Skippy

It's been a while since we've blasted Skip Bayless here in B-Slant country, but the time has come yet again. Please read this. When finished, please refer to the following reasons why Vince Young is not the greatest thing since sliced bread.

1. Sidearm throwing motion. Skippy discounts it, Dwight Freeny, Richard Seymour, Mike Peterson, Lavar Arrington, and everyone else who ventures to block passes do not. David Carr throws over the top.

2. Vince Young, one great game against great competition. 2.9 years of good games against decent competition. Reggie Bush, 3 years of incomparable games against better competition.

3. UCS is better than Texas, Rose Bowl notwithstanding. Texas is the national champion, USC is better.

4. Reactionary thinking has led to: Vietnam, both Gulf Wars, Kyle Boller's job, Raef LaFrentz's contract, Mo Vaughn's contract, Mike Martz's (until recently) continued employment. Shall I continue?

5. Michael Jordan is the best athlete of my generation, and the best basketball player ever. To even use the word Jordanesque in almost any sense is moronic and insulting to MJ. To use it to refer to a college football player who didn't even win the Heisman is unfair to Young and totally Skip-iffied (my new term for all things related to Skip).

6. Vick was better than Young in college. Cunningham was a running machine. Culpepper has been a Pro-Bowler. McNabb has played in a Super Bowl. They all threw the ball like someone with differing chromosomes, Young does not. Furthermore, he's just not fast enough to pull the drop back, pretend to pass for a split second and then run garbage, that he pulled against USC. Even Vick isn't fast enough to get away with that and he's the fastest man in pro sports.

7. Skip Bayless's endorsement = guaranteed failure.

God I hate Skip Bayless for forcing me into late night, marginally mentally affected blogging!