Over and Out

When people hear me talk, they get this sort of feeling that I'm cocky and arrogance and some may even say that I have a very similar mindset to the people that I talk about in my blog. However, I do not agrre with this "mind-set" that people are giving me. I just think that I am somewhat misunderstood. I generally like to think of myself as a very laidback, maybe sometimes a little bit egotistical, type of mind, who just likes to enjoy myself and likes to have a good time.

Through this blog I have experimented with new ideas through my analyzing of male sports athletes on a whole new level. Before creating this opinion that I have about their egotistical ways, I have taken a whole new, distinct, look on the professional sports that I have talked about.

I have engaged in intellectual discussions through my analysis of the male sports athletes that I have talked about. There negative influence on society is greatly and utterly impacted society, especially the media.

Lastly, I have exhibited respect for other viewpoints on the subjuect, by opening up myself to comments made by my readers and by engaging them with my use of videos and polls.

To go along with my mindset that I believe that I hold in myself, I have included a video of one of my favorite songs by Lil Wayne, Misunderstood.

Did I Miss Anything?

Here's a video that I think is fairly self-explanatory, just in case I happened to miss anything important.

"Now coach, you can't send him to the NBA. Let me tell you something now, coach. Did you know that they have guns in the locker rooms in the NBA? Coach, seriously, he's just a kid!" - David Letterman

When David Letterman told Butler University Coach Brad Stevens not to let sophomore player Gordon Hayward go to the NBA because they have "guns in the locker room" he wasn't joking.

When it comes to the NBA, it's fairly obvious to notice the progression of players in the 1970s compared to players in the 2000s. The general amount of "swagga" that players carry with them these days is certainly sometimes appalling and most of started with the rugged play of former Pacers star, Ron Artest and his brawl with the Pistons a couple years back. Of course people never would have thought that by now there'd be players such as Gilbert Arenas who would be bringing firearms into the locker room at halftime of an actual NBA game. It's blatenly obvious that things in the NBA have gotten out of control and I think that league officials need to crack down on this mindset of their athletes who think that they can just get away with whatever they feel like doing. These players are not good role models for the kids who look up to them, and it is certain that they have negative impacts on the people that watch them. Just the videos to see what I'm talking about.

The Lifetime Story of Brett Favre

He's old. Enough said.

For The Lifetime Story of Brette Favre we begin in the 1800's. Ok, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but com'on, he's older than David Beckham, and I already bashed Beckham for his selfishness and narrcistic ways. How could I not bash the man who, come every summertime, captures the heart and minds of millions of NFL fans for his ability to make a decision? A decision that he happens to have gotten wrong for the past 5 years. It bewilders me that he has yet to make the NFL Live segment of "C'mon, Man!" hosted by Keyshawn Johnson, for his inability to understand the fact that everyone thinks that he should retire. So I think that it is necessary for me on behalf of Keyshawn Johnson and all of America to say to Brett Favre's having not yet retired-ness..."C'mon Man!"

A Part-Time Player

Argued by many to be the most influential player in soccer (football) history, David Beckham's career has been quite the journey. Starting out at the young age of 18, playing for the English superstar team, Manchester United, Beckham was lights out, tallying up 62 goals for the squad.

Ever since Beckham's move to the United States, however, back in 2007, he's become quite the Brett Farve type of player. Let's face it: he's old, 35 years old to be exact. Playing professional soccer at the age of 35 is like playing football in the NFL at the age of 50. It does not happen that often. Not only is he still playing, and not retiring, he's doing so in terrible fashion. The minute Beckham stepped into the U.S., he tarnished any sort of good name that had been given to him while overseas and changed the way most soccer fans pictured him. He's been hurt multiple times playing for lowly-side, Los Angeles Galaxy, and has several times requested that he be sent to teams overseas to "keep up his game." His play has been completely selfish and egotistical, he's a disgrace to his teammates, and he's destroying any sort of credit that I, and many other Americans, have given him, through his phenomenal play over in England.

85, Ochocinco, Fünfundachtzig, Quatre-vingt cinq, Pětaosmdesát: What Will His Name Be Next Year?

The life of 85. "Wait, what? Your name is....what? 8-5? Isn't that a number?" Don't even get me started on why exactly someone would name themselves a number. To be honest with you the name Chad Johnson was perfectly fine with me. Does he hate his parents something fierce or what? Why would someone diss their own parents choice, a choice that had stuck with him for 20-some years, his own name, and completely go against everything that they had planned for him for the rest of his life, and change his name to 8-5? Ochocinco in Spanish doesn't even mean 85 as a whole. Rather, it means 8---5. His name is pronounce in Spanish: Eight. Five. Choices like these really reflect the egotistical minds that male athletes have and show their true colors. All they want is attention and if they didn't get that, I don't think they would be the type of athletes that they are today.

A T.O. for TO

As productive as Terrell Owens may has been in the NFL, his negative attitude and narcissistic ways have run him out of almost every team he's played for. Not only has he played for 4 teams, 4 of which all have had controversies with him, he's old too. Owens was drafted in the 1996 draft (the same year that Kobe was drafted to the Lakers) by the San Francisco 49ers. The Niners noticed that their newly acquired wideout was very outgoing (almost outgoing) and very noticeable, even in his first year. The first time that I had really ever heard of Terrell Owens (I didn't watch too much football back in the day) was the infamous celebration that Owens had back in 1999 when he mimiced the "dirty bird," the Atlanta Falcons signature dance and finished it off by "slashing" the neck off.

OJ S(tupid)impson

OJ Simpson, as good as an athlete as he was, is probably the most brainless and half-witted athlete of his decade. He is the only athlete in his time that is capable of putting himself in the senseless situations that he always seems to find himself in. From the murder case of Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, to the Las Vegas robbery that he was charged with back in 2007, OJ Simpson has always forced an ultimatum upon himself. That ultimatum is the same that defines all of the sports athletes that will be talked about on this blog. That ultimatum can be defined in one word: ATTENTION.

That's all that needs to be said about OJ Simpson. From his stupidity (my opinion is clearly stated in the headline) to the ultimatum that he has forced upon himself, Simpson is not capable of keeping the spotlight off of himself and will do whatever it takes to have the attention of the gerneral public, no matter what he has to do.

Kobe Bryant - The Grandaddy of 'Em All

Male sports athletes and their egotistical minds have always been on the minds of their counterpart fans. Stars such as Terrell Owens and OJ Simpson come to mind when talking about these sorts of players. Their those kind of people who would rather be bashed in the national newspaper, rather than receiving no attention whatsoever. These kind of athletes really upset me and it's sad to see all the talent that they possess go to such waste, be it in their actions on the sporting field / court, or off.

While there are many of these types of players, especially in this day in age (fans didn't really see too much of them back in the 60's, 70's, or 80's), the one who really led the way, was Kobe Bryant. Why some might argue that Terrell Owens was the first to emerge as the leader in this role, fans have to remember that it was Bryant, who entered the NBA Draft straight out of high school, and Owens who spent four years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Both have been in the same spotlight at some point in their professional careers, however, both for different occurrences.

Bryant's 2003 sexual assault allegations, jump-started him out of the hearts of many of his fans. It was from that point on that he would be ridiculed by many and hated by even many of his fans. It was not only this incident, however, that earned him the spot as being the "Leader of the Egos," but also his cocky attitude and consistent "ball-hogging" while on the court that I refuse to give him any sort of liking or appreciation. And I could not agree more with the words of Daniel Tosh in his "Completely Serious" comedy skit...