Re: Again, Hall of Fame Snubs and Insults
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 3:35 pm
I'm not a big music fan so maybe I can't make the analogy make sense but it's pretty much the only thing that comes to mind.
- Some singer falls his way into 'making it', becomes known even though his talent says he should have never become famous.
- So another guy covers his song, changes the lyrics to "diss" him, and posts it on youtube hoping that it'll make its way to the famous guy and that he'll respond and the youtube guy will get more likes on his youtube page or maybe get his own record deal!
Sad, all the way around.
Florio: Never been a fan of his. Pushes odd agendas ad nauseam (Redskins name, for example). He's just a blogger (which literally anyone in the world with a computer and internet access can have a blog), but he went all in on doing it and got bought by NBC. Good for him. The main thing I like about his blog is that it covers transactions very well. If a practice squad player gets cut PFT has a blog post on it. Goto NFL dot com, espn, many other football sites and it isn't mentioned anywhere. So I've always gave PFT credit for that, in-between all their non-sense they still post what happened IN the NFL that day. Whether it's the 80th guy on the roster in the off-season that everyone knows will be cut soon anyways, it still gets mentioned.
Whitlock: Never been a fan of his either. The very big positive with him though is that he'll say things exactly as they are and a lot of times he'll be the only one to do it. I appreciate that, especially when 99.9% are going with the agenda and he says the truth. The negative is that he "nails it" a low percentage of the time and the rest of the time is spent fishing for controversy he can have an opinion on. Sort of what he's paid to do, but annoying, nevertheless.
- Some singer falls his way into 'making it', becomes known even though his talent says he should have never become famous.
- So another guy covers his song, changes the lyrics to "diss" him, and posts it on youtube hoping that it'll make its way to the famous guy and that he'll respond and the youtube guy will get more likes on his youtube page or maybe get his own record deal!
Sad, all the way around.
Florio: Never been a fan of his. Pushes odd agendas ad nauseam (Redskins name, for example). He's just a blogger (which literally anyone in the world with a computer and internet access can have a blog), but he went all in on doing it and got bought by NBC. Good for him. The main thing I like about his blog is that it covers transactions very well. If a practice squad player gets cut PFT has a blog post on it. Goto NFL dot com, espn, many other football sites and it isn't mentioned anywhere. So I've always gave PFT credit for that, in-between all their non-sense they still post what happened IN the NFL that day. Whether it's the 80th guy on the roster in the off-season that everyone knows will be cut soon anyways, it still gets mentioned.
Whitlock: Never been a fan of his either. The very big positive with him though is that he'll say things exactly as they are and a lot of times he'll be the only one to do it. I appreciate that, especially when 99.9% are going with the agenda and he says the truth. The negative is that he "nails it" a low percentage of the time and the rest of the time is spent fishing for controversy he can have an opinion on. Sort of what he's paid to do, but annoying, nevertheless.