Something worth reading for all the morons on this forum and scumbag journos

[The Lucky State]

This is from an American sports writer called bill simmons, I remember him writing this in a column about Mike Tyson. In light of the ridiculous hysteria about Sonny Bill I think it is worth reading.

" It all comes back to the High Horse Factor. You know how sports columnists and radio hosts love hopping on high horses and villifying targets like Tyson, how they get all carried away and start gunning for the Pulitzer, how they write lines like "He's the monster in all of us" and say things like "They could be fighting in my living room and I wouldn't watch it"? Nobody rated higher on the High Horse Factor than Tyson, the grizzled sports columnist's wet dream. Just once, I would have loved to have seen one of these media people tell their editors or producers, "You know what, I refuse to discuss Tyson on the radio anymore," or "Please don't send me to cover this fight, because I refuse to write about such a scumbag." (would be nice to see hadley, dean rictchie or wilson not discuss or write about sonny bill anymore or stop talking about the dogs.)

Can I just add that journos sicken me. Footballers generally do one or two bad things in their career, usually that hurt themselves and no one else. Asshole journos make a career of criticisizing people. The only people that deserve the amount of sh*t that footballers cop are actually the journos that give it themselves. They revolt me.

Secondly my favourite high horse moment from this forum was when "Legend" called for the bulldogs to be kicked out of the comp ASAP if rogers and sbw play first grade football this week. I also saw a few people gunning for pulitzers here to using words like "law enforemcent authorities" and "bringing the game into disrepute". Very pompous.

 

[Timmah]

TLS, stop making sense. I can't keep agreeing with you It's bad for my poor image :sarcasm:

 

[legend]

I have nothing against Mat Rogers at this point in time.

 

[mullet]

This is from an American sports writer called bill simmons, I remember him writing this in a column about Mike Tyson. In light of the ridiculous hysteria about Sonny Bill I think it is worth reading.

" It all comes back to the High Horse Factor. You know how sports columnists and radio hosts love hopping on high horses and villifying targets like Tyson, how they get all carried away and start gunning for the Pulitzer, how they write lines like "He's the monster in all of us" and say things like "They could be fighting in my living room and I wouldn't watch it"? Nobody rated higher on the High Horse Factor than Tyson, the grizzled sports columnist's wet dream. Just once, I would have loved to have seen one of these media people tell their editors or producers, "You know what, I refuse to discuss Tyson on the radio anymore," or "Please don't send me to cover this fight, because I refuse to write about such a scumbag." (would be nice to see hadley, dean rictchie or wilson not discuss or write about sonny bill anymore or stop talking about the dogs.)

Can I just add that journos sicken me. Footballers generally do one or two bad things in their career, usually that hurt themselves and no one else. Asshole journos make a career of criticisizing people. The only people that deserve the amount of sh*t that footballers cop are actually the journos that give it themselves. They revolt me.

Secondly my favourite high horse moment from this forum was when "Legend" called for the bulldogs to be kicked out of the comp ASAP if rogers and sbw play first grade football this week. I also saw a few people gunning for pulitzers here to using words like "law enforemcent authorities" and "bringing the game into disrepute". Very pompous.

???

roberts maybe

 

[Y2Eel]

I have nothing against Mat Rogers at this point in time.

:lol: i was wondering if someone would pick him up on that one...

What forum award are you gunning for by the way Legend? Whats the forum equal to the Pulitzer?

 

[Timmah]

legend got people talking thats the important part :lol:

 

[CrazyEel]

So does Rebecca Wilson

 

[legend]

:lol: i was wondering if someone would pick him up on that one...

What forum award are you gunning for by the way Legend? Whats the forum equal to the Pulitzer?

It's called the Cisco Kid! ;-)

 

[God-King Dean]

They feed off human misery.

 

[legend]

You said it mate. Dogs = Human Misery.

Sits well with me.

 

[innsaneink]

Are we all creating new threads to reply to existing threads now???

Someone needs to be noticed.

 

[Charlie124]

If you want to keep your club out of the headlines, dont get caught drink driving, smashing some whore in a toilet and pissing on walls.

I dont like journos but they report whatever they can about sportspeople, if the sportspeople stopped making themselves such easy targets by doing dumb sh*t, the journos wont have such an easy time getting the headlines.

 

[HevyDevy]

This is from an American sports writer called bill simmons, I remember him writing this in a column about Mike Tyson. In light of the ridiculous hysteria about Sonny Bill I think it is worth reading.

" It all comes back to the High Horse Factor. You know how sports columnists and radio hosts love hopping on high horses and villifying targets like Tyson, how they get all carried away and start gunning for the Pulitzer, how they write lines like "He's the monster in all of us" and say things like "They could be fighting in my living room and I wouldn't watch it"? Nobody rated higher on the High Horse Factor than Tyson, the grizzled sports columnist's wet dream. Just once, I would have loved to have seen one of these media people tell their editors or producers, "You know what, I refuse to discuss Tyson on the radio anymore," or "Please don't send me to cover this fight, because I refuse to write about such a scumbag." (would be nice to see hadley, dean rictchie or wilson not discuss or write about sonny bill anymore or stop talking about the dogs.)

Can I just add that journos sicken me. Footballers generally do one or two bad things in their career, usually that hurt themselves and no one else. Asshole journos make a career of criticisizing people. The only people that deserve the amount of sh*t that footballers cop are actually the journos that give it themselves. They revolt me.

Secondly my favourite high horse moment from this forum was when "Legend" called for the bulldogs to be kicked out of the comp ASAP if rogers and sbw play first grade football this week. I also saw a few people gunning for pulitzers here to using words like "law enforemcent authorities" and "bringing the game into disrepute". Very pompous.

I'm a journo ...

 

[ockham]

Great Point. The Laffer curve kicks in here. The idea that some salt on your chips is better than none, does that mean more is better than some? Yes - to a point, there is a point to which it becomes less about the chips than it does the salt...

Some information about the "human" side of RL players is better than none. More is not always better than some. It will ultimately be BAD for the game, and the balance will be found by fans losing interest - unless journo's get a conscience and realise that the chips are starting to disappear under all the salt they are pouring.

 

[Titanic]

Fair enough C124 and TLS why even compare SBW with Iron Brain Mike? Tyson is a convicted rapist, ear-biter, drug-eating deliquent while SBW is just a big kid learning how to deal with fame. I don't support the Dogs nor stupidity either (only a little) but he was caught piddling, punished and is paying the price of being a star which he is well paid for, especially on current form.

 

[ShadesOfTheSun]

Gunning for Pulitzers? If only the use of the occasional pretentious phrase could get you one, I could quit my day job.

I'm a writer, mate; it is my habit to try and ensure that whatevert I write contains an inherent lyricism. The term 'law enforcer' to me sounded better in the sentence I had constructed than 'police'; moreover, it emphasised the point I was trying to make in regards to the public's close scrutiny of SBW's actions.

I also fail to see the connection between Legend calling for the Bulldogs to be kicked from the NRL and certain posters using what is in your opinion 'pompous language.'

 

[The Lucky State]

They both fall under the general category of "High Horseness". I thought you would have understood that from the post.