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Friday Fryer (January 26, 2007)

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by user Christof

a look at the sports week's biggest losers
by Christof

Welcome to the Friday Fryer, where we take a look at who was the sports' world's biggest idiot this week. Winter has finally arrived here in the eastern United States, where all of the major cities have ordered their hookers to be de-iced. Nonetheless. without further ado, let's go take at our three finalists and, of course, the person or team being dipped into the Fryer....


THE FINALISTS
Boston Celtics
Oh my! What has happen to the great eastern pro basketball teams? The New York Knicks are simply bad and are going no where. The Philadelphia 76ers were on pace to have the worse record in the NBA after the team traded away Allen Iverson and brought out Chris Webber. But, lo and behold, the Boston Celtics have become a challenger for worse record in the league.

The Celtics did not win a game this week! Nor have they won a game in the last ten. The Celtics winning percentage is now worse than the Sixers. That is just brutally bad. Hence, the Celtics have earned a Friday Fryer nomination this week. Like everything else, they may have gotten the nod, but still lost the race. Way to go, men in green!

 
Terrell Owens
Guess who got another Friday Fryer nomination this week! Yes, my friends, it is none other than Dallas Cowboys wide-receiver Terrell Owens. For real, nominating him is getting to easy. Whenever he opens his mouth to the press, he is almost assured a Fryer Chair nomination.

This week, Mr. T.O. threw retiring head-coach Bill Parcells under the bus. At least T.O. waited until after Parcels retired to do this. Nevertheless, T.O. mouth got him into the dog house yet again. Surprisingly, the mass media hasn’t picked up on it, yet.

T.O., in his comments, compared Parcells to his grandmother in that they are both stuck in their way of thinking. The problem with this is that T.O.’s grandmother has Alzheimer’s Disease. This was made clear during T.O.’s failed attempt to get more money out of the Philadelphia Eagles (i.e. – the teary eye interview he gave during the early stages of 2005).

So, my question is, why would T.O. bring up his seriously ill grandmother to rip Parcells. That was simply wrong, and for that, you, Mr. T.O., get a Friday Fryer nomination this week.

 
Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants
The Philadelphia Eagles like to thank both of these clubs for extending the Eagles dominance over the NFC East for the foreseeable future. Simply stated, what are these clubs doing? Are they just desperate and grasping for straws, or just plain stupid, or both.

Let’s start with the Cowboys. It seems quite clear that Jerry Jones picked T.O. over Bill Parcells. So T.O. will be on the team next year, which will be his second year on the club. His second year in San Francisco and Philadelphia were less than ideal. This is then followed by the Cowboys announcing their new offensive coordinator, without first naming a head coach. You all see the train wreck where this is heading?

Now, lets turn our attention to the Giants. The Giants picked the Eagles linebacker’s coach as their new defensive coordinator. This may sound good, picking off a coach from a divisional rival, however, the Eagles linebacker corps killed them defensively this year. They were simply horrible. Nonetheless, the Giants took a wing and a prayer with this selection. The Giants are also in the process of selecting a new offensive coordinator. They are suppose to interviewing the quarterback’s coach of the Dallas Cowboys. I guess the Giants didn’t see the tape of Tony Romo over a month of the season.

Anyway, the Cowboys and Giants earn a Friday Fryer nomination for mistakes that are going to cost them many a game in the future. Eagles fans, however, are thankful of this!


AND THE LOSER IS . . .


The NHL

Can someone please explain to me what the NHL is doing? They shut down the league for six, SIX!, whole days, for the All-Star Game. This is first All-Star game in three years. Two years ago, it was cancelled, along with the rest of the season, because of the lockout. Last year, it was cancelled because of the Olympics.

So after a three-year hiatus, I was ready to see the Skills Competition and All-Star game on a weekend. But wait, the NHL decided not to have the All-Star game on the weekend, but in the middle of the week! And was there even a skills competition? If so, I must have missed it, because I could not find it on T.V.!

Hockey, if played properly, is the most exciting sport known to mankind. The fools that run the NHL, however, have no clue of this fact. The league is running the sport like the crew of the Titanic did, right into an iceberg!

It is truly sad that I see a dim future for the sport, not because it is boring, but because the powers that be in the sport are out of touch and beyond hope. For this, the NHL gets the Friday Fryer Chair for this chilly week!

Until next week, AMF!



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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1039 days ago
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I love the smell of the fryer on a Friday morning, it's the smell of VICTORY!
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
1039 days ago
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The NHL should have an All-Star Game in the All-Star weekend. And it should be North America v World, not East v West. The NHL should use the same rules as the rest of the world too, i.e. no "restricted zone", no two line passes, wider rink. The schedule is dodgy too. So much potential, but so poorly run.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1039 days ago
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no, give me East v West, it's the NHL All Star game, that's how they play all season. Save the country stuff for the Olympics and Worlds...
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
1039 days ago
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Chris as a columnist. Still boggles the mind...
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
1039 days ago
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not only that, but he's got regular fans!!! Fry 'em all!
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EnyboDiv-I Stud
1039 days ago
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Wait, are the Celtics on here because they won or because they have a bad winning percentage. Their record gives them a better shot at Oden, unless he truly does stay in college. Winning for them is a bad thing, so I can understand why they are getting fried.
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KelsdadAll-Star
1039 days ago
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The NHL are losers for cancelling a season, for blowing a national TV deal, for having an All-Star game on a Wednesday, for having a commissioner who thinks marketing is going to the grocery store, for having the worst pension fund in sports, and for having a majority of their players with names that can only be pronounced by their family members. What they should do now is shut down again and blow the league up and start over. Eliminate a half dozen franchises, get a deal with ABC or CBS for a game of the week, market the top player on each team geographically, cut ticket prices and take it from there.
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Anonymous Fanatic #2
1038 days ago
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Wait, you're serious?!
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KelsdadAll-Star
1038 days ago
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Sure, why not? It's not like things could get any worse.
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Bobbyjim45Draft Pick
1038 days ago
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I'm predicting a third-to-last place finish for the Celtics. Just good enough to miss out on Oden and Durant, then they'll probably trade the pick for JJ Redick and a box of Cracker Jacks.
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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
1036 days ago
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By "box of craker jacks" do you mean, "Adam Morrison"?
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