Guest sek69 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Maybe its because I have an obvious bias, but can someone fly to Bristol and pry ESPN's lips off of Bill Belichick's wang? Yes, they are a good team and he is a good coach, but every week every ESPN analyst is all OMGBELICHICKISTEHBESTEST~! It's getting goddamn annoying. Not to mention the Steelers go 15-1 and put a beating on the Pats in the process and almost all the ESPN.com crew pick the Pats to win the Super Bowl because Billy B can shit tiffany cufflinks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Winter Of My Discontent Report post Posted January 5, 2005 uhm, its not espn doing, its everyone. I guess you haven't been around this board for very long. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smell the ratings!!! Report post Posted January 5, 2005 you better hope Belichick doesn't read this or he will totally strike you with lightning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Failed Mascot Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Belichik could beat a hurricane...unless it was named "Hurricane Belichik". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
teke184 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 It's not as annoying as the sports press in general blowing USC... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 The Pats? Hell, when TO went down, I thought the ESPN NFL talking heads were going to cry... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Salacious Crumb Report post Posted January 5, 2005 It's never bothered me compared to the Laker, Steve McNair, Peyton Manning and Yankee verbal bjs that ESPN constantly lays down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NoCalMike 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 It may bother us, but thank gawd it isn't spring training for baseball yet or it would be Red Sox felatio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 The Red Sox blow jobs are far and away the most frequent. The Yankees are treated more like the evil empire. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 The Yankees are treated more like the evil empire. Not entirely untrue, when you consider that their owner doesn't really care much about the rest of MLB. Anyways, as far as the fellatio goes, ESPN is always more than willing to kneel down to whatever flavour of the month there is. It just so happens that the Patriots have been consistently good enough that ESPN's NFL fluffers haven't needed to stop sucking, except for when they're blowing Rothlisberger or Owens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Peter Gammons was blowing the Red Sox during the playoffs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smell the ratings!!! Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Gammons has been blowing the Red Sox since before I was born. 20 bucks says he's in their media guide somewhere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 He's a Boston writer, so of course he's going to pay attention to the Red Sox. Ditto Buster Olney and the Yankees, and Jayson Stark and the Phillies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smell the ratings!!! Report post Posted January 5, 2005 well Olney has an excuse as he's not allowed to write about other teams. Which is fine with me, by the way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Shadow Behind You Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Blowing the Pats? they ignored them all year. It's Been Manning and T.O love all season. They are likely picking New England because *whispers*...they are the best team in the nation....nah, too logical. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Deebo Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Whoever wins the Superbowl is going to get that treatment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Gecko Report post Posted January 5, 2005 It's never bothered me compared to the Laker, Steve McNair, Peyton Manning and Yankee verbal bjs that ESPN constantly lays down. Don't forget Brett Favre, Ray Lewis, and more generally the Baltimore Ravens. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 What is this Pats blowing of which you speak? All the AFC talk I've heard the last few weeks has been Colts and Steelers, Colts and Steelers, Manning, Manning, Manning, Colts and Steelers... "Who the hell are the Patriots?" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kahran Ramsus 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 It's never bothered me compared to the Laker, Steve McNair, Peyton Manning and Yankee verbal bjs that ESPN constantly lays down. Don't forget Brett Favre, Ray Lewis, and more generally the Baltimore Ravens. Also Michael Vick. Favre usually only gets love when he is close to passing some record. Otherwise you get talks about how he should have retired years ago. He was 28 when the media first declared him washed-up, only to suck up to him later. The Packers get more favourtism than a team that the media actively seems to hate (like Minnesota or Oakland), but hardly the level that a team like Dallas or Philadelphia gets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 If anything, the Patriots get the opposite of blown by the sports media. Tom Brady has been a veritable wunderkind in his first four years with two Lombardis and two SB MVPs, but he never gets mentioned in the same breath as the almighty Manning. On top of that, Kurt Warner got shitloads of media rimjobs during his comparable hightime a couple years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the pinjockey 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 I do agree that ESPN really does not blow the Pats, but I know Peter King sure as hell does. I think he had about 8 weeks in a row where the MMQB was about them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Failed Mascot Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Peter King thinks that Belichik is the best thing since sliced bread though and has said so since Belichik's days in Cleveland. Its not surprising. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Smell the ratings!!! Report post Posted January 5, 2005 *Insert Jake Plummer MVP joke here* God I can't even be bothered to write out my tripe anymore. I am so sub-standard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Anyone named Manning. From one of the games most overrated QB's in Archie to his son who's never done shit Eli. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
strummer 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 The Red Sox blow jobs only started since October, the Yankee blowjobs have been going on for over 10 years. ESPN HATES the Mets, even when the Mets were good from 97-2000, ESPN would always knock them. Any list like this has to include Bret Favre, who no matter what he does or how he plays, is never criticized, and is constantly praised. I don't know how Peyton Manning is blown by ESPN, he was never given any attention by them until this year. The Eli stuff is just because he was the first pick in the draft, it will die down. Basically, the most blowjobs come from the Football analysts, who for some reason, are afraid to criticize the other players. Everyone is great, everyone is tough, everyone is gritty and gutty. Football announcers from all the major Networks are the worst at giving blind praise and saying nothing constructive. I don't think I've heard one announcer ever say anything bad about Favre, EVER. Football announcers are the worst in pro sports. Salisbury, Irvin, Bill Maas, Berman, Tom Jackson, they are just shills for the league. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Oh really, who gives a shit about ESPN? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Shadow Behind You Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Never criticized? They ripped him apart after the Philly game saying he needs to retire NOW. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vitamin X Report post Posted January 5, 2005 I have no idea why the media has been pushing him to retire so much, since most of the greats didn't retire until 38-40 (Moon, Elway, and Marino included, not sure who else) and the only one who didn't was Steve Young because of injuries. Favre still has that killer zing on his passes and veteran leadership. He'll make absolutely retarded throws (1st in the NFC in picks with 17) but he makes plays as well (3rd in the NFC in TD passes with 30, just behind McNabb and Culpepper) and he really hasn't showed any signs of aging. If anything, he's playing much better now than he was in his supposed "prime" (which, as anyone who's been at this board for anytime knows, is 28-32, 33+ you decline DO YOU ACCEPT?). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Positively Kanyon 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 Football announcers from all the major Networks are the worst at giving blind praise and saying nothing constructive. I'm glad to say that the football announcers here in Australia don't have that problem... If someone's having a bad game, they'll come out and say it. And on an unrelated note, you're football in America is so SOFT! Padding? Who the hell wears padding in a football game? We don't here in Australia! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
strummer 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2005 really? Don't remember that. That talk seems to have died down, as now he's "still the best in the game" Favre gets a free pass from ESPN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
