Take heart, Atlanta: We no longer lead any league in stupidity!
Bobby Petrino once was a Bird. Now he's just a birdbrain. (AJC photo by Curtis Compton)
This hasn’t been the easiest time to care about sports around here. The Braves collapsed in September, made no moves of note over the winter and started the new season 0-4. The Falcons didn’t score a point on offense in their playoff loss, made no ripple in free agency and don’t have a Round 1 pick in the draft. The Georgia Bulldogs lost the SEC championship game by 32 points, blew the Outback Bowl and have seen much of their defensive backfield arrested and/or suspended.
And here’s where we cast our eyes toward yonder horizon and espy …
A silver lining.
Our sporting fortunes might not be all that exciting at the moment, but we’ve gotten past the point (at least for the moment) where they’re utterly stupid. For utterly stupid, we must turn elsewhere in the South.
• An SEC head coach wrecked his motorcycle with his girlfriend aboard, and he did it, appropriately enough, on April Fool’s Day. He failed to mention the girlfriend’s presence to his boss (or, presumably, to his wife and children). Apparently this young woman was so dear to the coach that he not only hired her but gave her $20,000. The coach was fired Tuesday night.
• A National League East manager gave an interview to Time and expressed an affection for a despot, saying: “I love Fidel Castro.” That manager’s team had just christened a shining new stadium in an area of Miami known as Little Havana for its preponderance of Cubans, many of whom fled Castro’s regime. The manager was suspended Tuesday for five games.
• An NFC South team condoned a bounty program that was in place when this long-suffering franchise finally won a Super Bowl. The NFL’s discovery of these bounties resulted in a year’s suspension for the head coach, a half-year’s suspension for the general manager and a six-game suspension for the assistant head coach. The NFL upheld those penalties Monday.
It isn’t just that we Atlantans/Georgians can bask in the warm glow of schadenfreude. (That’s German for “pleasure taken from the misfortune of others.”) There’s a chance our local entries will benefit from this run of misbehavior. The NFC South team is New Orleans, which has beaten the Falcons 10 times in 12 games under the now-suspended Sean Payton. The NL East team managed by Ozzie Guillen is the Marlins, who spent heavily on personnel and have been tabbed by some to finish ahead of the Braves. And the SEC West team …
Well, that’s a double boon. Arkansas was seen as a top 10 team for 2012, just like Georgia, and the Razorbacks were coached by Bobby Petrino, who ran out on the Falcons after 13 games in 2007 and stands alongside Steve Spurrier and Jim Leyritz as the biggest villain in Atlanta/Georgia sports annals. Our response to Petrino’s (literal and figurative) fall: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer rat.
There’s another savory twist to this outbreak of idiocy. For once, Atlanta hasn’t been the source of such gaffes. Goodness knows, that hasn’t always been the case.
We’re the city that saw its NFL team’s only Super Bowl appearance besmirched by the arrest of Eugene Robinson for solicitation only hours after he accepted the league’s good citizenship award. We’re the city that saw its NBA franchise snarled in court for five years because one owner balked at the trade for Joe Johnson. We’re the city that recoiled when its baseball team’s closer gave an interview to another Time-Life publication — in John Rocker’s case, it was Sports Illustrated — that offended nearly every ethnicity. We’re the city that lost its NHL franchise — twice!
We in Atlanta saw our NFL team draft Michael Vick No. 1 overall and pay him big money, some of which he invested in a dogfighting enterprise in Virginia. To maximize Vick’s talent, the same NFL team hired Petrino away from Louisville. (As it happened, Petrino never coached Vick in a game.) We’re the city where the Georgia athletic director Damon Evans took his swerving midnight ride up Roswell Road with a woman who wasn’t his wife and whose undergarments weren’t in place.
Over time, we in Atlanta have known far more than our fair share of ridicule, so you’ll have to pardon us if we’re chuckling at the moment. We were just named the nation’s most miserable sports city by Forbes, and you know what they say about misery. It just loves company. And here’s where we say:
“Pull up a chair, Brother Petrino, and tell us all about it. Heh, heh, heh.”
By Mark Bradley
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Buckeye
April 11th, 2012
1:45 pm
Thank goodness I’m a Buckeye!
Tommy Maddox
April 11th, 2012
1:46 pm
Good thing we have a good drum & bugle corps around town.
Buckeye
April 11th, 2012
1:46 pm
That photo of Petrino in Falcon garb almost made me lose my lunch.
Buckeye
April 11th, 2012
1:46 pm
Fourth!
some sense
April 11th, 2012
1:47 pm
Slit wrists.
GT Falcon
April 11th, 2012
1:47 pm
No mention of Tech, for good or bad? Like we’re not even part of Georgia. Wow.
LakeDawg
April 11th, 2012
1:47 pm
40TH. Ahhh, Petrino. Class act.
lanier
April 11th, 2012
1:48 pm
the only person to win in this jerks situation is the guy who was engaged to the chick. he found out she is a slut before he married her and had kids. lucky guy
blazerdawg
April 11th, 2012
1:49 pm
Marion Campbell should not be referenced in this category. Mora, maybe.
Tick
April 11th, 2012
1:55 pm
How ’bout Mora having to make a phone call during an OT game to find out what the playoff implications would be in case of a tie. LOL.
DawginLex
April 11th, 2012
1:55 pm
Atlanta still have Fredi?
Still stupid
Buckeye, you now have Urban.
Good luck with that!!
GT Falcon
April 11th, 2012
1:55 pm
Great article Mark. Thoroughly enjoyed it while eating my lunch…
Tick
April 11th, 2012
1:57 pm
I’m sorry we’re probably just limiting it to off field stupidity. Otherwise, there would be more Freddi Gonzalez talk here.
