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What is the most disturbing recent pro athlete trend?

I've been thinking about what the most disturbing recent trend among pro athletes is.

My initial reaction was whipping out firearms in the locker room to settle gambling disputes, but that appears to be just one isolated incident.

The trend I'm getting more worried about is athletes taking nekkid pictures of themselves, and then those photos showing up on the internet. 

When it was Grady Sizemore, I was like, okay, that's not that surprising that he'd do that...but Greg Oden?  Really?

Anyway, I'm going to open up the floor for suggestions of other disturbing recent pro athlete trends, and I'll take the best ones suggested and include them in a poll tomorrow.

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That's pretty good sir

"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by lost in space on Jan 28, 2010 12:41 PM CST up reply actions  

Thanking god for everything during the game

And then going to fuck a hooker in a hotel room after the game before going home to his family.

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Jan 28, 2010 12:00 PM CST reply actions  

totally agree

pointlessly bringing god and religion into sports

Fresh since 1822

by kmacsm on Jan 28, 2010 3:21 PM CST up reply actions  

How about taking your brother, Pa Kettle, and the rest of the fam

down to a local sports venue and grabbing the tushy of a players wife. Then lil bro takes a swing at a woman and big bro punches a bouncer in the back of the head?

I mean, we are seeing this all the time right? A horrible trend for athletes to start…

"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.

by AceJC on Jan 28, 2010 12:02 PM CST reply actions  

Pants on the ground?

Gold in the mouth? Hat turned sideways?

by Topgun22 on Jan 28, 2010 12:03 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

Good call

Mode, mod, or mad?

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Jan 28, 2010 12:23 PM CST up reply actions  

Mugging for the camera

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 28, 2010 12:07 PM CST reply actions  

Mine is not illegal really

but I’m tired of the extremely excessive celebration over every little success on the playing field. We aren’t too far away from the Baseketball opening scene where the dude gets paralyzed and the entire opposing team does the river dance around him to celebrate the TD.

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 12:07 PM CST reply actions  

Forgot to add

if you need an example, it is Marion Barber III jumping up and acting like he won the lottery after every 3 yard gain.

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 12:07 PM CST up reply actions  

Pro football is ridiculous

How bout the guys that pound their chests after laying out a receiver- that happened to hold onto the ball and make a first down!!

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 28, 2010 12:11 PM CST up reply actions  

That's one of the reasons why I hate it

It could 2nd and 15 after a huge penalty, and the running back gains about 3 yards and it’s a fucking party at chuckie cheese.

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Jan 28, 2010 12:17 PM CST up reply actions  

My favorite

is the 3 yard gain where the RB jumps up going nuts and right next to him is the LB’er who made the play going nuts and pretty soon all 22 guys on the field are screaming like some jackasses that it is 2nd and 7.

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 12:22 PM CST up reply actions  

yes!

I love when the offense and defense are celebrating at the same time

by BuckyB on Jan 28, 2010 12:24 PM CST up reply actions  

Ridiculously annoying!

Especially when juxtaposed against Felix pumping out 2 straight 8 yard carries and leaving the field without a word

by BuckyB on Jan 28, 2010 12:15 PM CST up reply actions  

Same Theme - Specific Example

Wide Receivers doing the “First Down” Signal. Especially in an exaggerated slow-motion sort of way.
Roy Williams does it every time (I realize that isn’t that often).

by Oracle Galvez on Jan 28, 2010 12:20 PM CST up reply actions  

I hate that shit too

Miles Austin had this problem the 1st couple of series against Minnesota, then we got our ass kicked.

by octoberty on Jan 28, 2010 12:48 PM CST up reply actions  

Oil Can Boyd

He was the first pitcher I remembered pulling this shit.

With the stuff the hitters pull now (and the fact that it’s frowned on to “send him a message” the next time he’s up)… It bothers me less when pitchers are celebrating K’s.

by Oracle Galvez on Jan 28, 2010 1:36 PM CST up reply actions  

Greg Oden is just a kid in a mans body.

