Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Monday Morning Quarterback: Monday Morning Quarterback - Week of October 27 20...
Monday Morning Quarterback: Monday Morning Quarterback - Week of October 27 20...: Madison Baumgarner is having the month of a lifetime. If you do not know the name, you should. Not only does he have one of the best sports ...
Monday Morning Quarterback - Week of October 27 2014. Football is Michael Jackson. Baseball is Farah Fawcett
Madison Baumgarner is having the month of a lifetime. If you do not know the name, you should. Not only does he have one of the best sports names in the last 20 years, but he's also one of the best pitchers in the game today. The run he's having playing for the San Francisco Giants is something we haven't seen since Christy Mathewson in the 1905 World Series.
In his 4 career World Series starts, his ERA is just 0.29, he's 4-0, and has pitched over 30 innings with just 3 walks and 21 strikeouts. That is truly amazing. He's pulling off one of the greatest sporting achievements in the last 20 years.
And you know what the problem is? Football. He's getting beaten by football.
On June 29 2009, Farah Fawcett passed away. In the 1970s, she was the equivalent of Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, and Miley Cyrus all rolled up into one. She was on the poster of every horny teenage boy back in the day, plus many more creepy men in their later years. When she died, it was big news.....for 2 hours. Then Michael Jackson died and no one talked about Farah. It was almost like she never existed.
In today's information age, you wonder why it's still only about the big story. And on Monday Morning the only story is football. So what if it's the World Series and a man is having the pitching performance of the ages! Michael Vick is the new starting quarterback for the New York Jets, a team that is 1-7 and going nowhere fast. That Ben Roethlisberger threw for over 500 yards in a fantasy obsessed, diluted down defensive league because the rules are pitted against them on every single down. That the Seattle Seahawks seem to be having some locker room/team moral troubles. And that more players got brutally injured, concussed, and probably are sending themselves into an early grave every time they play a down.
On ESPN's Pardon the Interuption, Wilbon and Kornheiser talked for 9 solid minutes about football before they got to Baumgarner and the World Series. Am I the only one who seems to have a problem with this?
Listen, I'm not anti-football. I watch is like the rest of North America. I even played the game and played it well as I was all-city three years in a row. But there's something wrong here. Baumgarner is Farah Fawcett. Beautiful and trendsetting. Football is Michael Jackson. Brilliant at times but kind of creepy.
-Matthew Toffolo
In his 4 career World Series starts, his ERA is just 0.29, he's 4-0, and has pitched over 30 innings with just 3 walks and 21 strikeouts. That is truly amazing. He's pulling off one of the greatest sporting achievements in the last 20 years.
And you know what the problem is? Football. He's getting beaten by football.
On June 29 2009, Farah Fawcett passed away. In the 1970s, she was the equivalent of Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, and Miley Cyrus all rolled up into one. She was on the poster of every horny teenage boy back in the day, plus many more creepy men in their later years. When she died, it was big news.....for 2 hours. Then Michael Jackson died and no one talked about Farah. It was almost like she never existed.
In today's information age, you wonder why it's still only about the big story. And on Monday Morning the only story is football. So what if it's the World Series and a man is having the pitching performance of the ages! Michael Vick is the new starting quarterback for the New York Jets, a team that is 1-7 and going nowhere fast. That Ben Roethlisberger threw for over 500 yards in a fantasy obsessed, diluted down defensive league because the rules are pitted against them on every single down. That the Seattle Seahawks seem to be having some locker room/team moral troubles. And that more players got brutally injured, concussed, and probably are sending themselves into an early grave every time they play a down.
On ESPN's Pardon the Interuption, Wilbon and Kornheiser talked for 9 solid minutes about football before they got to Baumgarner and the World Series. Am I the only one who seems to have a problem with this?
Listen, I'm not anti-football. I watch is like the rest of North America. I even played the game and played it well as I was all-city three years in a row. But there's something wrong here. Baumgarner is Farah Fawcett. Beautiful and trendsetting. Football is Michael Jackson. Brilliant at times but kind of creepy.
-Matthew Toffolo
Monday, 20 October 2014
Monday Morning Quarterback: After Football - Monday Oct. 20 2014
Monday Morning Quarterback: After Football - Monday Oct. 20 2014: Back in the day (2 years ago), I used to watch football from 1pm to the end of the night game on Sundays. In total, I would work on my compu...
