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Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Bucs to Me-Shawn: Pack Up Your Shit and Get Out
And now, Keyshawn Johnson has no one to throw him the damn ball. The man who has taken verbal shots against former teammates, opponents, and his own Super Bowl-winning coach, was, in essence, fired Tuesday for what amounts to being a pain in the ass.

Somehow the 49ers continue to put up with Terrell Owens' crap, but Keyshawn is no T.O. Owens, who knows as much about team leadership as he does about nuclear physics, has caught 34 TDs over the last three seasons. Over the same period, Johnson — "deactivated" in the middle of a $56 million contract that included a $13 million signing bonus — caught nine TDs, or three less than Ricky Proehl and six less than Bill Schroeder.

So Tampa Bay told him he's no longer welcome at any team functions, shelving him till they can trade him to a team that wants a guy who constantly overrates his own talent and is an All-Pro at only one thing: whining.

Mick Elliott of the Tampa Tribune reminds us of Keyshawn's publicly shared opinion of Wayne Chrebet:

"You're trying to compare a flashlight to a star,'' Johnson said a few years ago when talking about his former Jets teammate. "Flashlights only last so long. A star is in the sky forever."

Unless, of course, it burns out and falls to earth.

Or is declared inactive.

Even us Giants fans relished the sight of Chrebet catching the winning touchdown against the Bucs after Johnson's pathetic analogy.

The ultimate in Me-Shawn? Let this article in the St. Petersburg Times sum it up:

Keyshawn Johnson was featured in MNF's Mic'd Up segments and didn't disappoint. Twice in the first half Johnson took aim at Colt WR Marvin Harrison, first saying "when I play against my class of '96, I always dominate." Harrison, like Johnson, was drafted in '96.

After Harrison caught a screen pass, Johnson said "That's how he gets his catches. He's the best receiver, and that's how he gets his catches?"

We could point out that Harrison's stats the past four seasons dwarf Johnson's, but since he took umbrage with Harrison catching a screen pass and intimated the guy gets cheap stats, it should be noted: Harrison has 21 catches of at least 40 yards; Johnson has 2.

Here's who Keyshawn should be comparing himself to: me. We're both going to catch the same number of NFL passes the rest of the season.

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NHL Heritage Classic to Be Played in Front of 56,169 — If I watch one hockey game all year — and really, that's plenty — it'll be Saturday's hockey love-fest to be played at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium, which will host the league's first outdoor contest in its 86-year history.

U.S. Senator Requests Briefing From BCS — Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, is "troubled by the current system and believe it is unfair to colleges and universities that are not members of the BCS."

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Comments: Bucs to Me-Shawn: Pack Up Your Shit and Get Out

I hear tell there may be some vacancies
in the Raiders' lineup very soon.

Posted by Victor Conte at November 19, 2003 4:22 AM

Reading your post about Keyshawn just made my whole friggin' day. Let that be an example for those other arrogant pricks who talk trash w/ major attitudes who can't play themselves. I will take great pleasure in watching Keyshawn's $56 millon ass warm the bench. Also let that be a lesson to the people who shell out that kind of loot up front to someone who hasn't proven themselves. I am waiting for LeBron James to fall into the same trap.I agree that Terrell Owens isn't any better, but Terrell has the best body in the entire NFL so I will let him slide.

I can't believe that you bash hockey as much as you do. Though I can understand your lack of interest in the sport due to the Rangers being your hometown team. I would love to take you to a Philadelphia Flyers game sometime (in Philadelphia), and I promise you will have a good time. Possibly even start to like it. I love hockey and see it as a very sexual sport, but you being a man will not see it that way.

Posted by Cass at November 19, 2003 5:19 AM

Hey Cass, you should plan to go to the
Dec. 13 boxing show at Atlantic City's
Boardwalk Hall. There will be a record
eight title fights. It should turn you
on!

