Top 10 Least Thankful People in Sports
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, RealClearSports.com ranks the top 10 least thankful people in sports.
2. Roger Clemens
Want a sure-fire way to tarnish your Hall of Fame career in a few short months? Follow the blueprint Clemens laid out for you.First, have your name referenced 82 times in a report about steroid use in baseball. Then sue your former trainer, appear before a Congressional committee, and go under investigation about whether or not you lied under oath about using performance-enhancing drugs. After all that, have the New York Daily News report you once had a long-term affair with both Mindy McCready, who was 15 at the beginning of the relationship, and Paulette Dean Daly, the ex-wife of John Daly. And don’t forget to come across as a smug, arrogant jerk throughout it all.
5. BCS Haters
This slide could have just as easily been more broadly titled “College Football Fans.” According to the New York Times, 84% of fans want a playoff system to determine the national champion. With this level of unanimity combined with some important institutional voices — Pete Carroll, Joe Paterno and the soon-to-be leader of the free world — you might be tempted to think the BCS was doomed.
And yet, as much as ever, fans seem destined for everlasting dismay. The BCS and ESPN signed a television contact through 2014 worth $500 million over four years, meaning the BCS is too profitable to die. Moreover, it means we’ll continue to read more about the “season-long playoff” and watch a national championship determined by computers rather than play-in games.
Eighty-four percent of fans want a playoff system? Eighty-four?! So essentially the BCS is only making 16% of college football fans happy. Awesome.
Oh yeah, and Roger Clemens is a turd.
Posted in: College Football, General Sports, Golf, Humor, MLB, NBA, NFL
Tags: BCS, BCS sucks, college football playoff, John Daly, Mindy McCready, Roger Clemens
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Our poll last year at this time showed a 90/10 split in favor of a playoff, so I think those numbers are right.
Some complain about Barack Obama getting involved in something like this, and I’d agree if he were spending a lot of time personally working on it, but there’s no reason that the office of the President can’t step in and help to fix a broken system.