Cranky old man weighs in on football

JayFarrar · Aug 31, 2007

This guy might be an acquired taste, but for my money he's one of the best columnists going. Even if he is a cranky old bastard of a man.
This is from a column he did on reader submitted questions...

Q. Football is right around the corner. What are the prospects?
A. Y'all can go ahead but I'm tired of football. It's a stupid game played by stupid people and coached for a lot of money by doorstops. It proves our ape descent, showing that we still find it interesting or entertaining when a huddle of gorillas decide to go somewhere and a formation of baboons decide to get in their way. Same story for two million years. Nothing to do with territoriality or mock war. If the yardage really meant anything, they wouldn't keep switching ends of the field. In short, just a way for the unintelligent to kill some time, and for institutions of higher learning to abase themselves — to hoot their own hoity mission statements — by associating with it, even sponsoring it. Two of the big football success stories in our time are O.J. Simpson and Michael Vick, so you tell me. And the clowns of the show, making a mockery of it, are the little jerk-off field-goal kickers. Sometimes better-intentioned people get caught up in the foolishness, as happened to me one time for 30 or 40 years — OK, 50 years — but get over it if they live long enough.
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writing irish · Aug 31, 2007

Link, please.

wickedwritah · Aug 31, 2007

Good job, Jeff Nelson, posting JoePa's press conference transcript!

Editude · Aug 31, 2007

I thought Andy Rooney didn't like baseball anymore.

sportschick · Aug 31, 2007

Who wrote this? Spnited? Is there a link, a name . . . something?

Simon_Cowbell · Aug 31, 2007

JayFarrar said:

This guy might be an acquired taste, but for my money he's one of the best columnists going. Even if he is a cranky old bastard of a man.
This is from a column he did on reader submitted questions...

Q. Football is right around the corner. What are the prospects?
A. Y'all can go ahead but I'm tired of football. It's a stupid game played by stupid people and coached for a lot of money by doorstops. It proves our ape descent, showing that we still find it interesting or entertaining when a huddle of gorillas decide to go somewhere and a formation of baboons decide to get in their way. Same story for two million years. Nothing to do with territoriality or mock war. If the yardage really meant anything, they wouldn't keep switching ends of the field. In short, just a way for the unintelligent to kill some time, and for institutions of higher learning to abase themselves to hoot their own hoity mission statements by associating with it, even sponsoring it. Two of the big football success stories in our time are O.J. Simpson and Michael Vick, so you tell me. And the clowns of the show, making a mockery of it, are the little jerk-off field-goal kickers. Sometimes better-intentioned people get caught up in the foolishness, as happened to me one time for 30 or 40 years OK, 50 years but get over it if they live long enough.
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Yeah.....so?

Chef · Aug 31, 2007

Bean-O Cook?

BRoth · Dec 15, 2014

IU90 · Aug 31, 2007

Worthless without a link.

pseudo · Aug 31, 2007

You folks ever try this newfangled thing the kids call Google?

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