Posted by Eddie at November 19, 2003 5:42 AM

Cass--you see hockey as a sexual sport? Yeah, there are the kneepads, but I would love for you to expand on that commment.

Posted by PeeWee at November 19, 2003 8:25 AM

Hey Cass,
'
Enjoy your hockey because this year will be the last for a very long time... Talk about overpaid crybabies---see every Russian in the league..

Jeffcaw

Posted by jeffcaw at November 19, 2003 9:07 AM

Keyshawn sucks. I can think of 10 receivers off the top of my head that I would rather have on my team, and probably 20 if I had a little while to think about it.

He's getting what he deserves, the whole team oughta be benched. If they would just sit Sapp's dumb ass I might be able to root for them every now and then.

Taking into account that Tampa Bay is the losingest team in NFL history, they sure do talk a lot of shit after finally winning a few games last year. But, as I, and I'm sure many others outside the Tampa area knew, it was a fluke.. and they're back to their old familiar ways this year.

I'm a Dolphin fan and I had to endure a lot of shit talking last year... but it sure is sweet to know that even when the Dolphins struggle, they'll always be better than Tampa Bay.

Posted by It's About Time at November 19, 2003 9:32 AM

Forgot: About the Raiders players.... I haven't heard any plans by the league, but there has been talk circulating on radio/TV that these players could be suspended.... How? For what?? How would the league suspend players for testing positive for a substance that wasn't on the banned list when the sample was taken? They can't go back after the fact and apply a new law to an old situation, that's absurd. I'm pretty sure the players union won't let this one get by, but how the idea was ever even discussed, or why they're testing old samples against new rules is beyond me.

Posted by It's About Time at November 19, 2003 9:38 AM

I can't believe you rip Keyshawn forbeing such a complete asshole and then shit on hockey in the same day. Hockey players are the most humble athletes out there. They take their stitches between periods without novacaine so they can continue playing. Have you ever heard Gretzky talk about how good he is? or Brett Hull? or Steve Yzerman? How about Joe Sakic? I could go on and on. Hockey takes athletic ability as well as thinking on the ice. The thinking aspect is what keeps the "Keyshawns" out of the league. You should watch a game in person. Give it a chance before you write it off. You'll see it is an incredible game.

PS - Having played in college I can tell you that Cass isn't the only female to find hockey players sexy.

Posted by at November 19, 2003 1:09 PM

Hockey players are humble? Are You On Crack?:
Theo Fleury, Jaromir Jagr, Nikoali Khabibulin, Boris Mironov, Sergei Federov, Pavel Bure,

shall i continue or how bout i switch themes:
Eddie "The Eagle" Belfour, Jeremy Roenick, Eric Lindros (who wouldnt play for the team that drafted him), Dougie "knock the sitter up" Gilmour

Point being there are pricks in every sport, and yes hockey players are completely overpaid in comparison to football. They generate no revenue yet demand ridiculous salaries or else what do they do:: They Sit OUT!! Fuck hockey players...sport sucks and will be over as we know it at the end of the year.. Couldn't be soon enuff.

Posted by jeffcaw at November 19, 2003 1:33 PM

Regarding THG, the World Anti-Doping
Agency says, "Gestrinone is namely
included on the List of Prohibited
Substances and THG, which has a similar
chemical structure, therefore must be
considered as an analogue and as a
consequence is a prohibited substance."

Check out:

http://www.wada-ama.org/en/t1.asp?p=29626&x=1&a=78975

Posted by Eddie at November 19, 2003 4:04 PM

ITS ABOUT FRIGGIN TIME

Posted by HUGE BUCS FAN at November 19, 2003 5:09 PM

To defend myself...I am not a hockey groupie that goes after hockey players. The sport is sexual because of all of the stamina, sweat, dominance and ice (and the great asses and legs they all have from the skating)--i guess it is a combination of things. I have friends that play hockey professionaly, and dated a Flyer back in '98. I grew up on the sport because I came from a athletic family, and my dad was a huge fan. I love all sports, it is just that I am a bigger fan of hockey.

