Subj : Hmmm
To   : All
From : Ed Grinnell
Date : Sun Jun 11 2000 08:34 am

I have to laugh at all the Arena Football dreamers. You keep hearing about how 
Kurt Warner made it so "great for us" but the fact is that if Warner had spent 
all his time in Arena Football, he wouldn't have gotten a tryout. While the AFL 
gave him a chance to play regularly, it wasn't until he took time to go to NFL 
Europe that he showed the NFL that he could play against NFL players. While NFL 
scouts have been around the AFL and some of the players have been given 
tryouts, most of the talent is coming for NFL Europe and the CFL.

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For goodness sake, leave Ray Lewis alone. The man made a mistake in judgement, 
HOWEVER; let's not forget that the ONLY reason why he was on trial was because 
the prosecution was trying to get him to fink on his friends. They knew that he 
wasn't guilty but he did know what was going on. Those that are calling for his 
suspension are off-base. What Lewis and a lot of his peers need to do is to 
take stock in their so-called friends and begin to make a clean break from 
those that are criminally inclined. Oh, I know that sounds cold but I can tell 
you from personal experience that sometimes, you have to tell your friends from 
high school that you're tired of getting in trouble because of them.

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Isn't it amazing that years ago when players were talking about leaving Indiana 
because they were tired of the way that Knight treated them that the press 
called them a bunch of wimps and wusses and said that they were prime examples 
of what was wrong with "today's" athlete. Now, these same guys are taking the 
Hoosiers to task for not getting on to Knight sooner and saying that it's 
Indiana's fault that Knight is so out of control. Don't you think that if the 
Hoosiers had a little support from the media (as well as their boosters), 
they'd have done the "right" thing years ago?

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Despite the fact that Game 5 (and possibly Game 6) had great ratings, the NHL 
has seen ratings drop from the year before. For years, all I've heard from NHL 
apologists was that Fox was screwing up the NHL and that it was all Fox's 
fault. Once ABC got it, it was all going to be better. Well, it didn't happen 
but there is hope. If the NHL can keep people from seeing it as a goon's 
league, they've got a chance (The start of Game 6 didn't help). Fighting IS 
down, however; some of that is artificial. To be honest, fighting IS down but 
if you only read summaries in your paper and don't see the game, you'd think it 
was down even more. Some of those fights are called "roughing" but if you were 
watching the game, it definitely wasn't roughing.

BTW, years ago, a penalty situation stayed that way for the duration. Because 
of this, the Canadiens would score two or even three goals and teams would find 
themselves in a deep hole quickly. Rather than getting their players to foul 
less, they changed the rules so that if a team scored a power play goal, they 
went back to full strength. I think that this has led to a lessening of the 
effect of penalties and that the NHL should go back to the old rule. If not for 
all situations then maybe only for those situations were a goon used a stick on 
his opponent. Bring back skill to the game and let's get rid of the goons. I 
don't know about you but I get a lot more enjoyment out of a game if I see it 
being played as it was meant to be played.

--- TrekEd 1.00
 * Origin: Jerry Jones is the Anti-Christ (1:170/1701)

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