UGA Insider
April 11th, 2012
1:57 pm
Let’s not forget to mention to true Atlanta embarrassment which is GA Tech Football.
BigTimeTechFan
April 11th, 2012
1:59 pm
What about Denver letting go of Tim Tebow to sign Payton Manning, that was stupid.
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
1:59 pm
Let me just note something: The hiring of Fredi Gonzalez was widely considered a great move among Braves fans.
KeepDreaming
April 11th, 2012
2:01 pm
Bwhahaha, so great. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy. Karma’s a b*tch Bobby!!!
Dewnsav
April 11th, 2012
2:04 pm
Buckeye, really ?? Maurice Clartett…Art Modell…LaBron James…Jim Tressel
Herschel Talker
April 11th, 2012
2:05 pm
MB:
Anyone who is not a birdbrain realized that handpicking a successor from the Bobby Cox tree without interviewing anyone else was idiotic. Putting aside all biases, anytime someone interviews only one candidate, they are being quite short-sighted and closed-minded, wouldn’t you say?
HT
big b
April 11th, 2012
2:07 pm
Great article MB I would also add the twin idiots Marcus Cotton and 1st overall pick Andrey Bruce hoolding up the Pizza guy with a BB Gun.Oh yeah jerry G and his stupid West Coast Championship Trophy.
JB
April 11th, 2012
2:07 pm
SEC coach fired……………It’s always poon or money.
big b
April 11th, 2012
2:09 pm
Sorry, Holding. I hate this stupid Phone
Kobie
April 11th, 2012
2:12 pm
Great article and Mark you are right about the hiring of Fredi Gonzalez as well. Fans are never satisfied and the blog responses prove that. Fredi works with what he has. Now Frank Wren bashing, since he put the team together and Liberty for not spending money are actually better targets for blame.
LHardingDawg
April 11th, 2012
2:13 pm
The stupid thing that ranks up with Petrino is Evans and the red panties thing. Petrino should have taken the $20,000 dollars he paid his girlfriend as a bonus and bought her her very own motorcycle.
bison
April 11th, 2012
2:14 pm
One of the best articles that Bradley has ever written. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Herschel Talker
April 11th, 2012
2:14 pm
Buckeye:
Your school is a cesspool of filth and scum, and the recent Urban Meyer article shows that it will only get worse. Ohio is nothing but toxic waste.
HT
Tech Student
April 11th, 2012
2:16 pm
Dont worry, tech has had a couple of gaffs in the past few years:
Losing our acc title over $300 of never worn cloths.
Glen Rice Jr’s involvement in a shooting and dismissal from recovering basketball team.
GooooFalcons
April 11th, 2012
2:19 pm
A $20K “payment” to his mistress sounds like a abortion to me.
Professional Image Consultant
April 11th, 2012
2:19 pm
If we have learned anything from South Florida recently, excluding Ozzie Guillen, it is that the University of Arkansas might have had more sympathy for Coach Petrino if he had worn a Hoodie to that now-infamous press conference instead of that white Sugar Bowl hat.
Harry Harbaugh
April 11th, 2012
2:22 pm
I was ready to proclaim this the perfect column… until the last two sentences. Still an awesome read! Thanks for the German lesson, too.
Professional Image Consultant
April 11th, 2012
2:24 pm
Why doesn’t the AJC cover the marital “adventures” of one soon-to-be-divorced Arthur Blank with the same vigor they are so aggressively the said activities of one soon-to-be-divorced Bobby Petrino, a coach who left this city 5 YEARS AGO?
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
2:27 pm
I was among the few who tweaked Frank Wren for not interviewing others. Not that I’m ever right about anything.
http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2010/10/13/fredi-gonzalez-the-best-choice-as-manager-or-the-easiest/?cxntfid=blogs_mark_bradley_blog
Steve
April 11th, 2012
2:27 pm
Biggest Atlanta sports villains? I vote for Kent Hrbek.
Heisenberg
April 11th, 2012
2:27 pm
And there is also the Texiera trade.
Preseason 2008 Champs!!!!!
April 11th, 2012
2:28 pm
“The Georgia Bulldogs lost the SEC championship game by 32 points, blew the Outback Bowl and have seen much of their defensive backfield arrested and/or suspended.”
Seems pretty normal for a second tier team like UGA.
Preseason 2008 Champs!!!!!
April 11th, 2012
2:29 pm
“Buckeye, you now have Urban.
Good luck with that!!”
Yeah, good luck with that guy. I mean, what’s he gonna do, win you guys a national championship or 2?
Preseason 2008 Champs!!!!!
April 11th, 2012
2:30 pm
“Biggest Atlanta sports villains?”
The Yankees, Blue Jays and Twins.
Matt
April 11th, 2012
2:39 pm
Karma is a b.
back in 1995
April 11th, 2012
2:43 pm
Seeing the words Atlanta and Sports in the same sentence is funny.
coach joe
April 11th, 2012
2:45 pm
So will they dump Freddie if the Braves don’t pick it up? who makes the decision? Thank God for Chipper…. I’m from New Orleans, love the Braves and don’t feel a bit sorry for Sean Payton.. He lied and if we don’t sign drew Brees soon, Falcons won’t have to wory about the Saints anymore. Benson is a fool…
Great column as usual…
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
2:54 pm
I’d imagine Frank Wren has the responsibility of deciding if/when a manager should be fired, coach joe.
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
2:55 pm
Speaking of wise managerial hires … Bobby Valentine is 1-5.
B.
