Troy from Westminster, CO
Sorry but “C.V.” is not a nickname, it’s initials. I long for the olden days of “Hacksaw” Reynolds, Billy “White Shoes” Johnson, “Sweetness” and the “Minister of Defense.” I get condensing names for simplicity but in the end most of today’s “nicknames” are nothing more than hypocorism.
And now I’ve learned a new word, one that is definitely not shorthand for shorthand.
Joe from Liberty Township, OH
It’s amazing what a major impact a bad team like the Panthers has had on the NFC. They trade Christian McCaffrey to an already-loaded 49ers team and make them even better. Then they trade for the Bears’ top pick last year to draft a QB but are so inept they end up handing the Bears a QB this year that many say is the best QB prospect since Andrew Luck. They possibly made two NFC teams perennial Super Bowl contenders. And they are still a long way from being a playoff team themselves.
As Norm Peterson so famously said one day when walking into his favorite bar to sit on his favorite stool: “It’s a dog-eat-dog world Sammy, and I’m wearing milk bone underwear.”
John from Rhinelander, WI
I love to watch college football as well as pro football, but the NIL where athletes move to wherever they can get more money and seem to show little loyalty to the original university is turning me off. Some universities are going to raise way more money than others to interest players. The table isn’t level. At least the salary cap in the NFL gives all teams a chance to compete at a fairly level field. Maybe they need a money cap for college teams? Your thoughts?
The college sports landscape will continue to evolve, especially with this House v. NCAA lawsuit settlement taking shape now. I look at the current situation as an extended, painstaking transition. Eventually, the high-revenue college sports will operate with structures similar to professional sports, with antitrust exemptions and the like. It just might take an awfully long time to get there.
To expound on my fellow Ohioan’s point (Liberty Joe) concerning the $50M Sam Bradford made changing the draftee pay scale, it also had the unintended consequence, if that’s the right term, of causing several undeserving quarterbacks to be drafted way too early. In other words, now teams roll the dice on borderline NFL starters much earlier than they would have previously: Winston, Mariota, Wentz,…
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