Givin’ a One-Fingered Salute to Whiny Media

Okay, football is football. There’s going to be a winning team and a losing team. Any sport has that. It’s not like we can live with ties all the time. We even developed overtime so ties wouldn’t happen!

So, what’s the big deal when one team is MUCH better than the other? A week or so ago, a Florida football team won 83-0. So what? EVERY PLAYER PLAYED for the winning team. What do they want? Just to sit down on the field and not play? Please. That would do more injustice. It’s a game! Even in life you have to learn that sometimes, you shouldn’t be doing something. Football, it seems, shouldn’t be done by that other team. Sorry. Someone had to say it since your parents always say, “You tried. That’s all that matters.” While that is true, I can keep trying to be a NASCAR driver, but if I come in last or wreck the car every time out, trying ain’t good enough. NEXT!

So, this week, it’s another “blow-out” “blown-out” of proportion by the media. In Arizona, a team won 67-0. So? The starting quarterback had 9 touchdown passes. So what? EVERY PLAYER PLAYED for the winning team. Even the opposing coach said that they didn’t run the score up. They were just THAT GOOD. But no, the winning coach is getting lambasted by the media for running the score up, not playing fair, for having a talented team, you name it.

In competition, you’re going to have winners and losers. If you’re completely outclassed and get your butt kicked, live and learn. If you are cheated, well, that’s a different story. But, this isn’t a case of that. Media sucks since they want everyone to “be nice, everyone tie, everyone be happy”. And if we did that, then perhaps we might be stupid enough to believe everything that is on the internet or told to us by biased and skewed reporters/networks.

Men, let’s give the one-fingered salute to the media for this coverage and say, “May the best team win by WHATEVER they want!” After all, if I were to play tennis against Andy Roddick, the media might report Andy as being mean to me since he wouldn’t let me win a game. Am I going to cry? Nope. But, I might ask for an autograph across my butt since he’d own it after the match.

(Reference Story: Nine-TD Effort in Arizona HS Football Game Sparks Sportsmanship Debate)