Andrew Luck retiring from NFL

I see what you did there.

 

Yes, he does. Seems a little overwrought for a veteran prosecutor of America's noble second war in Iraq, though.

I don't trust sentiment much. Never did intrinsically and, of course, journalism trained me to distrust sentiment as a mechanism of manipulation.

 

This is the Mayor of Jacksonville:

Yeah, right dude. The only ones who get driven out of football by the Jaguars are their own players.
It should as no surprise that this guy is a Trumpie. That's a Trump-worthy Tweet.

 

A city entirely unworthy of a team.

 

giant stadium video boards though. You walk in there and it's like, "fuck, those are big! why?"

 

This has been a low-class org for decades.
Now the Colts get to rebuild the way everyone else has to - without a 2-14 tank job expressly orchestrated to draft Luck.

 

That was the first person I thought of when I saw that query. Luck was very, very good when he was healthy and on the field. Megatron was a gamechanger.

 

If you told me 48 hours ago that Luck was retiring, I would have never anticipated this backlash.

 

Of course not.

I just don't think NFL writers - whether we're talking about Magary or Doyel or Bob Costas, or even this guy Andrew Luck Retirement: What It Means | National Review - need to recuse themselves from commenting on Luck's retirement or the fan reaction to it.

 

Dude, he was a Lion.

Was he trying to change the game for an 8-8 season?

The biggest surprises to me are the players who are in the league and walk away before the big paydays.

The Steelers had a linebacker a decade ago that did this and the 49ers had a kid do this after his first session.

 

Backlash? Shit.

Cam Newton does this and he’s the next Avenger super villain.

 

Fierce criticism of almost anything gets hits if it gets into the right online bloodstream. Fierce criticism of Luck would, or of Some team being too low or too high in the AP poll. Shoot if one wrote a story fiercely defending football and arguing we’re not respecting the importance of team enough, it probably gets the hits.

(For fun, every so often my paper would run some guest column about how shitty kids are there days. And it always killed online. Most of the response was affirmative, with just enough, this is stupid to keep things going)