April 11th, 2012
2:57 pm
I was waiting (and hoping) for this article.
Dewnsav
April 11th, 2012
2:58 pm
Buckeye, really ?? Woody Hayes…Art Schlichter…
StingerSplash
April 11th, 2012
3:00 pm
Given Fredi’s fairly lackluster tenure with the Marlins, the intercession into daily operations from Jeff Loria aside, this Braves fan was, to quote Bill Walton, underwhelmed.
909
April 11th, 2012
3:01 pm
Building a brand new Falcons stadium, right next to the current, with taxpayer money ??
No. Atlanta still has plenty of “stupid” left.
coloradobulldog
April 11th, 2012
3:02 pm
BigTimeTechFan, if you think it was dumb for Bronc to sign the one of the greatest QBs of all-time and move a guy who throws like a girl, then can’t believe you have a degree from Tech. Or maybe you do and should stick to comments on engineering.
bigdon
April 11th, 2012
3:03 pm
Have ya’ll forgotten about “hooker gate” at the Falcons only Superbowl appearance where our starting safety, Eugene Robinson, just the night before name NFL man of the year, got caught in a seedy part of Miami
soliciting for prostitution while his unknowing wife was still asleep in their hotel room? It may not be the most egregious, but as far as over all stupidity, I gotta believe that takes the cake. I mean I KNEW the game was lost without doubt Superbowl moring when I read that he had been arrested and released on bail at 4:30 that moning. Thanks a lot, Mr. Eugene Robinson
bigdon
April 11th, 2012
3:04 pm
What about Eugene Robinson? Serious DA!
Steve
April 11th, 2012
3:04 pm
Who makes the decision to fire Frank Wren? The moves he has made lately and the hiring of Fredi, show that he needs to be replaced. The Orioles are laughing.
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
3:08 pm
How stupid am I? I plumb forgot Eugene!
He’s in there now. Thanks, bigdon.
George Stein
April 11th, 2012
3:10 pm
If the commentariat is any indication, we have no reason to worry about anyone taking our crown as the stupidest sports city.
Mike Lum Fan
April 11th, 2012
3:11 pm
Mark, aren’t ya glad that Valentine is no longer on Baseball tonight? Hallelujah!!!
JB
April 11th, 2012
3:12 pm
Braves will be a deal by summer.$1 parking and $2 outfield seats. The place will be a tomb….Just like the 80’s. Who owns the Braves now?
JMS
April 11th, 2012
3:15 pm
Just a sampling of add-ons: Kent Hrbeck wrestles with Ron Gant, Eric Gregg’s strike zone knows no bounds, Eugene Robinson gets to know Miami, Tech vacates ‘09 ACC title, UGA doesn’t bother to show for ‘05 Sugar Bowl (held in Atlanta, no less), Hawks’ endless string of draft follies, Michael Vick breaks leg in preseason game, Jim Mora, Jerry Glanville, Russ Nixon, Chuck Tanner, Rankin Smith, Lon Kruger, Terry Stotts and on and on and on and on…
SSIgator
April 11th, 2012
3:16 pm
“Take heart, Atlanta: We no longer lead any league in stupidity!”
Not any more. Mark Richt has wrestled that crown away and it will reside in Athens for quite some time. Well, at least until the suckers that shell out big dollars each year to watch UGA underperform wake up and realize what they have been wasting their money on. UGA football – Home of the ten win season, but no titles. 1980 – so long ago.
1eyedJack
April 11th, 2012
3:26 pm
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
www
April 11th, 2012
3:33 pm
some intern at the ajc should remind bradley there’s a team in atlanta that has won 4 MNCs. last year wasn’t an amazing year for GT either but it seems odd that bradley doesn’t know they exist.
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:34 pm
Well you know the old saying that misery loves company and there is plenty of sports misery in Atlanta and Athens.
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:38 pm
According to your colleague Schultz, Petrino got run over by the Karma Train. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
Mark Bradley
April 11th, 2012
3:39 pm
Do I have this right? Georgia Tech folks are upset about being left out of a column about … stupidity?
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:40 pm
Sonny Clusters……you out there? Waiting for some more entertaining commentary from you.
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:42 pm
Wasn’t me that complained about no GT mention in this blog Mark. Some Tech fans have a major inferiority complex about everything.
The rut
April 11th, 2012
3:46 pm
I was on the get rid of Fredi banwagon and long before we opened 0-4-When they interviewed him and heard “you know” every fourth & fifth word, what the h–l impressed Wren?
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:47 pm
I guess it’s kind of like the wallflower in high school who lives in the shadow of the head cheerleader. You know, all that schatzenfruede stuff. Or was it Schultzenfruede? And where is Sonny this afternoon? Clusters not Perdue.
beard
April 11th, 2012
3:48 pm
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey
should have just stayed at Louisville where they obviously do not give a rats behind just ask Pitino
DawginLex
April 11th, 2012
3:49 pm
Don’t worry SSI, Muschump and the slithering reptiles will always be one up in the stupidity and cover up artist department
Flattering article about your former coach who thrived on Timmy, the only class in that act.
How is that player doing who dragged his girl out of the house by the hair?
And by the way, you need to change your tampon and go douche. I can smell yo nasty self through the computer
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:50 pm
Somehow the name Fredi Gonzales jsut doesn’t fit a major league manager. We need a manager with a name like Sparky, Grizz, or Buster.
The rut
April 11th, 2012
3:51 pm
I really don’t understand how a UGA fan can get on here and blog with the mess that goes on over in Athens. . Why not just hide? Are you proud of your athletes?
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
3:51 pm
just
Ted M
April 11th, 2012
3:52 pm
I was one of those fans that thought Fredi Gonzalez was gonna be a good hire…I was wrong.
