Comments on: Hunger

By: TC

TC — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:39:52 +0000

That’s why y’all here win awards…y’all keep it real. No whiny writing here.

By: MODI

MODI — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:32:38 +0000

J, nice piece and welcome back. The arrogance that you point out in Araton’s piece seems to be more the rule than the exception from journalists who are not ex-athletes. I would be wonderful if every writer, at minimum, had to go through a trainining camp of whatever sport that they had to cover…

By: Eric Daniels

Eric Daniels — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:09:52 +0000

It’s insipid when some sportswriters think they are the final arbiters of anything of what an NFL player or any althlete goes through to get ready for a season. I have seen Doug Williams and many current and ex- pro ballplayers and you can see the toll this game takes on their bodies, It reminds me of what George Harrison of The Beatles said ” You Gave us your screams but we gave you our nervous systems and that’s the biggest scacrifice anyone can give “. Araton’s common man BS piece is a joke. Let’s pray for the Bills player who was injured yeaterday.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:50:00 +0000

Great piece jweiler.

By: GMP

GMP — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:25:32 +0000

‘And, while getting fingers caught in the keyboard is, I am sure, a serious hazard of the job, Araton’s not exactly putting his body on the line the way an NFL player does.’

Hey, carpal tunnel can be a bitch. And you know, when you sit down to type, sometimes the chair doesn’t support your back right. It is a perilous profession, to write and sit in front of a computer.

Elisha should never get any sympathy from anyone. What he should’ve done, is come into the league as a third round pick (and would’ve if not for the name), and should be the hyped up guy that is the starter in his 4th season after riding the bench for the last 3 years. Instead… well, we all know.

By: AWB

AWB — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:49:08 +0000

Please tell me that Eli is not getting toasted in the NY media for getting injured. He was balling this Sunday, but damn did they get decimated personnel-wise.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:41:44 +0000

Sportwriters are really bitches. Straight up. Soft, jealous bitches. It’s really, really sad.

Man, I feel sorry for NFL players every time I watch a game. I played ball in high school and was pretty good, and never, ever have I felt a pang of regret for not trying to push myself to play in the NFL. That is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, and while they get paid to do it, it’s still a much more pain filled job than 90 percent of the work most Americans do.

By: Temple3

Temple3 — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:22:42 +0000

“Are you not entertained?!?!” – enslaved General Maximus Decimus Meridius, Gladiator (2000)

By: Signal to Noise

Signal to Noise — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:42:28 +0000

Good piece, J — we can take the same assessment to First Take today, as Eli Manning gets savaged by know-nothings like Skip Bayless for not coming back in with a potentially injured throwing shoulder and “gutting it out” when he was the only reason the Giants were still in the game in the first place.

By: Sportsdiva

Sportsdiva — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:32:32 +0000

Me and my friends came up with a good way to describe how NFL players feel after their best games, when they come away alive and injury-free and this was co-signed by several players….

Every Sunday is like getting into a car accident. You know when you feel like crap, sore, dilapidated, 10 years older, scrambling for pain medicine, not sure if your back really needs to be looked at, unable to sleep well, wondering how long you won’t be able to lift your arm fully or turn your neck fully, hoping that that one Tuesday you get off is enough…..

By: des

des — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:15:32 +0000

Great post. I’m reminded of something that the editors of
Pro Football Weekly had to say about sportwriters who
question the severity of player injuries. They said that
if your worst injury was a hang nail, you are not qualified
to speculate on anyone’s injuries.