NFL Lamentations

The Sports Guy had a quote on Raiders' coach Norv Turner today that made me giggle like a nine year old after watching "The Film" for the first time:

After another of Norv Turner's team quit on him, it raises the question: Does this spread to other aspects of his life? For instance, if Turner is walking his dog, does the dog simply stop walking two blocks from the house? If his family is playing Scrabble during the Thanksgiving break, does the game break up when there are still 15 tiles left in the bag? How does this work? Anyway, add the Raiders to Suck Central.

Then Simmons goes for extra credit:

Funniest fantasy dynamic of the season: Any fantasy league where one guy took Priest Holmes and another guy took Larry Johnson. If the Larry Johnson Guy acts even remotely smug to the Priest Holmes Guy, it's almost like acting smug after you've hooked up with somebody's sister -- you can do it, but you might get punched in the face.

For the record, I have Larry Johnson.

Anyway, if you are an NFL fan, read all of it. The theme is perpetual putridity in the Not Fun League. I have to agree, the overall quality of professional football sucks.

I am a huge Giants fan, and watched this team play in one of the toughest divisions football ever produced in the 80's and 90's. There were some unbelievably good teams in the NFC East during that time. Any of those Eagles teams that just couldn't find a way to get past the Giants, Redskins or Cowboys then would go 16 - 0 in today's watered down league.

This year's Giants team is a pretty decent team with some future potential, but if they put this team into the NFC East in 1989, they'd be slugging it out with the Cardinals for last place. And the Giants are in FIRST place in what might be the "best" division in the NFC.

When you systematically set up any system to acheive equality of results, all you end up with is mediocrity. The NFL is a real experiment that demonstrates the logical conclusions of a progressive's ideology.

UPDATE: Speaking of "Not Fun," why is it that I couldn't resist taking a shot at progressives when all I wanted to do what chat about football? Do I have some kind of sick obsession? When did I turn into Barbara Streisand with slightly fewer typos?