There are cry babies in that sport, too. The biggest is that pussy Eric Lindros. He was my neighbor in NJ while he played for the Flyers, and the day he got sent to the Rangers was the best day ever. I wanted to knock on his door and offer to help him pack his shit.

BTW, Eddie- there is nothing sexual about boxing.
Jeffcaw- your expressive anger towards hockey and it's players isn't healthy.

Posted by Cass at November 19, 2003 7:11 PM

Only in America can an athlete be considered a cancer by his team, yet continue to be paid big bucks while he sits on the bench.
Cass, I think it's already clear that Lebron is going to be a star for some time, and at 18, he's immature at worst. And hockey is sexual? Is it the sticks? The masks?
Someone hit it on the head when he wrote there are pricks in every sport. It's harder and harder to find good guys in any of them.

Posted by Neal at November 19, 2003 7:23 PM

And I'm a Giants fan and a Bill Parcells fan, and I was glad when the Jets traded Keeshawn.

As for hockey, in my opinion, there's nothing sexual about it. Hockey players, in street clothes and with their front teeth in place? Surely some are sexy. But the game itself, not sexual.

That doesn't mean it's not a good sport. Just not sexual, to me at least.

Posted by bhw at November 19, 2003 9:14 PM

First of all, hockey players are usually the first to pitch in for a charity, and do so quietly.

Secondly, my son plays hockey and at his rink there are several former professional hockey players who are involved in the club organization. One of them, a VERY big name in hockey, coaches his son in the mite (the youngest) division and is just a "regular" coach, no bodyguards, no levels of assistants to get through to speak to him- just a dad coaching his son. The former players whose kids play, and have become involved with the club because of that, are all also very approachable. If fact, I didn't even realize who someone was until I was casually introduced as a bunch of us hockey parents were standing around watching our kids play and chatting.

That's one of the biggest differences between hockey players and every other professional sport- while I'm not saying that other sports don't have unassuming players, that is the rule for hockey players, and seems to be the exception for other sports. They also give more back to the sport, without any expectations of praise and worship and media.

And yes, hockey players have well-muscled buttocks and thighs. Especially goalies- you do deep knee bends with 30+ pounds of equipment, most of it on your thighs, for a couple of hours everyday and you too will have a great ass.

As for sexy- it's the sensuous grace on ice that hockey players have. You just know that translates into something very good in the bedroom......

I'll take you to one of my kiddo's hockey games, Paul, and you'll fall in love with hockey.

Posted by lucy at November 19, 2003 9:28 PM

There are good and bad in every sport. My friend who plays hockey, grew up in Canada in a large family and little money. He makes more money then I will ever see in my lifetime, but you would never know it. He appreciates what he has and never forgot where he came from. He lives in fabulous estate home, but drives a pick up truck that is the biggest piece of shit.

I have met some very generous and modest athletes in other sports as well. One of the most charitable sports organizations in Phialdephia is the Sixers.

I find something sexual in every sport so don't read too much into anything I have to say. I love the tight pants and grass in baseball, and the cold weather and tight pants of football but there is something about hockey that make my panties wet. I am just a freak, I guess...

Posted by Cass at November 19, 2003 10:29 PM

Daddy likes Cass-
i play ping-pong, what does that do for ya Cassie? what color paddle do you like?

Posted by Grant at November 19, 2003 11:24 PM

I think we need to get Cass up here to NYC, maybe go to Coyote Ugly and talk about hockey.

Posted by Paul Katcher at November 20, 2003 12:53 AM

I would love to visit you in NYC and talk sports, while drinking beer and staring at beautiful big breasted women at CU.

Posted by Cass at November 20, 2003 4:34 AM

Yes....Canadians tend to be quite humble and appreciate what they have...whether they play hockey or not. It's the mentality and the upbringing.

Posted by Julie Ann at December 8, 2003 8:41 PM
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