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He wrote two paragraphs without mentioning his dad or or his friends? That has to be a record for him.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...ons/bostonblog
So let me get this straight: as football fans outside of New England, we have no right to pass judgment on this because of the Iraq War? I understand this sucks for Pats fans, they were probably good enough to win those three les and now every team that's ever lost to them has a convenient excuse for doing so, but this is some of the worst writing he's ever done. I also liked when Simmons used Kevin Everett's injury as a shield to hide Belichick behind. "Ignore our cheatin coach, check out the cripple!" What an ass.We live in a world in which global-warming activists charter private jets to take them from speech to speech, then tell people not to use so much toilet paper. We live in a world in which American kids are getting killed every day in the Middle East and nobody will mobilize a valid protest until the President finally decides, "We're having a draft lottery." We live in a world in which you can Google the female star of the most popular Disney TV movie ever and see her naked, and NBC runs a popular show in which they trap potential child predators and film the confrontations on TV. We live in a world in which high school kids can decide they don't like another high school kid, so they can build an anonymous slam page and libel the out of him, and even though this happens and keeps happening, we still don't have any set-in-stone Internet laws to prevent this. We live in a world in which Perez Hilton and TMZ.com get their own TV shows, but "Friday Night Lights" is two months away from getting canceled. We live in a world in which every home run record from the past 10 years has to be taken not just with a grain of salt, but an entire salt shaker.
"So save me the moral indignation about CameraGate. The whole world is screwed up. We watch football every week because the games are entertaining, because it's something to do, because it gives us something to discuss with our friends, co-workers and family members. If you're searching for a football-related moral cause with some meat, watch this month's feature about Earl Campbell on "Costas Now." He's the Texas hero who got chewed up and spit out by professional football; now he suffers from crippling back and knee problems and needs a cane or a wheelchair to get around. The NFL makes roughly a kajillion dollars a year, only its player's union doesn't give two craps about a deteriorating ex-star like Campbell, one of the watershed stars of the '70s and someone who helped push the league to its current heights. They have a lame pension program and no disability benefits, and they have a union head (Gene Upshaw) who openly admits he's paid to worry about current players and not former ones ... even though he's a former player himself. Of course, that story isn't nearly as controversial as the current Patriots scandal because we can't slap a "Gate" behind it. Too bad."
He wrote two paragraphs without mentioning his dad or or his friends? That has to be a record for him.
I want to know how Hench and J-Bug are holding up.
He is much better when he isn't writing so many columns.
Do we really need Patriots/Celtics/Bruins/Red Sox columns every week?
Now I know why Jimmy Kimmel fired him....
Terrible article.
Well, he doesn't cover Bruins or NHL anymore, so he's got that going for him.
Simmons was overdramatic, for sure, but he was just reacting to the overdramatization of this entire story by EVERYBODY ELSE. You'd think Belichick was funding Al-Qaeda and said prayers for Pol Pot by the way everyone portrayed him the past week.
OTOH, the Patriots are certainly not the only team that bends and breaks rules to get an edge. On the other, based on what people from around the League are saying, they were the only team that were warned not to tape opposing signals and went ahead and did it anyway. There's also allegations and anecdotal evidence so far, offered by the Cincinnati and Detroit organizations, that the Patriots are cutting off radio communication between the coordinator booths and the personnel on the sidelines during games at Foxboro. It's the arrogance of thinking he was bulletproof, as well as lots of smoke and possibly fire concerning other allegations of cheating, that made this such a big story. Given the disdain with which Belichick has treated others during his reign, this kind of schadenfreude reaction has to be expected.
That's the big thing to me. Everybody cheats to get an edge, and in the total picture of the NFL world, this is a mere blip on the radar. There are far more pressing issues that the NFL should be concerned with, meanwhile all anybody can think and obsess over is "those dirty goddamn cheating Patriots".
And Belichick's salty personality towards the media is no indicator that that is how he treats everybody in life. The large majority of his current and former players would say otherwise, along with any biography written about him.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think those issues are? It seems to me that the tenor of the accusations leveled against them is that they go beyond what is acceptable. There are rules, and then there are unwritten rules, a method for players and coaches to internally police each other.That's the big thing to me. Everybody cheats to get an edge, and in the total picture of the NFL world, this is a mere blip on the radar. There are far more pressing issues that the NFL should be concerned with, meanwhile all anybody can think and obsess over is "those dirty goddamn cheating Patriots".
I just can't bring myself to care very much about any of this.
Bill Simmons is right. Furthermore, we shouldn't even be paying attention to sports in the first place, given all the bad things going on in the world that are more important. And Bill Simmons certainly shouldn't make a career writing about something so trivial when he could writing about the crisis in Darfur or whatnot.
Therefore, in order to be morally consistent with his points in the article, and not to be a rationalizing chowderslopping asshat, he should resign from ESPN immediately.
This is almost as logical as his idea that the Blazers shouldn't have drafted Greg Oden because he doesn't "glide" when he walks.
I didn't know the star of the most popular Disney movie ever wasn't animated.
And for that matter, wasn't an animal of sorts.
The funniest part is he felt th exact opposite way after ref-gate which to all public knowledge had NOTHING to do with the spurs. But pats cheat on purpose and we have no right to judge! They would of won anyways! It's not like we beat the out of the suns the other three games! They would of won! P.S. Kevin Durrant for president.
Spurs = Patriots. people hate for one reason cuz they can't beat them. All teams cheat in some ways. Pats> Colts and Spurs > NBA them pussies. Bill was right on the mark again
Don't follow football much do you.
2003 called. They want their stats back.
I would like to read his column if in some alternate universe it was the Colts that had been caught taping signals.
Dungy doesn't have the balls to tape another team. He'd think it would revoke his salvation and send him to . If someone on the Colts had done it, it would have been behind Dungy's back and they'd be walking around street corners in Indy begging for change right now.
And the Colts didn't win 3 super bowls before this came up, and the one that they did win was against the Bears....who you wouldn't need signal stealing to beat because Grossman would hand you the W on a silver platter.
So Simmons would probably just say some trash like Dungy sucks at doing background checks or something.
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