tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883634507539657866.post6409860178943515604..comments2024-01-22T06:25:23.083-05:00Comments on Bubblegum Aesthetics: Don't Haze Me, BroBrian Doanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17903729233401672600noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883634507539657866.post-68271349770127224842007-09-27T23:03:00.000-04:002007-09-27T23:03:00.000-04:00thanks, jonathan!thanks, jonathan!Brian Doanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903729233401672600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883634507539657866.post-56976045749050014932007-09-27T22:57:00.000-04:002007-09-27T22:57:00.000-04:00It is truly amazing to me sometimes how extraordin...It is truly amazing to me sometimes how extraordinarily fast some phrases enter the public lexicon. Who would have thought "Don't taze me bro" would be a catch phrase? And I like your play on it.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883634507539657866.post-19492466706123038852007-09-25T13:35:00.000-04:002007-09-25T13:35:00.000-04:00Yes, I'm kind of surprised Gundy didn't say that t...Yes, I'm kind of surprised Gundy didn't say that the column "couldn't do-- Diddly- POO! out there!!"Brian Doanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17903729233401672600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4883634507539657866.post-8143158194303391972007-09-25T03:11:00.000-04:002007-09-25T03:11:00.000-04:00First off, Carlson gets no points for perspicacity...First off, Carlson gets no points for perspicacity: "A 21-year-old letting his mother feed him in public? Most college kids, much less college football players, would just as soon be seen running naked across campus." I can tell you that there are plenty of college kids who'd call that their idea of the perfect Saturday.<BR/><BR/>(I'll leave Gundy to you, Cinephile, as you've handled him in such spot-on fashion.)<BR/><BR/>Man, what a massive pile of ugly. The column--you're right--sucks. "Or does he want to be coddled, babied, perhaps even fed chicken?" Really, was the chicken stuff necessary? Add racist overtones (and how 'bout some homphobia while we're at it?) to the rest of the complaints about her Maureen Dowd-wannabe approach. ("News alert! Jenni Carlson calls Gundy the Breck Girl!") Even if this kid did have mother issues, it's pretty juvenile to go after him like that for merely eating. (Especially when NFL stars appear in soup commercials with their mothers. Somebody out there thinks that pairing is not-weird enough to sell some cans of Chunky.) Better to dick around with innuendo than actually craft a defensible case that Reid's not up to the stresses of being a starter. She's got a story there; she's just not using her column to write about it.<BR/><BR/>Having witnessed the macho crapfest that is much of sports broadcasting in OKC (homebase to <I>The Oklahoman</I> and KWTV-9, and Stillwater's home market as far as I can remember), Carlson's doing pretty much what I saw male sportscasters do there, pathetic as that is: imagination-free and talent-bereft 'reporting,' masculinity policing, pitiful self-aggrandizement, very public bullying of vulnerable athletes, and so on. In the comments, she's being criticized by the, ahem, most enlightened posters for the thing for which she criticizes Reid, not having (enough) balls. Well done, everyone! <BR/><BR/>They don't call it Bedlam (when OSU plays OU) for nothin'.<BR/><BR/>As for the rest of it, I agree with your point: get the NFL off the college teat, make it create its own damn farm system (I dunno, maybe call it NFL Europe?), and let college ball be about playing a game. (Remember when the WNBA was started and people kept saying how refreshing it was to see teams playing fundamental basketball instead of the show we call the NBA?) Yes, I know universities will close, entire states will go bankrupt, and ultimately the universe will fold in on itself. But I say it's worth it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com