This is Why

[Doc Holliday]

I no longer read Rick Reilly. If this is all he can get at the Super Bowl, then ESPN is paying way too much.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8914988/rick-reilly-wraps-weird-wacky-wild-super-bowl

 

[steveu]

Probably wrapped up in his hotel room watching NBA every night he should have been filing stories.

I assume this is the only thing he filed from the Super Bowl?

 

[Doc Holliday]

To be fair, Reilly did a pretty fair column on Kaepernick being adopted a week earlier, intertwining his own experiences with an adopted child into the story to bring some real and personal perspective to it. It wasn't epic but it was a decent read.

Unfortunately, a week later, all he had was ****.

 

[boxingnut4324]

My problem with Reilly these days is that he'll write a column once every 4-6 weeks that's brilliant, but it's surrounded by so much other crap that he writes that you miss it.

 

[Versatile]

My problem with Reilly these days is that he'll write a column once every 4-6 weeks that's brilliant, but it's surrounded by so much other crap that he writes that you miss it.

Prove it.

 

[slc10]

That is a good story by Reilly. I will give him the benefit of the doubt in the fact that he works for ESPN. When you work for them it is different.

 

[BTExpress]

Misspelled Katharine McPhee. But then, so does almost everybody.

 

[FileNotFound]

More than any other player, Ed Reed, the dead-mortal-lock Hall of Fame safety for the Ravens, was beside himself with glee afterward, pounding his salt-and-pepper hair in disbelief at what they'd just achieved.

"Oh man!" he kept yelling. "Oh my God! Is it real? Is it real? In the 504 [area code]! … Baltimore! Baltimore! We won it in paradise!"

You know people are happy when Baltimore gets called paradise.

Wait, was he calling Baltimore "paradise," or was he calling the 504 (New Orleans) paradise?

 

[Steak Snabler]

More than any other player, Ed Reed, the dead-mortal-lock Hall of Fame safety for the Ravens, was beside himself with glee afterward, pounding his salt-and-pepper hair in disbelief at what they'd just achieved.

"Oh man!" he kept yelling. "Oh my God! Is it real? Is it real? In the 504 [area code]! … Baltimore! Baltimore! We won it in paradise!"

You know people are happy when Baltimore gets called paradise.

Wait, was he calling Baltimore "paradise," or was he calling the 504 (New Orleans) paradise?

Reed is from New Orleans, so I'm guessing the latter.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

No, this is WHY?:

 

[Norrin Radd]

To be fair, Reilly did a pretty fair column on Kaepernick being adopted a week earlier, intertwining his own experiences with an adopted child into the story to bring some real and personal perspective to it. It wasn't epic but it was a decent read.

Unfortunately, a week later, all he had was ****.

No, the Kapaernick column was garbage as well.

 

[FileNotFound]

More than any other player, Ed Reed, the dead-mortal-lock Hall of Fame safety for the Ravens, was beside himself with glee afterward, pounding his salt-and-pepper hair in disbelief at what they'd just achieved.

"Oh man!" he kept yelling. "Oh my God! Is it real? Is it real? In the 504 [area code]! … Baltimore! Baltimore! We won it in paradise!"

You know people are happy when Baltimore gets called paradise.

Wait, was he calling Baltimore "paradise," or was he calling the 504 (New Orleans) paradise?

Reed is from New Orleans, so I'm guessing the latter.

That was how I read it too.

 

[Doc Holliday]

No, the Kapaernick column was garbage as well.

I won't argue that point. I was trying to be fair/nice. Maybe I was too nice. :-[

 

[Versatile]

The Colin Kaepernick column was worse than this one. This is lazy. That was moralizing, insensitive and over-the-top horse****.

 

[Kid Presentable]

Saw Reilly in the hotel gym at the Super Bowl. He was wearing one of those ironic shirts that says, "Call My Agent," which isn't so ironic with Reilly, given that he has an agent and all.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The Colin Kaepernick column was worse than this one. This is lazy. That was moralizing, insensitive and over-the-top horse****.

Fair enough. I thought producing a Notes column from the Super Bowl was just lazy as ****.