Vol fans are losers
by Zoltar on Jan 30, 2010 2:24 AM EST
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No, that's not what I'm saying. It comes from the pompous windbag Greg Doyel at CBS.
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/12800098/vols-fans-no-1-on-considerable-list-of-losers-in-kiffin-saga
what you did -- what Tennessee's fans did -- after Kiffin resigned went way beyond "disgraceful" and ventured deep into the heart of "frightening."
Tennessee fans, and in this case that primarily means Tennessee students, turned the loss of a football coach into a mob scene. They gathered outside the building where Kiffin was saying goodbye to his players and announcing his resignation to the media, and they chanted obscenities and tore Kiffin T-shirts into pieces, with one student stomping on the shreds. Other students burned mattresses. About a dozen students made their way into the building, where they were led back outside by police officers...
What happened at Tennessee was deranged. And guess what, Tennessee fans?
It'll stick to you for years.
As much as I dislike UT, this is a load of crap. I don't know why, but it seems like CBS is just a total cesspool of sports columnists. Doyel is probably the worst, but the stuff from the other writers is pretty bad as well. It seem like every article I read is uninformed, sensational (in the tabloid sense), and condescending.
Of course Doyel is also the author of this gem
SEC football 2009 has been living off its past all season, and the backlash is coming. Maybe it's here already. Maybe, as I channel my inner Barack Obama, I am the change we've been waiting for.
It's certainly not the other 'Bama.
Alabama? That's the superpower we're tired of waiting for. Just like Florida.
Overrated, both of them.
Pollsters agree with me on this point, but pollsters being pollsters, they don't have the guts or independence of thought to come out and vote how they really want to vote. So they keep flip-flopping Florida and Alabama from one to two to one to two, unimpressed on a weekly basis with the Gators and Crimson Tide but still conditioned, in their Pavlovian heart of hearts, to believe SEC football 2009 is what everyone said it would be.
And it's not.
Oh yes, that's it Doyel. If only everyone were as smart and courageous as you! He later went on to say that he prefers USC or Cincinnati to overrated Florida and Alabama. How'd that work out? haha.
Doyel... this guy makes Clay Travis look like... oh never mind. They both stink!
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Amazing how some people can make a living by having nothing to say about nothing. Must be his inner barrakosammabamma. Reat in peace, Ted. We all know how you really felt.
There's a reason nobody had posted that story up here in the two weeks it has been up:
Nobody here reads Gregg Doyel. After this, I can’t blame them. (Honestly, the article reads a little like Doyel wanted to take a unique angle; yes, “let’s blame the fans” is a unique angle, but a smart one? Not terribly.)
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
I actually read that article
Apparently he thinks that burning a t-shirt while singing Rocky Top is horrible behavior that will doom society forever.
by Incipient_Senescence on Jan 30, 2010 10:53 AM EST reply actions
Is he not a Florida guy?
That discredits everything about him.
Nothing to see there. Just another Florida fan spewing nonsense.
Official MCM Hater!
KISS MY GRITS
Kiffins lucky they did’nt Tar and Feather him and run him out of town on rail, and fer this Doyle dude and any other Bama Fan,well they can just KISS MY GRITS, Old Smokey
volman
Doyel is one guy I never even bother reading.
He doesn’t seem to bring anything to the table.
...just apologize for not thanking me.
From Doyles Bio
Gregg Doyel was born in Hawaii. He grew up in Mississippi where his father was a law professor at the University of Mississippi. Doyel attended high school in Georgia, where he was an accomplished all-state athlete, and attended college at the University of Florida, where he was a sports writer for the Independent Florida Alligator.
Ole Miss, Georgia and Florida? I wondered what that stench was. Arrogance!
"It's not the load that breaks you down - its the way you carry it" -- Lou Holtz
Attended college
Usually, when someone says they attended college it means that they didn’t graduate. Quitter. Loser.
"It's not the load that breaks you down - its the way you carry it" -- Lou Holtz
Looks like Doyel made 25th on the 50 most loathsome people in college football list
at http://heyjennyslater.blogspot.com/
25. Gregg Doyel
Charges: A pencil-necked, Mencken-wannabe misanthrope who ratchets up the cranky, constantly disgusted negativity of John Feinstein while stripping out any of Feinstein’s maturity or sense of propriety, Doyel’s every written word drips with bilious contempt. Not once has the CBSsports.com columnist ever offered any shred of evidence that there’s anything about college football he actually likes; instead, his every utterance is a caustic diatribe against a coach, team, player, or entire fan base that has failed to live up to his arbitrary standards of awesomeness. Doyel steadfastly refuses to demonstrate any tactical insight or statistical mastery, nor a desire to inform or even show a modicum of empathy with the fans for whom he’s supposedly writing. It’s just all acid, all the time, as if his regular column existed solely for him to demonstrate how cleverly he can piss people off in print. And there’s just no place in the blogosphere for showoffs like that.
Exhibit A: His column lambasting Tim Tebow for his anti-abortion Super Bowl ad was so acerbic that the pro-choice football fans I know felt bad for agreeing with him.
Sentence: Signed to a buddy-cop movie with Colin Cowherd, directed by the “Date Movie”/“Epic Movie”/“Disaster Movie” duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
pretty much hits the nail on the head, though I would have put him top 10.
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