After Football - Monday Oct. 20 2014
Back in the day (2 years ago), I used to watch football from 1pm to the end of the night game on Sundays. In total, I would work on my computer while spending almost 11 hours in front of the TV. A typical day would be watching my beloved Buffalo Bills lose a heart-breaker in the afternoon game, then moving to the FOX Joe Buck/Troy Aikman 4pm late game, then move over to Football Night in America on NBC as soon as that game was over hoping to catch at least some of Dan Patrick's highlights before the 8:30pm game started and some country music singer would sing a sexy toon announcing that NBC is carrying a football game and they're going to kick the arses of the rest of the networks in the ratings war! I'd watch that game hoping for some excitement and then close my eyes and go to bed. TV and football were my best friends.
Kind of sad if you think about it.
Now, I still watch the Buffalo Bills no matter, but Sunday's are typically when we do our Writing Festival Readings, so after 4pm, I am gone to the studio to shoot and direct. Only when this schedule took place is when I realized that I really don't miss football all that much.
Eventually I might also weed myself off from the Bills games, but that is tough because there is so much history involved with myself and that team. I'm from the area and I feel for the fans. I literally would give one of my pinky fingers up if the Bills were guaranteed a Super Bowl win.
But in about 20 years, football will probably be a shell of itself so we might as well enjoy it while it lasts. I played the game successfully and learned a lot from it, but there's no way my kids are playing it. It makes no sense seeing there are so many other great sports to play. And this point of view has really only changed for me in the last 2 years. And if I'm thinking it, then there are tons of other parents out there in my generation thinking it too.
Those great athletes playing football now wouldn't be playing it if there were born in 2010 and not 1990.
Yesterday I watched what football is now in a nutshell. CJ Spiller, the extremely talented Running Back for the Buffalo Bills was sprinting down the sidelines in a Gazelle-like fashion looking like one of the greatest athletes on the planet. The Safety on the opposing team eventually tackled him down after a 53 yard run. Then Spiller didn't get up. He was carted off the field with a broken collarbone (painful injury - I broke my and I hurt like something) and is probably done for the season. He's great but he's now hurt. Would like happen in baseball, soccer, basketball, tennis etc...? NO. That's the point. IF you're a great athlete, you might as well play the sports that limit you getting hurt. So don't play football. And that's what's going to happen in the next generation.
So I'll enjoy my Bills for as long as they are around, but I honestly give the all and mighty powerful NFL only 20 more years.
Kind of sad if you think about it.
Now, I still watch the Buffalo Bills no matter, but Sunday's are typically when we do our Writing Festival Readings, so after 4pm, I am gone to the studio to shoot and direct. Only when this schedule took place is when I realized that I really don't miss football all that much.
Eventually I might also weed myself off from the Bills games, but that is tough because there is so much history involved with myself and that team. I'm from the area and I feel for the fans. I literally would give one of my pinky fingers up if the Bills were guaranteed a Super Bowl win.
But in about 20 years, football will probably be a shell of itself so we might as well enjoy it while it lasts. I played the game successfully and learned a lot from it, but there's no way my kids are playing it. It makes no sense seeing there are so many other great sports to play. And this point of view has really only changed for me in the last 2 years. And if I'm thinking it, then there are tons of other parents out there in my generation thinking it too.
Those great athletes playing football now wouldn't be playing it if there were born in 2010 and not 1990.
Yesterday I watched what football is now in a nutshell. CJ Spiller, the extremely talented Running Back for the Buffalo Bills was sprinting down the sidelines in a Gazelle-like fashion looking like one of the greatest athletes on the planet. The Safety on the opposing team eventually tackled him down after a 53 yard run. Then Spiller didn't get up. He was carted off the field with a broken collarbone (painful injury - I broke my and I hurt like something) and is probably done for the season. He's great but he's now hurt. Would like happen in baseball, soccer, basketball, tennis etc...? NO. That's the point. IF you're a great athlete, you might as well play the sports that limit you getting hurt. So don't play football. And that's what's going to happen in the next generation.
So I'll enjoy my Bills for as long as they are around, but I honestly give the all and mighty powerful NFL only 20 more years.
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