What the hell is my problem? I need serious help. I do not want Peyton Manning to win the Super Bowl. I am gonna pause for everyone in Tennessee to recover from chest pains. The scary part is I have no idea why not. Peyton is the hero for the college that I attend and even more importantly he is the adopted son of my home state. He put the University of Tennessee football program back on the map. He was the perfect student athlete in college and now is the perfect role model for kids now that he is in the NFL. So, why do I want him to lose? Let's break it down one by one.
1) He is a classic choke artist. Peyton Manning never beat the Gators while playing for Tennessee. We play them every year! You mean to tell me he could not beat them once. Manning has always played terrible in the post season in the NFL. He deserved to loose against Kansas City and Baltimore this year. I respect people who up there game when it counts the most. If Tiger Woods was a quarterback do you see him sucking in big games? I think not. He would play better in the post season than any time in the regular season. He has that killer instinct of destroying his opponents. But hey, UT did win a SEC Championship with Peyton. He did lead them to the Super Bowl this year. So maybe he deserves some credit. We are still looking.
2) Those damn commercials. Its a tight race to see if we hear "This is our country" or see Peyton Manning's face the most. I think they should just put Peyton in a Chevy commercial. That would streamline the process. Peyton is not a television kind of guy. He just does not translate well to TV. He is just a boring white guy. But yet the NFL and corporate America forces him down our throats. I would rather watch a commercial with a player with charisma. Someone who can make people think, "I wanna buy what he is using". If the whole Bengals team did a commercial for a bail bonds service I would think, "Man, when I get caught with my illegal weapons I can use the same service as the Bengals!" Now that's advertising. Peyton absolutely has no promotional qualities. But hey, he is (arguably) the best quarterback in the league. So why not have the most commercials. Is that enough reason to hate a guy? Lets keep looking.
3) The Manning face. Now we are getting somewhere. The different expressions Manning makes on the field are absolutely more annoying than Carrot Top narrating a movie with Al Gore. It just isn't pretty. He is always looking either constipated, frustrated, or just plain clueless. Every bad pass he makes you can bet on seeing the face. It is so annoying. Plus, you gotta look at it through that stupid facemask. Where did he get that ugly piece of crap? I would rather him wear the one bar helmet that old kickers used to wear. But hey, should I dislike a guy for the way his face looks. I mean is that really fair? We are not there yet.
4) Everyone says I should. I think we have found the answer. Everyone says that I should like Peyton Manning. Well, I just don't. I enjoy watching him struggle when it counts. The really bad part is that I am not a hater. I don't like people who hate on everything about sports.You almost can not enjoy anything in sports without people like Jay Mariotti and Skip "Senseless" telling you why what just happened sucked or could have been better. But I guess everyone has a breaking point. And Manning is mine.
These reasons may not be good enough to hope Manning loses the Super Bowl. But now that I have laid it out I won't be to upset if he does win it all. Afterall, he did go to Tennessee. And that counts for something.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Hey, I feel the same way...
Poor Payton Manning...
Post a Comment