Unfortunately, I made the mistake of flipping on Kurt Warner’s press conference to announce his retirement.
Forty minutes later and I cannot put together a single cohesive thought to save my life. I cannot think of any other profession where one person’s decision to leave a job — other than late night talk show hosts, and we can all admit that is a relatively rare occurrence — receives as much press coverage as when an athlete retires. Football fans love to trot out the overused canard “football is a team sport†and “play as a team, win as a teamâ€, but deep down we know it is not true. One player or one coach can change an entire team. The foundation of talenljwrjklasdijpxamxsa’MKNFLDSndjkla HOW CAN PEOPLE WRITE THIS WAY?!?@!?@1
See up there? 20 seconds ago? Where I said “cannot put together a single cohesive thought to save my life†before the rambling started? Watching forty minutes of a football retirement speech has reduced me to nothing but a pile of cliches. No wonder “your local sportswriter sucks†was such a hit a few years ago. Where is the research on the damage caused by attending x-amount of pressers over the years?