The rut
April 11th, 2012
3:57 pm
How does a UGA fan have the gall to come on here and blog? Aren’t you ashamed of what is going on with the athletes in Athens?
dean
April 11th, 2012
3:57 pm
Superbowl Sunday! Out of the rack at 0600. Flip on the Alphabet for the all day gluttony that is endless pregame prognostication. Then: ***BREAKING NEWS: Eugene Robinson arrested for solicitation.***
“We are doomed. It’s over.” We were and it was.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
3:58 pm
No – We still lead the league in stupidity. This is the ATL and the don’t ya know!
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
4:00 pm
Petrino went a riding up to the lake, u-huh, u-huh,
Petrino went a riding up to the lake, u-huh.
Petrino went a riding up to the lake,
A spill on his Harley, he did take.
U-huh, u-huh, u-huh.
Petrino to the cops he did say, u-huh, u-huh,
Petrino to the cops he did say, u-huh.
Petrino to the cops he did say,
Please don’t give my secret away.
U-huh, u-huh, u-huh.
ramblingbuzz
April 11th, 2012
4:01 pm
to the tune of Froggy went a courtin. Or Bobby went a slidin.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:04 pm
Try this on for stupid. Dumbmass Falcons may be on hardknocks. What a joke. And you’re telling me the ATL isn’t the dumbest sports town in history. LMFAO!
Dan
April 11th, 2012
4:05 pm
Hmmm a baseball manager is suspended for stating an opinion, albeit an ignorant one. Now I get it, more of a marketing move in a market with a large cuban population. I have yet to see an article that doesn’t agree Ozzies statements were ignorant and insulting to many. Sooo why is there not a similar outcry when a former president of the US and members of the congressional black caucaus visit cuba and extol how beneficial Castro is to his people. Just saying
fes
April 11th, 2012
4:08 pm
can someone hurry up and get saban a motorcycle?
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:11 pm
Dan – don’t hold your breath. Liberals just love Castro and you cannot call them out on it. You see liberals like bradley and schultz are all knowing, you’re just to stupid to know it yet.
You have now been marked for possible relocation to the nearest FEMA camp. See ya there!
And then their's
April 11th, 2012
4:11 pm
Add Coach George O’ Leary to the resume.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:11 pm
Saban’s not that stupid. Pissino, ehhh, he always was a ignoranus!
LawDawg
April 11th, 2012
4:16 pm
With the whole Castro thing, why does the sports media keep leaving out the part where Guillen says the reason he respects him is that he managed to survive death despite the CIA and other gunning for him for 60 years?
maharajiean shorts
April 11th, 2012
4:20 pm
GT still believes they can win in modern CFB with a high school offense and that their coach is a class act.
STUPIDITY AWARD=GT!!!
And don’t worry, it’s correct, their academics can’t lie. They are really smart!!!
A1A
April 11th, 2012
4:20 pm
Unfortunately we have Mark Richt and his very unholy gang of low class illiterates that will always be a huge embarrassment to this state.
nhlfan79
April 11th, 2012
4:22 pm
Atlanta Spirit is still in business after selling off a major league franchise to a Canadian outpost, failed twice to consummate a sale of the Hawks and arena, and won’t even bother to fix inoperable scoreboards. There’s still PLENTY of stupid in this town, believe you me.
Elise
April 11th, 2012
4:24 pm
Georgia Tech has the nation’s highest average SAT score for football players, and also the highest average high school GPA.
UGA, on the other hand, had one of the very lowest SAT averages, as well as a very low GPA average. As a result, three-fourths of UGA players are “special admits,” when means that they can not meet the minimum educational and intelligence requirements for admission to UGA, even as low as that is.
Yes, it would be great if Tech was more competitive with UGA, but Tech fans are proud of our heritage of having intelligent, responsible athletes who go on to rewarding careers and contribute to society.
Contrast this with the very unintelligent t-h-u-g-s that UGA recruits. The 50 arrests over the last four years is proof enough, not to mention winning the Fulmer Cup. Most of these goons are tossed out after their eligibility is over, and many end up on welfare.
UGA is clearly just a football f-a-c-t-o-r-y dedicated to winning at all costs, and most UGA fans are okay with this, with no concern about the embarrassment this brings to the State of Georgia.
Mark Richt is the architect of this situation. As long as he is paid a huge salary, he will continue to recruit the illiterate brain-dead t-h-u-g-s who he thinks will win. Unfortunately for UGA fans, he’s not remotely in the same league with the top coaches in the SEC.
So the bottom line is that Georgia Tech – win or lose – does so with honor and integrity, while the lowlife punks, woman beaters, drug users, and drunks in Athens continue to embarrass us all.
NHL Playoffs Anyone?
April 11th, 2012
4:25 pm
Mark, Lest we forget our humble city’s ability to lose an NHL franchise, not once, but twice. Go Jets (the Winnipeg variety).
TDone
April 11th, 2012
4:25 pm
Tech should not be taken to task for the 2009 ACC Championsip matter. Tech won the game on the field of play. The NCAA sends an investigator from a rival conference school to investigate $312 of merchandies, which it has never proved the Tech football player received. The investigator tells the Tech AD not to tell the head coach prior to its big game with its chief rival. We can be on the list for O’Leary, but not the 2009 ACC Championship.
Spudd Webb
April 11th, 2012
4:31 pm
Don’t know how we can have a discussion of all-time great Atlanta sports gaffes without discussing Randy Wittman and Jon Koncak, AKA the Vanilla Gorilla and the White Tornado.
