NFL Playoff Thread: Championship round

[Dick Whitman]

Even though 90 percent of the board professed disinterest, I thought I'd start a thread on it anyway.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Monday won't be a good day to be an inmate in Chicago.

 

[heyabbott]

Monday won't be a good day to be an inmate in Chicago.

Monday is corned beef hash night Cook County DOC?

 

[93Devil]

Muddy field in Charlotte and decent weather, for the season, in Denver.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Monday won't be a good day to be an inmate in Chicago.

Yeah, the guards are staying up late to watch the Royal Rumble.

 

[dixiehack]

Monday is corned beef hash night Cook County DOC?

Can't be as bad as the cabbage rolls at the Terre Haute federal pen.

 

[SnarkShark]

Gay joke? I didn't think Gronk had the mental capacity to go double entendre.

 

[Riptide]

 

[Riptide]

Still no way to downsize a photo while posting here?

 

[YankeeFan]

Enjoy the games...

 

[qtlaw]

Enjoy the games...

Damn, he's only 36; I was barely even starting adulthood then (well I had one kid and was married but still thinking I was a youngster). May he get the help he needs and hopefully the medical breakthrough(s) come soon.

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[BDC99]

I don't want the Pats anywhere near the SB but it sure would be funny to see Brady/Kraft on the stage after all the offseason BS.

 

[outofplace]

Truly disturbing stuff, which most football fans and SJ.com members will forget within a week.

 

[trifectarich]

Truly disturbing stuff, which most football fans and SJ.com members will forget within a week.

Anyone who has spent any time in NFL locker rooms has seen what the game does to these guys. This is one reason I hate Thursday games and even the suggestion that an 18-game regular season is a good thing.

 

[swingline]

Randle El also says -- despite his love for football -- that he wishes he would have played baseball instead. The CTE bomb is a slow-motion train wreck.

It seems the only safe positions to play football are kicker and punter.

 

[da man]

Randle El also says -- despite his love for football -- that he wishes he would have played baseball instead. The CTE bomb is a slow-motion train wreck.

It seems the only safe positions to play football are kicker and punter.

Disagrees:

 

[Rhody31]

Don't know if this belongs here or the journalism thread, but by noon every news outlet had the story about Patriots linebacker Darius Fleming. Last Thursday Fleming pulled some woman out of a car he thought was on fire (it was smoke from the airbags). He kicked the window in, got her out, and when another bystander came along to help, left to get treatment at the stadium, got stitches, played two days later. Didn't tell anyone. Teammates found out about it, Devin McCourty told reporters and it became the day's story.
Sometime in the afternoon, TMZ reported none of the local PDs had a police report of the accident. The Globe's Ben Volin said he contacted area PDs and got nothing, but shortly after a reporter said the accident was on the Walpole Police Log and they put out a statement confirming the accident.
Everyone in New England was crying about journalistic integrity of TMZ and Volin to report that there was no police report, but they weren't wrong, per se. It sounds like both TMZ and Volin called asking for accident reports involving Fleming but since he left before the cops showed up, he wasn't named.
I'm shocked Volin screwed up so bad. It's clear his reporting chops are limited to pressers and friendly sources, because if you don't know how to track down a police report you shouldn't have a job covering anything.
So the question is - aren't all the reporters who ran with the story just as guilty as Volin for incorrectly reporting? It's a one-source, take-my-word-for-it story that wcould have easily been confirmed. If you were an editor, would you run the story or tell your reporter to make sure it happened?
It bugs me because it seems, at least around here, pro sports reporters are the first ones to scream about ethics and "we don't root for any team" when someone questions their journalistic integrity, but when time comes to actually practice journalism they do a **** poor job of it other than getting quotes and using unnamed sources.

 

[HanSenSE]

@Rhody31 I can see how it wouldn't have appeared, though, if Fleming wasn't a responsible party in the accident.

 

[93Devil]

****, most of the stuff I see called "news" online doesn't even have one good source.