Top 25 in the era of USA Today

I hope I'm not d_b'ing:
Top 25 in the era of USA Today:
Discuss.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-top-25-series.htm

 

USA Today has an era?
It is to weep.

 

Lead story (on A1!) the other day was a training-camp runup on new NFL starting QBs. Paper must know its audience.

 

Doesn't ESPN have this sort of thing copyrighted?

 

There are hundreds of things I hate about ESPN, but this is one of the less-heralded things.

Everything is listed, or compared to five events:

Kirk Gibson's home run
Michael Jordan
Flutie's pass
Lake Placid
The Patriots

I hate how everything is compartmentalized.

 

Yes. Self-serving bullshit that basically tells the stupid masses that sports did not exist until we told you they did.

ESPN thinks nothing existed before 1979. USA Today thinks nothing existed before 1982.
The sad part is, there's a whole generatioon of misguided, misinformed sports "fans" who actually believe this kind of bullshit.
And worse still, there are a whole bunch of you misguided fools who are now sportswriters who have absolutiely no perspective for the history of sports prior to the mass consumption era of McNewspaper and SportsCenter.

 

I have not heard that one in eons. Too bad, too. It's a great one.

 

I've heard it called either "McPaper" or "the multicolored fish wrap."

 

Once they dumped Larry King, they lost me.

 

You know, Terry Bradshaw essentially did not play in the USA Today era.
He was in 10 games spread over the 1982 and 1983 seasons; in 83 he played one game for only a couple of series. (It was memorable, staking the Steelers to a lead that got them into the playoffs, but enough to knock out some of the great players who didn't make the list?)
Did they give him credit for making jokes on Fox?
Or perhaps for his performance in "Failure To Launch"?