DawginLex
April 11th, 2012
4:32 pm
Gosh A1A, you are so creative.
We have NEVER heard that before coming from one of you TROLLGOONS
Spudd Webb
April 11th, 2012
4:34 pm
Oh by the way…we should have went for Ned Yost, not Fredi Gonzalez…
DawginLex
April 11th, 2012
4:34 pm
Agreed Spudd
The Detroit Pistons absolutely played the Hawks like a fiddle by waving some extra money toward Koncak. Instead of letting him go and then getting a real player, the Hawks were worried he would make them better.
Still confused about that logic.
Buckeye
April 11th, 2012
4:40 pm
Say what you will about Clarettt and Schlichter, but Woody is on the Mt. Rushmore of college football. How many US Presidents spoke at your dead coach’ds funerals?
Buckeye
April 11th, 2012
4:41 pm
Laced brownies and lifting hash browns – now that’s stupid!
pete babcock
April 11th, 2012
4:42 pm
Dont forget we lost the Thrashers, not that anyone seems to care
Ardante
April 11th, 2012
4:45 pm
No so fast, didn’t we just lose our hockey team no so long ago.
Go Bucks!!
April 11th, 2012
4:46 pm
Herschel Talker – Shut your pie hole!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:47 pm
Red panty stupid?
EA
April 11th, 2012
4:47 pm
Stanley Cup Playoffs about to begin. Oh yeah, we lost our lousy team due to inept ownership. Let us not forget the Atlanta Spirit Group. Then again, maybe we should.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:50 pm
Bradley – Consensus is there is still plenty of stupid in the glorious ATL to go around and keep it in the lead for most stupid!
Horsetoothedjackass
April 11th, 2012
4:51 pm
And our former NHL team is still playing like they did here and once again will be hitting the links in April instead of the rink….. I guess all those folks in Winnipeg thought they’d win the Cup in their first year.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:53 pm
Stupid – Two sports talk radio stations that 99% of the state can’t hear after 5:30 at night in the winter or 7:30 at night in summer. Now thats stupid.
Stupid – listening to yankees talk about southern football – Now thats stupid!
Stupid – ATL sports talk radio, only place you can’t get NFL playoff games broadcast at night so you can actually hear the game if you happen to be at work. – Stupid!
Stupid – A one newspaper town with bradley and girly man schultz as writers – Stupid!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:53 pm
banned me:?
Regna
April 11th, 2012
4:54 pm
You forgot about Tech’s O’leary being fired for falsying his resume’
bulldawgbob
April 11th, 2012
4:55 pm
Bobby Petrino = the new “Pink Slime.”
merculf
April 11th, 2012
4:55 pm
What about Atlanta losing 2 different NHL teams?
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:56 pm
Stupid – A one newspaper town that employs girlyman schultz
Najeh Davenpoop
April 11th, 2012
4:56 pm
The Hawks are pretty good. Best team in Atlanta.
GABravesFan
April 11th, 2012
4:56 pm
Great article, Mr. Bradley! Thoroughly enjoyed it!!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:57 pm
Stupid – Two sports talk radio stations that can’t be heard by 99% of the state after 5:30 in the winter and 7:00 in the summer – only in the ATL – What a joke
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
4:59 pm
Stupid – listening to yankee carpet bagger talk sports idiots telling us Augusta National should accept women as members.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:01 pm
Stupid – Listening to an idiot and his condescending rhetoric, the self professed expert on all things sports, John Kincaid. Stupid Yankee blue belly!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:01 pm
Stupid – Listening to an idiot who doesn’t ever shut up, Chris Dimino
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE
April 11th, 2012
5:03 pm
@ Buckeye, Yes Thank God you are a Buckeye- Aren’t those the same Buckeyes that claimed to be Lilly white and are on probation fro athletes selling the uniform jerseys the athletic department purchased? Isn’t a buckeye a nut? nuff said!
Lily white my butt, WAR DAMN EAGLE!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:04 pm
Stupid – Bradley actually making predictions…..
Yes – Plenty of stupid here in the glorious mecca, the ATL!
Stupid!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:05 pm
Stupid – War Eagle thinking they are without reproach – Stupid!
Stiffneck
April 11th, 2012
5:08 pm
My all time favorite – Pascual Perez (nicknamed “I-285″)
Incredibly slender at 6 ft 2 in, 162 lb., he was probably better known for his on-field and off-field antics than his pitching talent. He was arrested for cocaine possession in his native Dominican Republic between the 1983 and 1984 seasons and did not rejoin the Braves until May 1984. Also a showboater, he often drew the ire of many of his opponents. He would use an imaginary finger gun to shoot opponents and would pound the baseball into the dirt on the mound. While it is customary for pitchers to walk back to the bench after completing an inning, he would sprint, with gold chains and Jheri-curls flapping in motion. He earned his nickname after missing a start on August 19, 1982 while circling Atlanta’s Interstate 285 looking for Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
Braves Fan
April 11th, 2012
5:11 pm
What sucks even more is that our media guys like Mark Bradley love trashing our sports. Hope you get fired soon. I don’t think you’ve never said one good thing about Atlanta. Please get fired!
Regna
April 11th, 2012
5:12 pm
You forgot about Tech’s O’Leary falsifying his resume’
Mark
April 11th, 2012
5:13 pm
Nice article.
Atl Guy #28
April 11th, 2012
5:14 pm
Please…..refer to him as “Bobby Quit-trino”. He apparently quit on his wife, family AND his team this time. What a DB!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:18 pm
Stupid – Anyone who thinks the CEO will actually win a NC while at UGA.
