Shots From The Darkside

Theme Release for fans of the Carolina Gamecocks. I’ve been getting some emails, so here it is. It’s something I found on another site and modded to my liking. Go Cocks!

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I’ve never understood overt racism. I live in the south, so I know people are idiots. But I’ve never understood the idiot that opens his mouth and lets everyone know he has no social consciousness. Enter the Spain Basketball Team:

I’m not sure why no one - not the company shooting the pictures, not the 16 assholes on the floor, not the country of Spain itself - thought that mocking the Chinese was good idea. In Europe, I heard a lot of ‘you Americans are too sensitive’ whenever someone said something inappropriate… like nigger or darkie or spade.

It’s a matter of respect. I’d like to think that no one has racist feelings. I’m not talking ‘racial’ feelings. We’re culturally different and it’s ok to mock some of those things. I like watermellon and chicken. My white fraternity brother can dance, but he cooks with no seasoning.  These are points of difference which make for good times. But mocking the epicanthic fold is a bit childish. Ain’t nothing funny about that.

In case anyone was wondering - shit like this pushes us backwards, not forwards. It pushes us further apart.

So it’s been a couple of years, and Eagles fans across America are finally facing some awful truths.

The Eagles don’t pay for players. They released T. Spikes after he finished the season #2 in tackles. Looking at the history of the Eagles when it comes to talent, they bleed it from every pore. It’s not strictly an Eagles thing, many teams let talent go a season or two early. It’s the new NFL where a guy can make the Pro Bowl one season and be let go in the offseason.

They should have listened to Terrell Owens. Let’s be clear, thru all the hub-bub, the Owens Saga was never about more money - it was about getting the money he signed for. In this situation, I see fans go thru degrees of separation just to stay on the right side of the argument.

• First they say T.O. signed the contract and should have played - a contract is a contract, right? Wrong, the Eagles don’t allow anyone to finish a contract. Even D-Mac is on the chopping block. T.O. was asking for the Eagles to guarantee his 49 million dollars, which they wouldn’t. Then they laid back and allowed T.O. to be T.O. His antics covered up the fact that the Eagles really never intended to pay him all 49 million. They signed that deal and then hypocritically cried foul when he demanded to paid. I don’t see the issue: he agreed to play for 7 seasons, they agreed to pay him for 7 seasons. Anything else is a lie.
• Then, they say that T.O. should have known better when he signed the contract - we live in a work at will country. Ethical issues aside, this statement is a cop out. Sure, a player is responsible for his own decisions… but a player is also responsible for his own life. Owens wasn’t asking for money on par with the QB he outplayed all season and the Super Bowl. He wasn’t asking for a raise, he wanted a guarantee that his kids’ kids would be going to college on his dough, just like every other elite player in the NFL. I don’t have a problem with that.
• Then, fans say they’re tired of hearing about T.O. This is dumb statement. T.O. didn’t make the rule that all players owe the media 50 minutes a week. He didn’t tell jack ass reporters to as jackass questions that provoke issues, either. He simply answered them. I don’t have issues with him refusing to dodge questions. I’m an honest guy, myself. If you ask my opinion, you might leave the room pissed at me, too. I only have one life to live and I refuse to spend it kissing ass and dancing around subjects.
• But look at Westbrook, that’s how it should be done. That’s an untruth. Westbrook came into his contract season injured. The Eagles had no intentions of paying him either. If so, why did they wait until the T.O. thing blew up in their faces before signing him?

Now look at the T.O. Experiment in Dallas. Google all the haters and mal-wishers who expected the T.O. thing to blow up. Watch all the broke-dick commentators wax haterific and predict a meltdown in Dallas. What has he done so far? He’s kicked ass and taken names. What did the haters do?

1. They invented the drop category to make T.O. look bad. You won’t find that stat in any database on any site anywhere. It’s purely imaginary. When the seaons ended, I recall a commentator saying that Marvin Harrison was tied for Terrell for drops. The Marvin dropped like 4 more balls - never heard anything about that drop category again. This did, however, solidified my love of Owens as a baller: his hand was broken in 2 places and had torn ligaments. A receiver’s hands are his prized possessions… they are WHY he’s on the field. T.O., determined to prove himself, played thru the pain and dominated… that’s when Bill Parcells bothered to throw the ball his way.
2. They blew his attempted suicide out of proportion. If it was a suicide attempt, the reaction from Philly fans was disgusting and uncalled for. Go fuck yourself, City of Brotherly Love. I don’t wanna hear any excuses, either. I can’t respect a city that brags about dicing up a perfectly good steak, mixing it with cheese and putting it on bread - it just ain’t right.
3. The Seahawks put up 29 unanswered points on the Eagles and the fans blamed it on T.O. Apparently, his powers for discord are so great, he caused DBs making millions to forget what they’ve been doing for decades.
4. No one noticed that the first football player to help with the Katrina catastrophe wasn’t the Manning Boys - who are from the area - or Brett Favre. Terrell Owens auctioned his championship rings and donated the money to Katrina. He was there handing out food to victims. Google it, you can’t find it anywhere. I only know because I subscribe to the feed from his site. I saw Favre and the Manning Boys on commercials, T.O. did his work quietly and only published a small article about it.

