http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/collect-them-all/Content?oid=1055131 I saw this in yesterday's paper edition, but figured I'd post it for everyone who doesn't have access to Portland's most lascivious and tawdry free weekly The good bits are inside.
Well, for some of us who aren't bandwagon fans (meaning this entire board), I am seeing the first signs of some people positioning a play-off appearance as a negative if one very large rookie isn't given more of a role in the offense.
Sorry, but I didn't find this hilarious in any way. I found it very inappropriate and disrespectful of someone so recently deceased. And, if there's one thing Duck wasn't, it's evil. I'm not a PC kind of guy and like a good laugh, I just think it's way too early to start making bad jokes about Duck's untimely death. BNM
Well, OK. That's not the hilarious part ... in fact the part I quoted is just the lead-in, it's the individual player break downs that are funny, not the part I highlighted.
I stopped reading when I got to the line about Duckworth. When I read something like that, I'm inclined to stop right there and not reward the author by clicking on their link and reading the rest of the article. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I just found it in incredibly poor taste so soon after Duck's death. And, if that's the lead-in that's supposed to make me want to read the rest of what the writer has to say, he's failed miserably. BNM
Maybe I'm insensitive (ok, I am certainly insensitive) but it didn't bother me in the least. The article was quite funny, I thought, but a bit shaky on the facts and some of the phrasing is rather curious: "plaintive blue-collar work ethic" "Przybilla's rigid height" "soft skeletal tissue of another man's face" "mauled in a bear trap" barfo