No Bradley – There is more stupid in this town than you care to admit!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:19 pm
Stupid – Anyone who actually believes the CEO and his team of misfits will ever beat a top 5 team in their lifetimes.
Stuuuuppppiiiiddddd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:20 pm
Stupid – Any GT fan who actually thinks their high school team is relevant anywhere outside of the cesspool that is north avenue.
Stupid!!!!!!!!!
Paddy
April 11th, 2012
5:26 pm
Hiring Freddi was not bad. We could have re-hired Eddie Haas. Someone pls explain how Eddie Haas was a better mgr than the one he replaced, Joe Torre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gtfanfrom1951
April 11th, 2012
5:28 pm
Thanks for leaving Tech out of it!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:31 pm
Stupid – Thinking that signing juan francisco, livan hernandez and chad durbin is a good move. that means you you boneheaded ignoanus Wren.
Stupid!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:33 pm
Stupid – Thinking a washed up, oft injured thirdbasemen, who will probably be on the DL for more games than he plays in, will lead your team to a World Series ring.
Stupid!
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:38 pm
Stupid – Giving Joe Johnson a contract worthy of Magic or Kareem or any truly great NBA player.
Stupid
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:38 pm
Yep – its pretty stupid around here!
BOO FREDI WHEN INTRODUCED
April 11th, 2012
5:42 pm
I hope the crowd at Turner Stadium thouroughly and loudly BOO’s Fredi when he is introduced as manager! He is by all accounts a TOTAL JOKE AS A MANAGER!
invalidname
April 11th, 2012
5:44 pm
You forgot “Lost our NHL team… again.”
Beast from the East
April 11th, 2012
5:45 pm
Typical second-class thinking.
“I may be fat but at least I’m not as fat as that guy.”
There’s always a bigger idiot to point out, but you shouldn’t feel any better about yourself because of it.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:47 pm
Stupid – Anyone who shows up at Turner Field for opening day. Kids and parents excluded as opening day is always special for parents and their kids to experience.
The rest of you dolts. Stupid
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
5:49 pm
Stupid – Losing two NHL teams, Two soccer teams and one Independent Baseball team that actually provided excitement year in and year out…..
Mike
April 11th, 2012
5:49 pm
Yes and we have the worst sports journalist in the country as well.
girls of the SEC
April 11th, 2012
5:52 pm
What about the stolen Hashbrowns
smothered and covered in
the UGA Soccer girl’s underpants ?
Kolby
April 11th, 2012
6:01 pm
Sell the Falcons; we don’t need OR want a new football stadium.
Keep the Braves but only allow players under the age of 30 so we get some new blood and not old men with bad habits.
Sell the Hawks..they just plain stink from every aspect.
How about setting up a Grand Prix race through downtown like they do in other cities once a year?
Ya gotta admit, it’d be different!
realitycheck
April 11th, 2012
6:01 pm
All that’s left for an Atlanta sports fan to do is to enjoy other’s misfortunes because the same old beat goes on and on……….Chance of UGA or Tech winning the BCS Championship-ZERO………Chance of Braves winning WS-ZERO……..Chance of Hawks winning NBA Championship-ZERO……..Chance of Falcons winning SB-ZERO…….Same old beat never stops and probably never will.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
6:01 pm
Stupid – Red Panties…… UGA AD Damon Evans!
Stupid – Mike Adams
Stupid – McGarity
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!
Horsetoothedjackass
April 11th, 2012
6:11 pm
Stupid – Snake doc’s posts.
MyPatootie
April 11th, 2012
6:26 pm
I hope Snake doc lives next door to a real DOCTOR, he’s gonna need one soon sounds like.
Snake doc
April 11th, 2012
6:31 pm
Patootie – And why would that be? It sure won’t be because of anything you do or plan on doing or hope is done.
Nativebird
April 11th, 2012
6:32 pm
Yet, we still can’t win championships in a consistent manner. I’d take bobby petrino RIGHT NOW over your beloved bro-love Paul Johnson any day and twice on Sunday. , the ego that can’t deliver. Can’t recruit, can’t run a pro system, can’t win. And besides, there’d definitely be no female “distractions” at Tech to derail Coach Petrino as he took the Jackets to consistenT top 10 rankings and BcS bowls.
Joe Tess Fish House
April 11th, 2012
6:37 pm
I dunno I still thing the Flacons and Braves with all the dumm things they do make Atlatna the stupidest ever.
Karma Karma
April 11th, 2012
6:45 pm
They should have left a note on Petrino’s door telling him he was fired. That’s all the scumbag deserves.
Paul in NH
April 11th, 2012
6:46 pm
Got to feel for the hockey fans in Atlanta. Boston currently holds 2 hockey championships – the Stanley Cup for the Bruins and the NCAA for BC
Hillbilly D
April 11th, 2012
6:48 pm
Sooo why is there not a similar outcry when a former president of the US and members of the congressional black caucaus visit cuba and extol how beneficial Castro is to his people.
‘Cause nobody’s ticket sales are impacted by that. Money talks.
GT fan
April 11th, 2012
6:54 pm
Furman Bisher died and took with him the only good thing about sports in this city! We are a doomed and sorry bunch. Think that old woman who put the hex on the stadium must have put a hex on all the teams in Atlanta!
LCDawg
April 11th, 2012
6:55 pm
Karma’s a real beetch
turdburglar
April 11th, 2012
6:59 pm
Perez of the Braves wasn’t nicknamed I-285, he was called Perimiter Perez.
