Moving on?

Having ingested quite a bit of material about Rex Grossman, erstwhile QB of the Chicago Bears, I am amazed at the American sports fan’s willingness to overdose on such a non-topic. Or maybe it’s the American Sports Media Machine’s willingness to overdose on such a non-topic. I mean we have to fill the non-stop news cycle with something, right? So why not fill the airwaves and websites with endless debate?

Yes, Rex hadn’t played well in quite some time, dating back to last season.

Yes, that fabulous Bears defense deserved better from their offense.

Yes, it took too long for Lovie Smith to make the call to bench Rex.

Now that the call’s been made, can we move on now? And does anyone really think that Brian Griese is going to change the situation much? It’s been three years since Griese’s had any meaningful completions, and no matter what they say, we don’t really know whether Rex’s problems were all of his own making, or if that Bears O-line is worse than what we thought.

Doesn’t matter, really, how Griese does. I’m just glad that Rex Grossman can take a break from the constant oversight and Jay Mariotti will have to find someone else’s name to pun.

And again...

Gundy, Gundy, Gundy.

I'm telling you - it's all about the orange.

Is Gundy's outburst really THAT big of a deal?

Living here in Oklahoma, I guess I'm just kind of used to the football coaches at Ok State sounding a bit irrational from time to time. I mean, before he became LSU's Les Miles, he was OSU's Les Miles ranting about being willing "to play any sucker in this country."



Shoot - have you heard Pat Jones lately? He's nearly unintelligible!

Jones, the coach responsible for Gundy being an OSU legend, survived 6 straight losing seasons at the school and now makes his living in Oklahoma on the radio (what does that say for Okie sports radio?).

And of course, Jimmy Johnson had his moment, but with a different kind of Cowboy.

Living here in Tulsa, coverage of OSU is pretty thick. So when the leader of the Pokes goes a bit nutty, it's pretty wall-to-wall coverage.

It must be all that orange that eventually causes their internal filters to fail. Who knows. But when all the national sports coverage yaps about a local going crazy, it isn't a good thing.

I don't want to debate what was said or whether Gundy was justified or not. That's irrelevant to me.

I'm just annoyed that we get surprised when this happens in Stillwater anymore.