What is the most disturbing recent pro athlete trend?
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 11:55 AM CST
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PrintI'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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Why is it not surprising that Sizemore would do that?
Because he has a porn star name?
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
by t ball on Jan 28, 2010 11:57 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
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
But so funny
Oh, come on – we can all spend hours reading Texts from Last Night
by jerenkrantz on Jan 28, 2010 12:12 PM CST up reply actions
I'm talking about 14 year old girls texting naked pictures of themselves to other people
but I guess you could call that funny
Texts from last night...
is so nihilistic and debasing that I can’t have a laugh at it. And I’m one who enjoys a laugh.
by ghostofErikThompson on Jan 28, 2010 6:22 PM CST up reply actions
especially considering alot of them are fakes now
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Jan 28, 2010 6:25 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'
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.
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'
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'
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'
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
Ridiculously annoying!
Especially when juxtaposed against Felix pumping out 2 straight 8 yard carries and leaving the field without a word
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.
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.
Imagine if cell phones with cameras were around...
…when Charles Haley was playing.
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 12:28 PM CST up 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)
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’
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.
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
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
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
It doesn't bother you thatthe defensive gameplan is to injure or at least hope for injury for the opponent's best player?
That’s bothersome.
by 3hacks on Jan 28, 2010 2:13 PM CST via mobile 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?
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
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.
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!!!”
Tebow's seemed focused and angry; also, embarassed, not planned
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 28, 2010 6:26 PM CST up reply actions
Tebow was a homeschooled kid who only slummed with the great unwashed to play football and baseball
Screw him.
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 28, 2010 6:47 PM CST up reply actions
Tell me how you really feel Adam...
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Listen
I’ve been anti-Tebow for so long, I almost typed virulence when I intended to defend him in that prior post. But it’s true. If you watch that video, he looks to have in no way gone over what he was going to say.
Not that it was one of the most important speeches of our times, but I just don’t think it was forced…is my point.
And I’m starting to come around on Tebow, just as he’s about to make it to the NFL and become a 2nd round pick career backup
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Jan 29, 2010 9:36 AM CST up reply actions
He's not going to be a second round pick though.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Not my personal opinion. Just from reading quite a few different articles..
..you get the feelilng that some team might snag him in the 2nd.
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'
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
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
or golf
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Jan 28, 2010 12:49 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?
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
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
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.
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'
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.
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.
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'
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.
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.
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
Former athletes criticizing current athletes for stuff they used to do?
by cstorm15 on Jan 28, 2010 1:26 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
If this really becomes a poll tomorrow
This is the winner.
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
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
How about... Twitter Trash Talk
Ocho Cinco
by Oracle Galvez on Jan 28, 2010 1:54 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.
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