As a lifelong Dallas fan, I am supremely satisfied with Owens’ performance. I must admit that I preferred him with Donovan McNabb, though. If there was ever a passer whose skill set complimented Terrell’s talents, it was McNabb. I have to admit that I loved to watch them play together. I wish I could have seen them a little long. I wish I could have watched then in Dallas silver in blue. It’s really too bad that Donovan will never see another Super bowl - I’m actually a D-Mac Fan.

T.O.’s stat line since he got a completely guaranteed contract? 28 Touchdowns, 2500+ yrds, 166 receptions. Eagles fans need to stop whining on the radio and the forum boards and lynch management if they make Donovan walk the plank after this season. You guys ain’t even trying to win anymore.

For the past week, I’ve been listening to my athletic Director beg for money on every public forum available to him. I’m too tired to go into the details, but I’m tired of it. Money doesn’t buy wins, but it does buy some things:

• Quality equipment and good staff to ensure our athletes are getting the best physical educations possible.
• quality facilities that meet minimum safety standards
• Good coaches (Spurrier) who know what they’re doing.

Beyond that, money has very little to do with winning. We can add 15k seats to Billy Brice Stadium, but that won’t make Carlos Thomas a shutdown CB. He has the talent, but not the will. I hear that NFL scouts have been seen at his place for 2 years now. This guy is already planning his end zone dance. Building million dollar condos next to the stadium won’t make Mike Davis hold on to the ball. It won’t stop Darth Visor from calling a toss sweep in his own end zone or from calling 3 consecutive pass plays while his runners are averaging 8 yards a carry.

I heard a caller talk that Tennessee is dropping a quarter billion on its spots facilities. This clown said that big time sports teams have big time facilities. Right now we have the egg preceding the chicken. Schools like Southern Cal and Miami can have billion dollar gyms because they’ve won big time games, - not the other way around.

The time to reward our players is when the offensive line blocks consistently… when we don’t blow leads in big games… when we finish a season as strong as we start it. Until then, you stupid football players will have to deal with preferential housing, specialized tutoring centers and almost-bleeding edge sports facilities.

You stupid Gamecock fans have to realize - the athletic director doesn’t life weights, catch balls or make takes. The ONLY thing he can do is sit around and beautify things. For him, the answer is money. He sees the money big time programs spends and equates that with winning.

To dispell that rumor, one need olnly look at A-Rod or the Houston Texans.

Until then, we’ll be that cat on the basketball court with the hot Jordan’s, the matching Nike Jumpsuit and leather ball who can’t play worth a damn.

but it is, ain’t it? Listening to Gamecock radio, I heard our athletic director - Mr. Hyman - pandering for donations. The Gamecock budget will be a paltry 65 million dollars this season, leaving up 4th in spending. For people with zero athletic ability, spending becomes their only contribution to the project. We’re talking about a director who didn’t send a band or a cheer leader to the first game of the season. He only sent a Mascot the NIT tourneys. He’s raising ticket prices and I don’t know why.

The Gamecocks came 2 or 3 plays from having a perfect season. A few bad play calls, a few dropped balls, a few blown coverages, and our Cocks dropped the last 5 games of the season after shutting down some powerhouses. And Hyman is convinced that building a 200 million dollar weight room will push the cocks over the edge into contention.

It takes money to make money.

That’s one of those sayings that is more often wrong than right. Looking over the landscape of all sports, it should read - It takes money to lose money. See, Hyman isn’t raising prices of tennis tickets or baseball tickets. He’s raising football ticket prices. He’s selling 5 dollar hotdogs and 4 dollar diet cokes. I’m thinking that after all the tax dollars he’s pilfered from the state and the local contributions; he’d have enough money to send a small band and some cheerleaders to support our team in enemy territory.

Maybe the Alumni Band could sit with our fans during Homecoming. Maybe we alumni could have our ceremony during half time life we’ve done for 50 years. In the mean time, he’s selling everything in the hopes that some shitty CB from Southern Florida will come here because we have the best weight room in the SEC East.

I’ll wager that teams like Michigan, Ohio State, Southern Cal and Florida could get recruits if they had no weight room at all. I’d play for Miami for free. But our savior is to be found in a new wellness center that only stupid football players and fat softball players can use. Though, I must say, I loves me some fat softballers. Big girls do suck the best Cock.

Go Cocks