The Beginning of a New Journey

Well hello,

     This is all very new to me. It was pointed out to me recently,that I have an awful lot of opinions about a lot of different subjects. It was also pointed out to me that if I have something I'd like to say, the internet might be the place to say it. There is only myself to please as far as topic or content, no deadlines or editors to answer to. The ideal place for a sports addict with a lot to say to get their perverbial feet wet. So here it goes...


      I was greatly disturbed and dismayed by the ceaseless attacks on Jay Cutler this weekend. The worse part of the whole thing, as far as I was concerned, was that a vast majority of these attacks came from fellow players (of  both the active and former varieties). It's bad enough that the mass media markets blasted him on national television; but the endless attacks on twitter and other web based sites was astounding.

     In real time, as the game was being played out to its ultimate conclusion, were sportscasters, players, and NFL pundits all but calling for his burning at the stake. They called him a wuss and a coward, without having any information on why the man wasn't still in the game. They said he had no heart, even after he went back out at the start of the second half, and tried to play on his injured knee. When the coaches and medical staff pulled him from the game, They said it didn't look like he fought hard enough to stay in the game. What did you want him to do guys, jump up and down on his injured leg and yell at his head coach for pulling him? Would that have proved how much he wanted to play, or would you accused him of behaving like a spoiled brat?

     Rivers ( Phillip ) has been used as an example of how he should have behaved, bravely playing on his injured knee and leading his team against New England. What most forget, is that Rivers played that game a week AFTER he'd been injured. That he'd had treatment for a week before the game and was wearing a BRACE. None of that was available to Cutler on the sidelines. Lord knows what price Mr. Rivers will pay in ten or twenty years for that decision. And what would you be saying if he had stayed in and SHREDDED his knee on the next play? Would you be doing the rehab with him and trying to save his career? Would you help him deal with the career that might have been but for ignoring the trainers and his coaches and playing?

     The NFL says they're focusing on player health and safety, That starts with protecting the players from themselves and the MACHO mentality that says shake it off and get back in there.