College athlete stupidity revealed...

Interesting stuff, esp. the photos. Don't know whether to be scared of the athletes for doing this stuff or for not knowing others can see it.

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/BIZ04/609220378

 

uh, every major newspaper in the country has done this story. not on those guys in particular but on the teams they cover. we've had a few SportsJournalists.com threads on it, too.

 

Tom Izzo, First Amendment scholar?

 

Or, in other words, "if it isn't fawning ass-kissery, apple-polishing, and incessant media slurpfests, I hate this stuff."

 

Yeah. It was because of one of the SportsJournalists.com threads that I decided I needed to make my myspace profile private. you just never know.

 

Hmmmm. Anyone else think the originator of this post is the author of the article? Hugitout just registered and first order of business was to start this thread? Riiiiiight.

 

Well, if chitown is right, the guy will be pissed at me here in a second. I say it's a dick move to write that story and run that pic. It's roughly tantamount to writing a story about the quarterback calling someone a fag in the lockerroom or blowing up some other bullshit non-story. It's not news unless it's new, and if he was smart he would save that pic until the kid shoots one of his teammates in a drunken haze and then use it. Enough with the gotcha bullshit that only makes them more wary of us.

 

Knoxville's paper went beyond that. They did a Myspace story back in August, and the Web version included links to every UT football player's Myspace and Facebook site.

 

You want to call out Johnny Athlete for dropping an n-bomb or calling someone a fag on their personal web space fine, but if Joe Athlete had a myspace page like millions others, I don't give a shit.

Now, you want to scroll through them and see if State U QB has 42 14- 16-year old girls as friends, stick it in your back pocket until the time he gets dragged into court for hooking up with someone underage. Then show your hand.

 

Note to God...

Thank you sir for allowing me to grow up and play college athletics before the era of the internet. It is only by your grace that me and a whole lot of others like me were able to do the immature, idiotic, silly, "thinking we're cool or humorous" type stuff that kids that age do in private and thus did not have to worry about sanctimonious and/or self-important reporters and wannabe reporters acting as if they are Woodward and Bernstein when they write stories about them. College kids do silly things,sometimes without thinking, and for the most part they are having them same kind of harmless fun most of us had.

Signed me.

 

What's myspace?

 

Another typical example of anti-gun journalists not knowing shit from apple butter.

Mike Bacon is posing with a shotgun — not a rifle.