He reminds me of a lot of Shaq. Just with a much less outgoing personality. If text messages were around when he was at LSU, I have a feeling The Diesel would be snapping nekkid picks and sending them to everyone.

Oden seems to have that same “kid” mentality when it comes to life that Shaq does, but just doesn’t amplify it like Shaq. His immaturity is showing with those pics. He’ll learn. Maybe.

"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.

by AceJC on Jan 28, 2010 12:12 PM CST reply actions  

Or Claudell Washington

or Patrick Ewing

or Hakeem Olajuwon ("Unbeatable)

Ahem, allegedly.

"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."

"Ranger players, especially veterans, weren’t surprised that Daniels couldn’t find a deal"

"The Influence continues." Josey Wales (1/18/10)

by Josey Wales on Jan 28, 2010 2:29 PM CST up reply actions  

I was once in a bathroom stall next to Hakeem...

I said in my manliest voice – ‘Damn, that water is cold’

He says in a much manlier voice – ‘And Deep’

by rothe on Jan 28, 2010 2:35 PM CST up reply actions  

Hahahaha

That’s hilarious in a very creepy kind of way.

by Drew062682 on Jan 28, 2010 2:43 PM CST up reply actions  

Kind of OT
Rays Sign Matt Bush http://bit.ly/dkhF9I #mlb

"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.

by Kinslerhomer on Jan 28, 2010 12:15 PM CST reply actions  

most disturbing

when Saints players basically said they were taking shots on Favre and not caring about 15-yard penalties.

Now they’re saying the same thing…“we’ll take the 15-yard penalties if it means we get to see Curtis Painter.”

Greatest Inventions Ever? 1. TiVO, 2. Boobs, 3. Baseball

by willamos2 on Jan 28, 2010 12:17 PM CST reply actions  

and here's the exact quote from d-coordinator Gregg Williams

“When you put too much of that type of worry on a warrior’s (Manning) mind, he doesn’t play all out,” Williams said. “If it (he takes a hit) happens, it happens. And the only thing you’d like for me to say is that if it happens you hope he doesn’t get back up and play again.”

Greatest Inventions Ever? 1. TiVO, 2. Boobs, 3. Baseball

by willamos2 on Jan 28, 2010 12:20 PM CST up reply actions  

Well

That quote isn’t as bad as your first post suggests.

I don’t see what the problem is with Williams’ statement.

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 12:29 PM CST up reply actions  

The defensive game plan...

…is to bring pressure on the QB and hit him, because if he’s getting hit, it gets him off his game.

Why is that a bad thing?

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 5:07 PM CST up reply actions  

This may get into semantics but it goes to what hurts and what injures.

Making a player physically uncomfortable and getting him out of his game plan is definitely a legitimate approach.

But this part of the quote:

you hope he doesn’t get back up and play again.

is pretty explicit in saying that injuring the player is a beneficial outcome of his approach.

If that’s not a bad thing, why wasn’t it OK for Buddy Ryan to have his special teams players try to injure the Cowboys kicker back in the day? Why is it a penalty (and usually a fine) for shots to the head against any player?

by 3hacks on Jan 28, 2010 5:47 PM CST up reply actions  

There is a difference between...

…telling a guy to go cheap shot a kicker with a hit intended to knock him out of the game, and gameplanning around the idea that you want to pressure the QB and knock him down a bunch.

If they can hit him enough times that he gets knocked out of the game, then that’s obviously a plus for the defense.

I don’t think Williams is saying to dive for Manning’s knees or go for his head and intentionally try to hurt him, but he is saying that they are going to be aggressive in pressuring him and putting him in a position where he’s on the ground a lot.

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 5:57 PM CST up reply actions  

out of context

Williams was only implying that the media would want him to say that

by kevinkinsler on Jan 28, 2010 6:00 PM CST up reply actions  

While this is disturbing...

I think there were a lot of D-Coordinators and D-Linemen that were afraid to be the one that put “a legend” like Favre out of the game.