Ted
April 11th, 2012
7:03 pm
Atlanta is a total loser sports city. No one cares about the local sports teams who choke year after year and the Braves got exactly what they deserved last September to the amusement of many. The Saints got what they deserved but if the only way that you can beat the Saints is by their coach being suspended, that’s a sad commentary in itself…
Paddy
April 11th, 2012
7:03 pm
Joe Tess…..go away you are not welcome here, remember?
Waddell Waddle
April 11th, 2012
7:04 pm
What, am I forgotten already?
Joe Tess Fish House
April 11th, 2012
7:14 pm
I still thing Atlanta sports is an embrassment.
Skeezix
April 11th, 2012
7:19 pm
Kudos to Arkansas for doing the right thing and firing Petrino. I still can’ t believe what Ozzie said about Castro. What happened in New Orleans was immoral and criminal–they got off light.
I see trouble is brewing at Baylor.
Bigdawg
April 11th, 2012
7:23 pm
Buckeyes: Jack Nicklaus, Jesse Owens, John Havlicek, Tom Weiskopf, Frank Howard, Archie Griffin!
Bigdawg
April 11th, 2012
7:24 pm
I don’t see the big problem with Ozzie expressing his personal opinion? I mean, millions of Americans love GWB and he’s killed nearly as many innocents as Castro!
Tim
April 11th, 2012
7:24 pm
Oh how sweet!! what goes around comes around!!
Ken
April 11th, 2012
8:05 pm
I can’t help it, I gotta say it: Petrino has his neck in a brace and his @$$ in a sling!
Vulture
April 11th, 2012
8:06 pm
“Do I have this right? Georgia Tech folks are upset about being left out of a column about … stupidity?”
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. I would have never thought that it be so interesting to add up all the miserable things that have happened to the local teams.
GwinnettDad
April 11th, 2012
8:08 pm
Baloney to that Forbes study about the most miserable sports city. Cleveland, Ohio wins it hands down. The only reason Forbes rated Atlanta worse is probably because nobody from Forbes ever bothered to go there (I spent a week there once Sunday etc.). Cleveland has had Lebron James thumb his nose at his hometown (Akron), lost two Cy Young pitchers immediately after their achievements, but that’s only the short list. Browns haven’t won since 1964, and that was before the Super Bowl. Indians not since the year I was born, 1948. Willie Mays catch? Against Cleveland. Cavaliers don’t count, really, but Lebron did become Lebong with the heat on. Just a very short list. The Drive? That’s against Cleveland (Elway became a legend playing against the Browns). The fumble of Ernest Byner on the 2 yard line in the NFL Championship game to choke tieing the game? Atlanta doesn’t have one tenth of the stories of agony or stupidity that Clevleand has had.
Stiffneck
April 11th, 2012
8:12 pm
turdburglar – He wore I-285 on the back of his warmup jacket and smiled indulgently when he was called I-285 Perez, Perimeter Perez or Wrong-Way Pascual. Depends on who you ask. He circled Atlanta three times on I-285, ran out of gas, and arrived 10 minutes after gametime. The incident earned Perez the nickname “I-285.” Still funny stuff.
pat
April 11th, 2012
8:29 pm
I love what Petrino did to himself…That’s karma baby! It took 5 years, but it cost him his job and likely his family. I wish I could meet him so I could laugh in his arrogant, sniveling face…. I am so happy I could cry…. I wish more bad stuff would happen to him.
Karma
April 11th, 2012
8:33 pm
Don’t leave out andre rison shooting holes in Kroger ceiling, dan Heatley killing Dan Snyder and virtually everything ASG ever did. In a few years we may add ted turner for signing bad tv contract for braves and then losing braves hawks and thrashers through time warner merger leading to curse of ASG and Liberty.
pat
April 11th, 2012
8:36 pm
Of course, if you hire a guy who runs lies and runs out on another team to come to you, you should not be the least bit surprised he lies, cheats and steals. It’s not like you didn’t know the jerk had character issues.
loserville
April 11th, 2012
9:06 pm
The ATL — loserville–they choke every year in every sport! I miss NY–city of champions! I may move back to the Bronx next year if the economy improves.
OldTimer
April 11th, 2012
9:09 pm
The hiring of Gonzalez a great move? Really? You’re officially nominated for brown-noser of the year Bradley.
Karma
April 11th, 2012
9:13 pm
Move back to Bronx. Yankees haven’t won in few years despite payroll. Been a while for rangers and Knicks. Guess you include nj teams. Keep heading north to Boston for real city with recent rings
Definition of loser
April 11th, 2012
10:48 pm
Someone who needs the economy to improve to be able to move back nawth
Mary Reed
April 11th, 2012
11:03 pm
You forgot both Bobby Cremins and George O’Leary bolting Tech for Notre Dame? I still cringe when I think of what happened to O’Leary!
Strange Murphy
April 11th, 2012
11:21 pm
Atlanta still has Tech so it’s still Losersville.
cpsman_atlanta
April 11th, 2012
11:40 pm
Atlanta Spirit still owns Philips Arena and the Hawks. We still lead all leagues in stupidity because of this. BOYCOTT ATLANTA SPIRIT GROUP!!!! LONG LIVE THE THRASHERS!!!
cpsman_atlanta
April 11th, 2012
11:43 pm
Burn in hell, Atlanta Spirit Group!!!
Doodlebug
April 12th, 2012
12:19 am
I miss Stan Kasten.
longsufferingatlantasportsfan
April 12th, 2012
1:30 am
stiffneck – you can’t be be forgetting about the Braves signing Al ” the Mad Hungarian ” Hrabosky? Now *that* was a freakshow!
jay
April 12th, 2012
4:02 am
How about WCW, the Atlanta-based wrestling promotion, whoase roots go back as far as 80 years, getting purchased by it’s competitor, WWF/E, only to be put out of business.
