Posted on 01/21/2007 7:25:56 PM PST by elhombrelibre
Gimme a break. It's a pretty standard thing to shake hands after the game. It's part of good sportsmanship. The fact that you can't seem to grasp that speaks volumes about you.
Who would want to go to the Bowl for a February game in Chicago or Green Bay or anywhere cold.
Maybe he should have shoved cameramen, the way your hero Belichick does.
I honestly didn't believe Peyton was going to lead them 80 yards in 2 minutes. He proved me, and many people, wrong. Now he has to do it one more game. I hope he does, but it will be a real challenge. Maybe now he won't have to battle his nerves too.
More specifically, would the corporate bigwigs want to go to somewhere cold.
The fact that you're making such a Mt. Everest out of this pimple speaks volumes about you, and that you have nothing else to do with your time today. Someone from NYC lecturing others on sportsmanship . . . from the ridiculous straight into the sublime . . .
HG, you shouldn't be THAT upset. I mean, your team did choke like a big dog and all, but it's really nothing to get so upset about.... Nobody likes a Mr. Gruff now, do they? Really, let's smile the clouds away. Let's turn that frown UPside down. It takes hundreds of muscles to frown but only two to smile! Don't worry, you'll get 'em next year!
There, doesn't that feel better? Or are we still a little sore? C'mon HG.... Give us a smile!....
The cameraman was in the way. But that's symptomatic of the entire idiocy with all this post game group hug stupidity. You've got all the players and coaching staff of both teams out there, plus a bunch of photographers, then with these conference championships you've got the league guys trying to setup the podium for the award handoff, easily 200 people out on the field and yet you think the opposing coach and QB should sit down in the middle of the field and some serious heart to heart abot the game. It's stupid, the whole midfield idiocy should end, unless there's an award to hand out everybody should get the hell off the field. Why is there a crowd obssesed with this metrosexual display of post game man love?! They're all in the league rolodex, if they want to talk after the game they can do it without you and I ever watching it, passing judgement on somebody for not wanting to hang out in the clusterf$%^ at midfield and swab tonsils is pathetic. Bill and Peyton will both be in Hawaii in three weeks, they can get together over rum drinks then and you'll never know it, of course that wouldn't stop you from saying stupid things about sportsmanship.
Ahem. It was only one week ago when Patriots' fans freaked out over LT refusing to shake hands after the Chargers-Patriots game. Now, when it's their beloved coach doing the snubbing, they won't even acknowledge that he did NOT shake hands with Manning.
Speaking of "from the ridiculous straight into the sublime," somebody summed it up well with the expression "your sour grapes are way past their expiration date." And for somebody wasting his day posting on a message board to criticize somebody else for wasting her day posting on a message board is pretty darned priceless.
Oh, I'm not. Compared to Grady Effing Little handing the ball back to Pedro, this is small potatoes.
Are you a Jets fan?
Somehow, virtually every other coach can manage this without being a jerk. Why is it Belichick who always acts like a twit, when other coaches (Tony Dungy springs to mind) can always act with class?
And, again, please stop the hyperbole. Nobody is angling for a group hug. But for pete's sake, when the opposing team's QB seeks him out for a handshake, it's the proper thing to do to shake that hand, and not carry on like a three-year-old.
Bill and Peyton will both be in Hawaii in three weeks, they can get together over rum drinks then and you'll never know it, of course that wouldn't stop you from saying stupid things about sportsmanship.
Speaking of saying stupid things....
No, I'm not. But I thought Belichick snubbing Eric Mangini was pretty classless. As was Reggie Bush's little routine yesterday.
Actually a lot of other coaches make a b-line for the tunnel and spend as little time in the midfield kumbaya as possible. Oddly enough that's one of the fairly common traits of the Parcells coaching tree, not a lot of huggers on that tree.
Again, when did public displays of affection become a necessary part of class? When did that memo come out? Tony is a hugger, Belichick isn't, some people are into that kind of stuff, some people aren't. I don't hear anybody in the league complaining, Belichick desciple Mangini public expressed disdain for the press when they started obsessing on whether or not Belichick hugged him after games, he understood Bill's not a big PDA kind of guy, what about that do you find difficult to grasp?
I'll stop with the hyperbole when you stop. Your complaints about this are 100% hyperbole... oops sorry I should say it's 1000% hyperbole so I can better keep up with you. Three year-old throw tempertantrums, kind of like you are, adults wh aren't into PDAs quietly leave, like Bill has done his entire career.
What was stupid about that? Will the two be together in Hawaii for the ProBowl? Yes. Is the ProBowl primarily a social affair where the players and coaches get together and relax? Yes. Will you hear about any time Bill and Peyton spend together? No. Wil you piss and moan incessantly about Bill's supposed poor sportsmanship long past then? All signs seem to indicate yes.
Stop trying to metrosexual football. So what if Bill doesn't want to wander around hugging people after games, how does that actually affect your life. Grow up and understand some people just aren't that affectionate in public.
For the hundredth time, I'm not talking about kissing and hugging. I'm talking about shaking hands, which has been part of good sportsmanship for ages. And Belichick somehow managed to hug Dungy, right before snubbing Manning, which kind of defeats your whole argument right there.
As for your Mangini argument, what was he supposed to say? Yes, I was offended that he snubbed me? C'mon now.
Then you must be a woman if this offends your tender sensibilities so.
Funny how expecting a coach to act like he's older than 3 draws all the "grow up" comments. Amazing.
I am a woman, actually. Some "Hemingway's Ghost" - your jabs on gender are more like Howard Stern's Ghost or something.
How many members of the opposing team does he have to give handshakes to before you'll be satisfied? Obviously just the headcoach isn't enough, would headcoach and star QB be enough? Or does he have to hit all the big names on the team? Maybe he should go through the entire starting roster? Can he safely ignore the waterboys?
If Mangini was offended he could have said so, he could have at least expressed some level of dismay at it. Instead he expressed dismay at the press obsessing on it, that tells you something.
Funny how the person throwing a temper tantrum thinks somebody else was acting like a 3 year old. Turn the brightness up on your monitor, it won't be as reflective then.
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