Slate reads the message boards

[JayFarrar]

Didn't see this posted anywhere else. Apologies if it is a D_B.
http://www.slate.com/id/2173032/pagenum/all/#page_start

Some good stuff there. Sports message boards are out of control.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Bizarre fixation: Razorback fans still can't get enough of Mitch "Mr. Interception King" Mustain, the former Arkansas QB who, before transferring to USC, famously called Houston Nutt a "dork." Although the message boards don't like Nutt very much, they don't like detractors like Mustain who cut and run, either: "[A]t least have the nads to say it to the coaches face instead of back-stabbing him before you come and after you left. You're not a man."

Oh how quickly they change.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

In suburban Cleveland, a HS football coach resigned at practice Monday and part of the reason is because the seniors were upset with him for taking many of them out with the team down 20 early in the fourth, making them think he was giving up on them. One player took his disappointment to the Cleveland.com message boards and aired the team's dirty laundry. Because of that, the coach resigned.

 

[D-3 Fan]

In suburban Cleveland, a HS football coach resigned at practice Monday and part of the reason is because the seniors were upset with him for taking many of them out with the team down 20 early in the fourth, making them think he was giving up on them. One player took his disappointment to the Cleveland.com message boards and aired the team's dirty laundry. Because of that, the coach resigned.

When a team is down by 20, it would take a pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-ass miracle to come from behind. In most cases with high schools, you can't comeback from a 3-TD deficit.

The coach makes the call if to pull them out of the game to prevent being embarassed or keep in them on the field. It took the seniors to ***** and not ask him to his face.

Good luck Eastlake North with the rest of your season. All because of a few bitchy seniors.

 

[crusoes]

And heaven forbid he gets other kids in the game than those whiny seniors.