What do we think of new member of the football HOF Jerry Rice? He called Tom Brady a cheater, yet admitted to using stickum his entire career to help catch footballs. Stickum was banned by the NFL 4 years BEFORE his rookie season. Said he used it to get an edge–just part of the game. Hypocrite? Discuss.
I see saintfankitty has already made the transition to baseball.
Argh! Why do I keep getting duplicate posts?
Jerry Rice is typical of any player: they say stupid things to justify why their team was better than this current team and why they were better. Remember, I posted Tim Brown saying that with today’s passing offense he’d get 10 more balls thrown to him a game, that he’d catch 5, etc., meaning he’d be averaging over 140 catches a season. The word for that is delusional. They all do this mental game of egos.
Notrichenough, does that mean you won’t buy a signed copy of * Hit A Grand Slam* that I actually stood in line to get signed by the once golden boy himself in 1998?
:-S
How times have changed.
Walsh, Montana, and Rice’s careers are now tainted by Rice’s cheating. Somebody needs to ask Montana how it feels to be exposed as a cheater and what we should tell the children.
Oh, and Aikman needs to answer a few question, too. His coach, Jimmy Johnson has ackowledged cheating by taping opposing teams’ defensive signals. Troy, what should we tell the children?
I’ve been sitting here with the snow coming down looking at the NFL.com’s quick stories about each team’s free agent issues and needs. Some are outright ridiculous: the Indy one is all about a need for offensive balance. They mention a 45-7 loss to NE but somehow the 45 gets lost so they need more offensive balance. Most of the piece is about running backs and the need for a more overpowering offensive line. And then they happen to mention being run over.
The Jets one is almost as silly. Did you know they “rebooted the machine”? They hired Charlie Casserly as advisor and, huge surprise, he brought in as GM the director of scouting from Houston where Casserly was GM. And they hired another defensive coordinator as coach. Maybe they’ll be great but it sounds more like another Woody Johnson wooden headed move. Since it’s a big market, they actually speculate the Jets would let Damon Harrison walk over money and then would go out and sign Suh for much more. Cognitive dissonance.
The Jets have almost $50mil in cap space for 2015. They can afford Suh if they want. I wouldn’t count on them keeping Percy Harvin for $10.5mil either, they can cut him with no cap consequences and get another $10.5mil to spend. Plus the draft pick they gave up for him goes from a 4th to a 6th if they cut him by March 19.
They should be spending their money on the offense though.
Butler made a second interception.
Shake it off if you don’t want to see it. 
It’s Indy. Their junkie owner and rat GM are the idiots who traded a first round pick for Trent Richardson. If they had any sense, they’d stock up on defense because Brady and Belichick will be trying to score a hundred on 'em in next year’s game…
Or here’s an idea. Instead of worrying about offensive balance, maybe the Colts should be worrying about the balance of their dope addict owner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqbteiNA9E
What should we tell the children?
A brilliant football mind:
And speaking of Oxycotin Irsay’s boy Peyton Manning, did you hear that Tom Brady called him the other day?
Got his answering machine:
PEYTON’S MACHINE: You have reached the greatest QB in the history of the NFL. Please leave a message at the tone…
TOM BRADY: Oh, hi Peyton. I was surprised to get your message after just one ring
See, that’s the kind of thing Seahawk Nation didn’t do last year. The gratuitous digs.
Seadderall Nation? 
What do we tell the children?
Oh clever. Another gratuitous dig. Stay classy, Patriot Nation.
Well . . . in my kid’s case I tell him, “Don’t forget to take your Adderall.”
In NE, there’s been an actual rivalry with Peyton (and mostly the Colts) since Brady took the job at QB. We love the guy. We really do. We also hate the guy because as many times as he’s bleeped in big games he’s also killed us. So when we make jokes about Peyton, it’s in a context in which we feel he’s a huge part of a shared history for 14 years. Everyone remembers the “Cut that Meat” game when he bleeped up the field in the AFC Championship Game and the entire crowd chanted from his commercial. And everyone remembers him throwing the TD that took the AFC 38-34 when the Super Bowl was the Bears.
It’s like when the Red Wings ran up a big score on Patrick Roy and the Avs in the West final and the entire Joe Louis crowd was chanting “Pa-trick! Pa-trick!” Love and hate. That guy killed us. Took away a Cup or two because those teams, the Wings and Avs, outmatched the East.
My daughter, the Swarthmore grad, has three football shirts that she alternates wearing to watch games in DC. One is a Brady jersey (bought to replace her now-retired Welker jersey).
The second is her Peyton shirt. The front says I HATE PEYTON. The back says AND ELI S&%KS TOO!
The third is her officially licensed NFL commemorative PATRIOTS PERFECT SEASON 19-0 shirt that she got in Rwanda where they were dumped after the 2007 SuperBowl.
She’s a happy camper. Not only did the Patriots win the SuperBowl, but she won $100 for finishing second picking games in her season-long pick 'em league.
hahahahah!!! Eli sucks–the guy the Pats can’t beat when it counts. Lovely shirt.