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| Pretty Ignorant: Pro sports continues to "Dumb Down" reporting. |
I don't know about everyone else watching major sports on television, but I'm a fairly dedicated pro-football enthusiast, and I'm getting 'sick and tired' of watching supermodels trying to tell me about the game of football. These days, literally each and every sideline so-called "reporter" is knock-down, drag-out, beautiful, skinny and dresses like they're going to a New York fashion show event. These women obviously know very little about sports and it's obvious that they know even less about the men who play the games. It seems like all of these sideline "features" they report on, are stories that span issues of major importance, like; "What brand of chewing gum coach Pete Carroll chews?" and "What kind of puppy RGIII bought his wife for Christmas?" I have yet to hear one of these gorgeous creatures actually break down a simple game plan or offer a lucid thought or valuable opinion about a particular strategy or some insight as to whether the game plan would be changed by one variable or another. I don't know if these women even recognize the fact that they are on television for no other reason than they are beautiful, "eye-candy", holding a microphone. I imagine once more important is that they are wearing tight jeans, short skirts, low-cut blouses, and smile with their bleached white teeth and parade their spray on tans.
This isn't an indictment on women being ignorant
about football or any other subject; quite the opposite. This is a complaint
that the networks that televise these sporting events don't feature the real
women in this country who actually do understand the game and have intelligent
and interesting insights to share on the subject. I would just prefer to listen
to an average or even ugly woman offer some enlightening information about the
game, or share an interesting anecdote gathered as an observer inside the
stadium that folks at home aren't aware of in their living rooms. There is no substitute for actually playing
the game; being hit hard by a 250 lb. middle linebacker, or delivering a shoulder
pad "Form Tackle" to the solar plexus of a quarterback, or throwing a
touchdown winning "bomb" to a wide receiver on a deep seam route, but
there are other ways to be knowledgeable about the game and how it's played.
There are women in this world who truly do
understand the game of tackle football, even though they've never had the
opportunity to put on helmets and shoulder pads and play. Reading books about; the game rules, positions
objectives, strategies and various coaches styles used in games, are all very
good ways to learn about the game, but there's nothing like learning the game
by simply watching it in the various stadiums venues around the country.
This brings me to "Mr. John Clayton" the
ipso facto point of what a "real journalist", a "real
reporter", a "real football analyst" should be:
andis no is a andwill the and is a is a a a aJohn Clayton of ESPN Radio and Television, a
"real honest to goodness accomplished journalist", may be the best
example of the theory, "it's not necessary to play the game in order to
understand its strategy and overall objectives." Clayton is a master of NFL football, with a
keen understanding of, contract terms and negotiations, and with an eidetic
memory of seemingly every player in the NFL.
He is a wealth of information, with an endless energy, actually visiting
all 32 franchises training camps to report their progress and how each team's
roster is shaping up for the new season.
He is a prolific writer who often writes his regular column
"Clayton's Mailbag" from his car on his laptop PC from the various
locations around the country that he visits. Clayton looks more like a
librarian or an astrophysicist than the preeminent NFL insider, as
"high-in-demand" as it gets to the hundreds of network radio affiliates
around America and a regular NFL news authority on ESPN programming. Being the
first to admit it, John wouldn't win any awards for his "Sauvé and
Debonair" demeanor, and wouldn't likely grace the cover of
"Gentleman's Quarterly" for his handsome mug and fashionable attire.
However, if you want to know "First" what's going on in the world of
professional football, why is going on and what to expect in the future; John
Clayton is your man and everyone in the industry knows it.
ESPN's, John Clayton, is what the NFL needs more of,
and Nicole Zalomus and Molly Kiram, the girls of the weekly morning show,
"NFL A.M."… Well, let's just say this is what Pro football could use
less of it… They are perky, they are cute and they are scantily dressed…
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