Re: An intelligent T.O. question (no moronic/racist responses please)

"SeanHooks" <seanhooks@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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> WHY IS T.O. SO HATED
>
> The anger this guy seems to attract has never, ever made sense to me.
> Can someone please explain this insanity of T.O.-hating to me? He's not
> a Randy Moss who had all the talent but gives you a half-hearted effort
> ON THE FIELD. He's very much a gamer, going all the way back to his
> Steve Young 49ers days. Just look at the guy's body, he's in,
> literally, PERFECT shape. He played hurt in the Super Bowl, risking his
> career in a league with no guaranteed contracts, had a monster day, and
> he's still reviled. But is there really anything different between him
> and David Wells? I find T.O. downright refreshing. He gave HONEST
> answers to the questions he was asked and is now being punished it.
> What a great lesson for our youth, be honest and be told to goose-step
> back in line. That's contemporary America for you, though. Don't be
> honest, tow the company line, be a yes man, that's how you get ahead.
>
> Is it race? Partly, I guess, and I usually absolutely hate when people
> play the race card. I have to start to think so when 80 percent of the
> country supports an indefinite suspension. For just opening his mouth?
> What happened to all that matters is between the lines? When you pick
> teams in gym class, you don't pick the A student or everybody's best
> friend or the class president, you pick the kid who can kick that
> kickball the hardest. Period. Any sane, logical person would take this
> guy on their team any day. He flat out produces. He's one of the best
> football players in the league, not just the best receivers. What is
> wrong with people? Don't you want your team to win? You have no problem
> rooting for rapists like Christian Peter or thugs with criminal records
> (a significant percentage of the league) but god forbid a black man
> opens his mouth and tells it like he sees it.
>
> Or perhaps it's a product of a neo-conservative America, this
> red-state militaristic nonsense about how players should be "good
> Christian soldiers" who never show an emotion and never celebrate
> anything is inane. And don't give me that "chemistry" nonsense
> either, because there are a slew of teams who won not just Super Bowls
> but all sorts of championships in other sports and the players couldn't
> stand each other and ripped each other all the time. Heck, Thurman
> Munson, Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin literally brawled it out in the
> dugout and clubhouse on their way to World Championships.
>
> Or maybe it's just Eagles fans or the city of Philadelphia. Look at the
> rest of the NFC East in the past. Giants fan certainly didn't care how
> LT mouthed off or dogged it in practice or how much coke he did.
> Cowboys fans weren't clamoring for the suspensions of loose cannons
> like Michael Irvin or Deion Sanders. The Redskins didn't seem to mind
> John Riggins's hippie antics or Doug Williams's checkered history. WHO
> CARES what a person SAYS? If T.O. is on my team, I don't care if he
> says the sky is red or that Osama bin Laden is a great human being, all
> that matters is what he does on the field. Conduct detrimental to the
> team? Wait and see how detrimental it will be without him. They already
> lost a one-score game to a division rival that they desperately needed.
> Let's see how Donovan likes throwing to Joe Blow and Chuck Meola at
> WR.
>
> And that's the bottom line, by sitting T.O. the Eagles are throwing
> in the towel on the season. Soup-boy Donovan McNabb has sunk so low as
> to resort to lines like, "Uh, we're 4 and 4, not 1 and 7." 4 and
> 4! This was the consensus best team in the NFC according to almost
> every single sports publication and betting line in the country! Now
> he's proud that they're .500 instead of 1 and 7? Wow.
>
> still looking for something remotely approaching an explanation,
> Sean Hooks
>
> SeanHooks@xxxxxxx
>
>

If you can't see the problem with TO you wouldn't understand any
explanation. Plus, your rant above leaves no one qualified to give you an
explanation.

bdog
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