Failing to hit Favre was the biggest mistake the Cowboys made.

Intentionally racking up 15 yard penalties isn’t the way… but the other extreme is just as bad. If an old man takes the field, you’ve still got to have the mentality that you’re going to hit him. Otherwise, make it touch football and bring Aikman, Marino, & Montana back to play with Favre.

by Oracle Galvez on Jan 28, 2010 12:28 PM CST up reply actions  

Aikman

Never seemed to worry Lavar Arrington.

"…although it does kinda show how little faith they have in Cruz, whether that be the org as a whole or just our beloved, bespectacled, kool-lovin’ skipper."

by Ryin A on Jan 11, 2010 5:48 PM EST

by hillcrest on Jan 28, 2010 12:31 PM CST up reply actions  

x

Aikman would love some touch football with the guys.

"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.

Then he grounded out weakly to second.

by WyoRanger on Jan 28, 2010 12:56 PM CST up reply actions  

Not just pro athletes

But it calls attention to a growing problem. Hanging out at a club until or after closing, then settling ‘respect’ issues with violence and gunplay. Role models ??

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Jan 28, 2010 12:24 PM CST reply actions  

Unfortunatley

most of today’s athletes didn’t have a real role model growing up so they don’t see themselves as role models. I’ll never forget seeing freakin’ Carmelo Anthony in a video standing on a Baltimore street corner talking about snitches getting killed after he was already a NBA superstar.

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 12:27 PM CST up reply actions  

I don't know if it's disturbing, but I hate when athletes force..

speeches or sayings that are planned out to sound “legendary” I guess? I don’t know if I’m explaining this properly.

Examples: Tebow speech in 2008, Kevin Garnett “Anything is possible!!!”

by cmkelly29 on Jan 28, 2010 12:28 PM CST reply actions  

Tell me how you really feel Adam...

"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.

by AceJC on Jan 28, 2010 11:13 PM CST up reply actions  

Listen

I’ve been anti-Tebow for so long, I almost typed virulence when I intended to defend him in that prior post. But it’s true. If you watch that video, he looks to have in no way gone over what he was going to say.

Not that it was one of the most important speeches of our times, but I just don’t think it was forced…is my point.

And I’m starting to come around on Tebow, just as he’s about to make it to the NFL and become a 2nd round pick career backup

"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"

by Walter Sobchak on Jan 29, 2010 9:36 AM CST up reply actions  

Yep

He did it directly after the game, nothing planned.(I doubt he planned on losing)

Herschel Walker, Hugh Green, Barry Sanders, Tim Tebow- greatest college players of the last 3 decades. Haters be damned.

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 29, 2010 12:57 AM CST up reply actions  

Don't forget Mitch Maher.

"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz

"Baseball's all that's real" - JB

by Cecilio's Guante on Jan 29, 2010 10:57 AM CST up reply actions  

I can agree with that

and still hate him

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Jan 29, 2010 2:25 PM CST up reply actions  

x

"Clearly, I've been wrong. VY is awesome." - AJM

by Longhorn on Jan 28, 2010 12:41 PM CST reply actions  

Wow

Couldn’t wait another month to beat her up?

by BuckyB on Jan 28, 2010 12:50 PM CST up reply actions  

I'd be okay...

with this latest trend as long as the athletes involved were female tennis players.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jan 28, 2010 12:41 PM CST reply actions  

mmm

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Jan 28, 2010 12:47 PM CST up reply actions  

x

into that underage stuff,huh…

"Clearly, I've been wrong. VY is awesome." - AJM

by Longhorn on Jan 28, 2010 1:37 PM CST up reply actions  

This is a weird front page thread,

how many more days before pitchers/catchers report?

21?

"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

by lost in space on Jan 28, 2010 12:50 PM CST reply actions  

Who the hell wants to see Greg Oden naked, anyway?

I mean, what is the purpose of those photos existing? Blackmail entails someone would actually want those pictures…. Mind boggling.

