Listening to local radio this morning, and the newscasters are talking about the DEN/PIT game. One of them has come up with a "cute" top 10 reasons why DEN will beat PIT. Reason #1 is no man should have longer hair than his wife or mother, so Polamalu shouldn't be playing - or soemthing of that nature. Pretty banal unfunny schtick, which is fine, it's harmless.Then another newscaster starts in with why it's legal to tackle someone by their hair, citing Ricky Williams a couple of years ago. The female newscaster then chimes in, "They ought to tell John Lynch about that Pittsbirgh guy so he can go out & tackle him by his hair."
She has absolutely no clue as she is speaking that Lynch & Polamalu are both defensive players & that the odds of them ever meeting on the field of play are slim & none, and Slim just road out of town...Then listening on a local talk show, someone actually references this & comes up with this 5 minute scheme about how Shanahan should send Putzier down the field and then he should grab Polamalu by the hair & swing him around & tackle him by the hair, and that would take Polamalu out of the rest of the game mentally because he would be worried about his hair. 
I know that uninterested fans start getting interested in local teams when the playoffs come around, but do they really feel such a great need to open their mouths & show everyone what complete ignoramouses that they are? 
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She has absolutely no clue as she is speaking that Lynch & Polamalu are both defensive players & that the odds of them ever meeting on the field of play are slim & none, and Slim just road out of town...Then listening on a local talk show, someone actually references this & comes up with this 5 minute scheme about how Shanahan should send Putzier down the field and then he should grab Polamalu by the hair & swing him around & tackle him by the hair, and that would take Polamalu out of the rest of the game mentally because he would be worried about his hair. I know that uninterested fans start getting interested in local teams when the playoffs come around, but do they really feel such a great need to open their mouths & show everyone what complete ignoramouses that they are? :stepsoffsoapbox:
-QG
What a mess THAT turned into.
All we have are stupid fans.
Was thinking the same thing.
Seriously, I avoid most local sports talk because of the homerism of the hosts and callers. (Even though I root for the Indians and Steelers while living within earshot of both Baltimore and DC and have no teams being discussed locally.) What really makes my butt tired are the casual fans who wear the tinfoil hats, looking for conspiracies or controversies where they don't exist. For example, I took a tour of Busch stadium while in St. Louis back in the late 80s. The tour guide takes me and another guy ALL OVER Busch. When we get to the press box, the guide tell us about here's where Jack Buck does the game and over on the other side of a glass wall is where the visiting team's announcers are. Dude breaks out with, "Man, they must have to have that wall there to keep the announcers from fighting." 
Coming in second are the fans who only follow the team when they're winning or who will talk to me about my teams when they're winning and saying stupid things that show they don't follow the team. "I know you're trying to be nice by asking me about the Indians, but could we not talk about Joe Charboneau? He hasn't played anything but beer league softball since 1982." 
