In house LONGform from the Bucs

100,000 words is roughly 300 pages of a book.

 

That's a lot of data on one click. I guess breaking it up into parts would be too much to ask?

And some people will read it. Some.

 

The people who write these things do realize it's meant to be read, yes?

 

Every sports team has their cult following. Shit, maybe it's only written for the owner to show off to friends.

 

No, no. The point is these fking things are meant to be CONSUMED.
This isn't some zen abstraction for the writer.
It's not just this piece, either. Also that awful Tebow piece by one of the Longform Studs somebody posted, the one that painstakingly offered play-by-play of three-year-old games.

 

Reformed's friend must write short books.

 

I did say it was a minimum, of course ... but 60,000 words would be roughly a 200-page book, which isn't *that* short.

 

BTW, the 49ers put out their own LONGFORM! piece today. I'd link it, but I don't care enough to go looking. Maybe LTL can read it and report back.

 

Whew. That's a nice little press release. Pretty sure it won't have anything about the big bombshell of the ribbon-cutting, Goodell suggesting a strong-arm of the Niners into accepting the Raiders as a tenant.

It is an entertaining piece though because the writer's name is almost Penis. (Pentis.) That's as far as I got, or will get.

 

I was hoping for a thinkpiece about the quarterback's tattoos, but alas.

 

The same people who rooted for Patch.com to fail are rooting against the trend of in house LONGform.

Well, them, and Montana born, New York hating, Baltimore fanbois.

 

I just hope in house LONGform is around when Murdoch buys every media company on earth and replaces writers with robots. I could write me some amazing LONGform piece about Joe Flacco's eliteness.