"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST

by jam0152 on Jan 28, 2010 12:51 PM CST reply actions  

Dude's a 7-foot tall black guy.

Is there really anything to wonder? It’s going to huge. There you go.

"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST

by jam0152 on Jan 28, 2010 12:54 PM CST up reply actions  

This guy

knows from experience…

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 1:02 PM CST up reply actions  

Sorry to hear of your disappointment.

Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.

by t ball on Jan 28, 2010 1:03 PM CST up reply actions  

It wasn't disappointing

Quite the contrary the first time you receive anal you want it to be small.

Trust me.

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Jan 28, 2010 1:07 PM CST up reply actions  

When that was posted

I have to think the record scratched and stopped, everyone stopped dancing, put down their drinks and slowly shuffled out of the club…

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 1:30 PM CST up reply actions  

There are no "recent" disturbing athlete trends

Nekkid pictures is a just a result of technology. Athletes have been the way they are for a while. Excessive sense of entitlement, living excessively, sleeping around, showboating – none of those are new trends.

"You promised me, Eckstein, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I noticed that during the most trying periods of my life, there have only been one set of prints in the sand. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" David Eckstein replied, "Because my little legs had gotten tired, and you were carrying me." And I looked down and saw that I was still carrying David Eckstein.

Then he grounded out weakly to second.

by WyoRanger on Jan 28, 2010 1:06 PM CST reply actions  

Who stole your cane?

I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'

by iorange555 on Jan 28, 2010 1:08 PM CST up reply actions  

No joke

did you walk 10 miles to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways?

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 1:10 PM CST up reply actions  

It's not recent, but pointing up to God

when you get a hit or make a touchdown. It didn’t bother me till Nick Swisher did it, then all of a sudden it seemed like a bad idea.

by jcAustin on Jan 28, 2010 1:18 PM CST reply actions  

what's wrong with that?

"They’ve taken the Illini to the woodshed."
-Steve Lavin on Mizzou v. Illinois

by Jason Brynsvold on Jan 28, 2010 1:24 PM CST up reply actions  

It's just tired.

It’s like Dee Brown pumping up his Reeboks. Pujols does it at every base.

'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'

by scoop16 on Jan 28, 2010 1:27 PM CST up reply actions  

I see the problem there.

God should be pointing down at Pujols.

by LiamP on Jan 28, 2010 2:39 PM CST via mobile up reply actions  

Because, though some pretend

they’re giving credit to God, it’s really a way of drawing attention to one’s self, as if saying “God makes me doing things well on the field a priority” or something like that. I’d like to think that god really doesn’t give a crap about the football game, having perhaps more important items on his agenda.

Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.

by t ball on Jan 28, 2010 2:15 PM CST up reply actions  

Some people are actually genuine

and are doing it to thank God for their athletic ability.

by Schultzy on Jan 28, 2010 3:39 PM CST up reply actions  

either way,

Biblically, God didn’t like people individually praising him in public anyways

by kevinkinsler on Jan 28, 2010 5:11 PM CST up reply actions  

It's still a bit of a showy display of faith

It’s far from outrageous behavior, but something about it bugs me.

Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.

by t ball on Jan 28, 2010 5:37 PM CST up reply actions  

If you would have said: K-Rod

Someone would have posted the gif pretty quick.

by Oracle Galvez on Jan 28, 2010 1:32 PM CST up reply actions  

Most disturbing trend: Ryan Sweeney being allowed to play baseball

"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217

Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales

by WestTxAg06 on Jan 28, 2010 1:50 PM CST reply actions  

Jim Knox

being allowed TV time during Rangers games

"calmer than you are dude" Walter (Big Lebowski)

by Arlington Stadium Legend on Jan 28, 2010 1:59 PM CST up reply actions  

Disturbing pro athelete trends...

Getting drunk, harassing women and punching security guards has to rank up there.

Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.

by LSJ on Jan 28, 2010 7:49 PM CST reply actions  

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