Dear AndyB

[andyb]

Someone in this thread always got picked last for kickball games and is still bitter about it...

haha good angle but no, im not great but im decent at sports, just dont like em because what most of them stand for.

[andyb]

and oh, about the funding for schools and sports......the money is raised by booster clubs and all the players work their asses off for it. i've spent many saturdays cleaning up parks, cleaning roads, selling doughnuts.....etc....etc....for all those new uniforms.

that might be true for some schools but it didnt seem that way at mine, the football team/ baseball teams never did anything to help themselves, our school actually had a budget set aside for all after school activities, and it all went to football, i do agree that football generates the most money, and that they should get the biggest cut, but it seemed EVERYTHING else got shoved aside for it. it really hurt all the students trying to make something of themselves in other activities because all funds were taken up already.

[Mike]

You know Andy I would have to disagree with you on this one. I don't think it?s a good idea to generalize that all athletes are selfish bitches. I mean come on Warrick Dunn helps single mothers get back on there feet financially. Keth Brooking has the Keth Brooking children?s foundation. I think even Rod Colman took one weeks pay to help with the Katrina effort. Not only that but youth football leagues help build character and self esteem. There is a lot more to football and sports than meets the eye.

A WHOLE FUCKING WEEKS PAY? HOLY SHIT YOUR RIGHT HE ISNT A SELFISH BITCH. it would be nice to get paid 12 million dollars a year so i could help 5 people and not get called a selfish bitch. so thats three, what about the rest of the football teams? and youth football doesnt help build shit, it teaches kids that if your athletic you can get away with bullshit, band taught me more about responsibily and gave me more character than any football player in our whole school, they promote learning and integrity and pride, football simply praises the gifted with an easy ride.

Greg was close, but apparently you were a marching band nerd and are still resentful of the shitty reputation you received because of it.

I learned a good deal from playing sports and I was in all nerd classes. I was ok athletically. What it taught me was how to be good at something by working hard at it. School was always easy for me so that was a change.
Your right in some sense that because of money, people go overboard and praise athletes and pay them large sums of money because sports as a whole makes so much money.
But that's true of things other than sports too.
Some people have it easier in life; don't bitch about it.

[Holiday Rambler]

first off, mora and vick need to balance out vicks play. which means keeping him running but teaching him to slide properly b/c dude isn't a passer yet. he may end up being a fairly good QB one day, but right now he is good at handing the ball off or scrambling.

He does need to learn to slide, he also needs to learn the proper way to tuck a ball and not run like he's carrying a hot potato all the time.

He could also learn to use the pocket, instead of the first-instinct "run, the alarm is tripped!" bolt-manuever he does every pass play.

[andyb]

Greg was close, but apparently you were a marching band nerd and are still resentful of the shitty reputation you received because of it.

I learned a good deal from playing sports and I was in all nerd classes. I was ok athletically. What it taught me was how to be good at something by working hard at it. School was always easy for me so that was a change.
Your right in some sense that because of money, people go overboard and praise athletes and pay them large sums of money because sports as a whole makes so much money.
But that's true of things other than sports too.
Some people have it easier in life; don't bitch about it.

i was a nerd long before i joined the marching band, thats why i am who i am, and im not ashamed at all of it. and im not mad that the athletes get paid more than me, they should get paid more, but i dont like it when the get paid 56 billion dollars a game and then go on strike because they arent making enough, or when people like mike tyson blow the millions and millions of dollars they make, and then turn to the rest of us like we owe them something. or when the donate one whole weeks pay to some bullshit charity, and then people view them like heros, if they really want to help, they should give a years salary, they can afford it.

[BlazeTSU]

first off, mora and vick need to balance out vicks play. which means keeping him running but teaching him to slide properly b/c dude isn't a passer yet. he may end up being a fairly good QB one day, but right now he is good at handing the ball off or scrambling.

He does need to learn to slide, he also needs to learn the proper way to tuck a ball and not run like he's carrying a hot potato all the time.

He could also learn to use the pocket, instead of the first-instinct "run, the alarm is tripped!" bolt-manuever he does every pass play.

yeah, he does resort to that bolt-mauever quite often. it wouldn't be so bad if he would just run or do something b/c the last few games have been horrid. he runs out of the pocket and then stops and looks for a receiver and gets smashed.

[BlazeTSU]

Greg was close, but apparently you were a marching band nerd and are still resentful of the shitty reputation you received because of it.

I learned a good deal from playing sports and I was in all nerd classes. I was ok athletically. What it taught me was how to be good at something by working hard at it. School was always easy for me so that was a change.
Your right in some sense that because of money, people go overboard and praise athletes and pay them large sums of money because sports as a whole makes so much money.
But that's true of things other than sports too.
Some people have it easier in life; don't bitch about it.

i was a nerd long before i joined the marching band, thats why i am who i am, and im not ashamed at all of it. and im not mad that the athletes get paid more than me, they should get paid more, but i dont like it when the get paid 56 billion dollars a game and then go on strike because they arent making enough, or when people like mike tyson blow the millions and millions of dollars they make, and then turn to the rest of us like we owe them something. or when the donate one whole weeks pay to some bullshit charity, and then people view them like heros, if they really want to help, they should give a years salary, they can afford it.

all i have to say is "more money, more problems" i don't like the fact that athletes make so much money either. that being said, someone like rod coleman giving up a weeks salary is actually doing a good bit. he isn't the most paid man in football ya'know. he is defensive tackle, not really a money position. i couldn't have given a weeks worth of my salary to relief. i'd guess that not many, if any of us here gave anything remotely close to a weeks pay.

and about the "praises the gifted with an easy ride" thing. thats a yes and no situation. sure, i got some things easier in school for being a football stand out but it wasn't good grades. they just worked with me on things like detentions and ISS so i could play in the games. but by no means was it easy! we busted our asses everyday and we helped everyone on the team out. the gifted got no special treatment at practice. we were worked twice as hard as most guys out there b/c we had to be leaders and push the people around us to get better. i learned tons from all my years in sports and i use it all in everyday life. and i actually use most of what i learned in sports in my music.