that.

 

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Ouch.

 

Enjoyable piece.