Southern Man 45

Southern Man 45's Comments

Posted Tuesday April 07, 2009, About: Daly to start comeback in Spain
Come back from what?
Posted Sunday September 07, 2008, About: Vikings eye OT in '09 draft
Its fixed big market against the small. But more importantly, its fixed against the players and the fans, whom the NFL views with equal disdain. The fans are treated like the abusive cattle they behave like in the stands, but pay through the nose for, and the players are thrown away without a thought upon an injury.

Money makes the league go around, and without the gullible fans and ego driven players who actually think they are different from one another until they get hurt . See Culpepper, and an endless list of great players who were kicked to the curb, after being literally wooed by the teams and the league. This includes massive amounts of attention heaped on the players and their families. However, the second the player is hurt, all attention ceases and the attitude is, "next!"

The Vikings are no better and no worse than other teams. although Childress and the Wilfs, as will soon be shown, have no loyalty to anyone. The Wilfs have used a scalpel around Eden Prairie and have no friends. Word has it they intend to sell out their own Mother, as soon as they get their price.
Posted Sunday September 07, 2008, About: Culpepper takes parting shot at NFL
50yearfan HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. Dante, its nothing personal, but the NFL is a hardnosed business, before anything else, as I have posted time and time again, IT ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!!!
Posted Sunday September 07, 2008, About: Williams negotiates with Parcells
Yeah, Ricky has just done so well all along in the NFL, I'm sure negotiating w/Parcells, of all people, will turn out to be another brilliant move. What a disappointment Williams has been.

Does anyone remember that surgary article about him when he was on the cover of SI and at the top of his game before he decided drugs were more important than anything? I actually thought the guy was going to go on to do great things.
Posted Sunday September 07, 2008, About: Player: Faldo's Ryder picks selfish
briggsky...let's hope the Brits don't! We've played like Saturday duffers for so long, the Brits need not even send their best.
Posted Sunday September 07, 2008, About: Vikings eye OT in '09 draft
Where does FN get this futuristic junk? Tell us the scoop on today's team. Thanks!
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Ups, downs for Vijay's caddie
Oh, no doubt about it, Singh is quite sure he is very special and his caddie must be willing to swallow a bit of ground glass, but it goes with the territory. He wins alot and he works hard; but he's still a jerk.
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Ruth's granddaughter questions Yanks
Bring back candy bar night! Ya know, so the fans can pelt the players with the Baby Ruth's, like they did with the Reggie's. Jeez, what more does she want?

HAS SHE BEEN TO COOPERTOWN, HE DOMINATES THE PLACE, THE BAT ALONE, I HAVE BEEN HALF A DOZEN TIMES AND I CAN NEVER GET OVER THE SHEER SIZE OF THE WOOD! Today's bats look like little league.
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Hall calls Ewing, but Knicks don't
EZWriter.....who are your top 5? Just curious.
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Mangini open to Pennington return
Isn't Joe Namath first in line for the next coaching job with the Jets? Let's be fair, who got the ring for NY?
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Bills getting Pro Bowler back
He has a $4.5M contract and finds a reason not to show up for training camp or pre-season games?

Wait til he is hurt and sitting home, watching his team on TV, and he is collecting disability. These guys are one step away from the poorhouse when they act like this and I wish the teams would stand up to them.

I guess he couldn't feed his family?

"The Bills need to step up and pay the man." Exactly what for? Something he already got paid for...what am I missing here?
Posted Saturday September 06, 2008, About: Riley: Chalmers an 'embarrassment'
Smokin' dope is ego overload, they think they are above the rules, that's all.

I once had an MRI tech who smelled like dope and when I mentioned it to the office manager, I was fired as the patient by the Dr., for having the temerity to bother him with this problem!

Guess operating millions of dollars of equipment is not much different than working in the NFL and making millions. It all depends on how serioursly the folks in charge consider the transgression.
Posted Monday August 25, 2008, About: Did Springsteen wait for La Russa?
Jeez Bruce, the least you could do is be friends with Joe Torre. When's the last time Tony LaRussa did anything to give NJ a good day?
Posted Monday August 25, 2008, About: Did Springsteen wait for La Russa?
Talk about an odd couple, Jeez Bruce, the least you could do is be pals with Joe Torre!
Posted Tuesday August 05, 2008, About: Sources: Agent ripped off Hamilton
Yep, the business world is just jam packed with successful ex-college ballplayers.

The truth is college football players are groomed for the few draft spots in the pros and it is each guy's dream is just to attend the draft. They spend their entire academic careers hoping for a shot at the pros, and just a few hundred make it. That is statistically indisputable.

Afterwards, when they do not get drafted or walk -on, they blend into the world, hopefully have succeessful lives, but they do no make millions as no-names, and if they can land a job with a C average (or some sort of college equivalency diploma,) they are very fortunate. Those are facts, whether you agree with them or not. Many, many, many....never graduate. The draft is held in April.
Posted Tuesday August 05, 2008, About: Eagle explains his depression
He is not going through seious life trauma, its called "life," unfortunately in this increasingly violent and inhumane society. Good Luck to Mr. Andrews, may he have a healthy and succuessful season. Its good that he is talking about it and realizes there is treatment, and things will get better.
Posted Monday August 04, 2008, About: Sources: Agent ripped off Hamilton
Strategicals:

One football player from one school is a Rhodes Scholar and pre-med. Wow, out of the hundreds of thousands of guys who go out for football, that's really impressive. By the way, your mailman can go for "pre-med," if he signs up for community college biology and anatomy classes. It appears your ignorance is being fine tuned when you start swallowing SI puff stories on one player.

THE NFL IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY AND SO IS COLLEGE FOOTBALL. IT IS NOT ABOUT ACADEMICS. FOOTBALL PLAYERS RARELY GO ON TO CAREERS IN NEUROSURGERY.
Posted Sunday August 03, 2008, About: O'Hair's wife: Get rid of muscle car
What he needs is a good reliable Duster!
Posted Sunday August 03, 2008, About: Sources: Agent ripped off Hamilton
AF SCOTT:

Anyone dumb enough to represent himself will get what he deserves.

The owners will eat them alive. There is a statisitic that 80% of Americans have at one time, or will be involved in the judicial process. You have apparently never been to court, where those who represent themselves end up good and bitter, and emptyhanded... but wiser.

Law schools exist for a reason and there is a curriculum for law students to learn the sophisticated nuts and bolts of professional sports contract negotiation skills, and hang tough advocacy abilities for players. Who do you think drafts the contracts for the teams???

Professional level contracts require a law school education to decipher and negotitate. Haven't seen too much of that material around professional sports lately.

The four years they supposedly spend in college is to prepare them to play pro sports, not for living the future of a normal, average human being. The only thing that saves their sorry a******s are attorneys.

EVERYONE HATES ATTORNEYS UNTIL THEY NEED ONE.

These guys are lucky they can tie their shoes when the "graduate" from college.
Posted Thursday July 31, 2008, About: Sorenstam questions Wie's choices
She seems to lack the fire inside that all superior athletes have. If its not there now, it never will be. On the other hand, she is 18 and maybe doesn't want to be the Tracy Austin of golf.
Posted Tuesday July 29, 2008, About: Favre prefers Vikings over Bucs
Can this get anyore boring?
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