Fanview Lite: March 4, 2014

Joe T.

Joe T.

“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cab driver. Then they would really be educated.”—Al McGuire

Kick it!

Ever reach for something and stretch a muscle you had either forgotten about or never knew you had?

That’s how it feels dusting off this column.

What makes things start a little easier is knowing the Dodgers have sold Justin Sellers to the Cleveland Indians. The air is suddenly dewey sweet.

In regards to Clayton Kershaw’s slow start, I do believe there is a small “New Girl” curse happening here…but he’ll be fine. He just needs to find an old baseball card of Odalis Perez and burn it on the mound.

Preparing myself for this column comeback I looked at the Lakers roster and realized if you eliminate Gasol, Kobe, and that Canadian guy it reads like something you might see at a junior college in Colorado.

So this is March 4th…does a prep football coach have at least through the end of the month to leave one school for another without being tagged with the “he really screwed them over…” line? Or does he get a few weeks of grace in April?

I’ve been told we’re not done with transfers.

Speaking of quarterbacks…not transfers…former Mayfair quarterback Evan Hunko is attending UNLV and has his name in the mix this spring with those vying for playing time with the Rebels. Pretty cool

Hunko was a great guy, a good interview, but I remember when our staff talked about him at the office, back in 2010, we were most impressed with the fact that he wanted to throw the ball but only got 141 attempts in the Monsoons run heavy offense.

That was a 141 attempts over the course of a 13 game season ending with a semifinal’s loss to West Covina, 28-19.  Hunko was a team guy first. Gold baby.

Who do I like in the NCAA Tournament? I don’t know…Al McGuire’s Marquette Warriors?

Lately college basketball has interested me only slightly more than the Sochi Olympics.

I’ve been asked for my opinion about Missouri’s Michael Sam coming out as gay before the NFL Combine and Draft. Anyone who has been around me, read me, or heard me, knows my opinion on the matter of homosexuality.

In the past we’d get into it and we’d stop talking about sports, but in regards to Michael Sam I’ll share this. The world is changing and if a gay person can add they should be able to work at a bank, if they can heal the should work as a doctor, or if they can play football then they should have a shot in the NFL.

The question boils down to the same for everyone…Can they do the job?

Sam hurt himself at the combine with a poor 40 time and weight room performance. The NFL Network guys (Rich Eisen, Charles Davis, David Jeremiah, Steve Mariucci)…who hardly hold any of my world views…shook their heads and said Sam’s results make him more of a fifth round proposition than a third round pick.

Old school NFL GM Bill Polian had Sam’s back and said he was a better athlete than he showed at the combine and he expected all of his numbers to improve at his pro day. Polian argued that all the media scrutiny, talk, and interviews had probably worn the young man out.

I thought that was pretty good for an old school guy…but apparently it wasn’t for comedienne/sports talk radio host Jay Mohr. Mohr went on a rant saying it was because of guys like Polian and the rest of the media that Sam was worn out and that they should just leave him alone.

Mohr’s a Munson…and is really lousy at sports talk. He makes Petros & Money come across like Jim Healy. The truth is if Sam can play, Sam can play, and belongs in the locker room, but…the media scrutiny is something he brought on himself. Sam created the issue by coming out and the attention is nobody’s fault but his own.

So the question is why did Sam come out? He said his teammates knew, but was he afraid NFL teams might not draft him because of it? That’s a possibility. Or should he have waited to be drafted and then come out? Another suggestion made is he came out to gain attention and market himself upward in the draft.

Interesting to see how this plays out.

Regards:

In regards to “The Walking Dead”: I need a little more violence.

In regards to the San Francisco 49ers: By all means run Jim Harbaugh out of town.

In regards to “Survivor”: Go Cliff Robinson

In regards to the Los Angeles Rams: Do not draft a wide receiver.

In regards to VillaTheDevil: Welcome back.

The Dude abides…

520

Genesis 8:22

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