Opinion The 10 Least Prestigious Individual Awards in Sports
#10 – Comeback Player of the Year Award
The NFL, Major League Baseball and the PGA Tour all name a Comeback Player of the Year. This would be a fine award if it was always given to a player returning from a serious injury or personal tragedy. But more often than not, the Comeback Player award is given to someone who simply sucked the previous year. All this award does is remind everyone how terrible you were.
Better Award Title: Wow You Really Blew Last Year Trophy
#9 – Most Improved Player Award
Better Award Title: The Congrats on No Longer Sucking Award
#8 – NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award
NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver is determined by fan votes. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has won this award every year since 2003: nine consecutive years. Earnhardt, Jr. last won a race on June 15, 2008, and has never won a Sprint Cup. Even if another driver eventually wins this award, it’s forever associated with failure.
Better Award Title: Dale Junior Cup or Congratulations On Being Loved By Moron NASCAR Fans Who Will Fall In Love With Whoever Is Marketed The Most Via Cheap Plastic Collectibles No Matter How Lousy Of A Driver He May Actually Be Trophy
News Anti-Bullying Campaigns Leaving Youth Football Programs Without Linemen
“Through the hard work of thousands of educators and volunteers nationwide, we have helped make American schools a more welcoming, inclusive and respectful place for all students,” said Sharon McIntyre, president of the Stop Bullying Now Coalition. “The results have been overwhelmingly positive.”
But not everyone agrees. While the outreach has reduced bullying, it has also seen youth football participation — particularly among larger boys who play offensive and defensive line — plummet.
“This anti-bullying push is killing football in this country,” said Robb Medowski, who runs youth football camps throughout the Midwest. “We need huge, angry, hate-filled children who like inflicting pain on others, especially on the line of scrimmage. While life may be better for the nerds and pansies, we could be 10 to 15 years away from not having any linemen. I don’t think America wants that to happen.”
Anti-bullying programs universally stress compassion and non-violence, while football encourages players to be violent and merciless.
“People want to call them ‘bullies,’ well I call them the future star left tackles of the NFL,” said Medowski. “Show me any good linemen in the pros today, and I’ll show you someone who spent his childhood beating up dweebs. Take that intolerance and aggression away and you’re left with a giant flower arranger. Flower arrangers don’t make NFL money or fill stadiums with people.”
Opinion 15 Ways Your Mother Prevented You from Reaching Your Superstar Athlete Potential
2. Making you eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. So much for growing into the obese body of an NFL offensive lineman. Child obesity leads to NFL riches. Read a parenting book, mom!
3. Teaching you how to read. It’s not a coincidence that no SEC school ever contacted you about playing after that. What was she thinking in teaching you about thinking?
4. Limiting your hours playing video games. Mom, you idiot, it’s impossible to learn how to read a defense if you play less than five hours of Madden a day.
5. Making you go to bed at a reasonable time. You could have gotten a lot of training done at 2:00 a.m. when you were a little kid. You were robbed of countless extra practice time. Way to screw that up, MOM!
Opinion 8 Sports Mascots and Their Cat Look-A-Likes!!!
Charlotte Bobcat = a bobcat!
Kentucky Wildcat = a wildcat!
Video The Best Play from Spring College Football
With that sort of athleticism, why is he at Lincoln University?
Opinion The 25 Funniest Athlete Names in Sports History
From more than 220,000 reader votes on nearly 70 athlete names …
#25 – Dean Windass
Fun Fact: Windass, a striker for Scarborough Athletic, creates space on the pitch with his violently smelly farts.