Mountain Dawg
April 12th, 2012
5:36 am
Reggie Ball is the dumbest player ever in Atlanta.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
April 12th, 2012
6:08 am
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The Ghost of Wally Butts
April 12th, 2012
6:11 am
It’s a formula for trouble that’s as old as the scriptures….
Older Man + Money + Power + Opportunity + Younger Woman = Trouble
From King David/Bathsheba to Clinton/Lewinsky to Damon/Red Panties to Tiger/Pancake House to Bobby Pig-Sooey/Blondie….it’s the same ol’ story, just the latest verse.
mehlman rings twice
April 12th, 2012
6:22 am
What about Dany Heatly?
ramblingbuzz
April 12th, 2012
7:34 am
Snake Doc sounds bitter about everything. ATL may not be a great sports town, but it beats the hello out of every northeastern and midwestern city in everything else.
ramblingbuzz
April 12th, 2012
7:43 am
“NCAA puts Baylor basketball on 3 years’ probation”….Wow, it’s a good thing Baylor is not GT or else in addition to being on probation Baylor would have been forced to give back their Womens’ Natl BB Championship.
badsports
April 12th, 2012
8:00 am
which city’s sports are more miserable: atlanta or cleveland? Both are at the bottom–bad teams or chokes every year.
How bout them jackets?
April 12th, 2012
8:06 am
So I guess GT’s NCAA sanctions and stripped ACC football title don’t count as embarrasing to the state of Georgia sports?
MoneyforSex
April 12th, 2012
8:07 am
bobby gave up $18 million in buyout money for this chick???? WOW!!! Whatever she’s doing, must be very good!!!
Skipper
April 12th, 2012
8:27 am
Mr. Bradley very conveniently ignores the fact that in the stupid department it was the Falcons who came calling on Petrino even after that Louisville – Auburn episode. Petrino got what he deserved. So did the Falcons.
Slick Willie aka Bobby
April 12th, 2012
9:14 am
I did not have sex with that woman!!!
Forrest Gump
April 12th, 2012
9:16 am
Mama says” Stupid is as Stupid does”!
Ted
April 12th, 2012
9:51 am
The Falcons knew what Petrino was about before they hired him. He had character issues then. The Falcons got exactly what they deserved.
nate from detroit
April 12th, 2012
10:10 am
Am I the only one who finds it sad that a baptist affiliated school (Baylor U) gets on probation for cheating and not following the rules? Buckeye fans need to beware of Urbie and his tactics. They could best be summed up by the former player quoted in the Hayes article that Meyer is a great coach and an bad person. The only problem with this is that as long as he wins, The Ohio State University and their fans won’t care what a weasel he is.
j
April 12th, 2012
10:11 am
so let me get this straight…the teams here cant win a damn thing so they relish in others downfalls…sure makes sense to me…what a crappy sports own with a bunch of snobby people running around…go away falcons, hawks and braves…about the only thing this city is good for is uga and even that they screw up “we want richt fired” idiots
Pamela
April 12th, 2012
10:53 am
Wow..how SAD is this article? Bounty gate may have been in New Orleans, but it goes on EVERYWHERE!!! Have you FAILCANT’S fans noticed that Matt Ryan WAS NOT on thier list? Because our team is SORRY! YOU ALL KNOW IT! And for the sorry editor of this story to say that the NFC South team (New Orleans Saints) finally won the superbowl! Well…WHY HAVEN’T THE FAILCONS EVER WON? WHY? BECAUSE YOUR TEAM IS SORRY AND SAD!!! YOU ALL WILL NEVER WIN THE SUPERBOWL…YOU ARE THE WORST TEAM IN THE NFL! SO SORRY THAT YOUR TEAM SHOULD BE SOLD TO A REAL CITY WHERE THEIR FANS ENJOY SPORTS…THEY NEED TO START BY GETTING AN ENTIRE COACHING STAFF AND PLAYERS! ALL OF YOUR PLAYERS SUCK! TURNER IS FAT, SLOW AND HORRIBLE! WHY IS HE STILL ON THE TEAM??? MATT RYAN IS A SISSY PLAYER! WHY IS HE STILL ON THE TEAM???
Pamela
April 12th, 2012
10:54 am
Because the Failcant’s is SORRY! Not our team…that is why the Matt Ryen was NOT on their list!
Dr. Phil
April 12th, 2012
10:59 am
Petrino riding around on Sunday afternoon attached to a 25-year-old blonde and sexting with a university cellphone has to be the most arrogant and stupid performance of any recent public figures caught with their panties down, including the infmous red ones.
fletch
April 12th, 2012
11:12 am
“Because the Failcant’s is SORRY! Not our team…that is why the Matt Ryen was NOT on their list!”
Pamela sounds like a really intelligent Saints fan…probably one of the many morons who ignored the warning to get out of that filthy city prior to Katrina and then blamed Bush when her trailer was floating down the street.
LeTwan Anthony
April 12th, 2012
11:13 am
LeTwan would tell you that while you claim Atlanta no longer leads any league in stupidity . . . it was not long ago that a camera pointed in the Braves dugout would reveal a manager with his finger up his nose. Now, it reveals Fredi doing whatever it is Fredi does. We are not far removed.
Promethius
April 12th, 2012
12:21 pm
I’m moving to Atlanta asap. Hope I don’t get murdered on streets the first day.
Say What??
April 12th, 2012
12:30 pm
It always amazes me how much effort people use to simply insult someone else. I guess that makes them feel better about themselves? I don’t know… I am not a shrink, but seriously, those people must lead really sad lives…
So let me ask this… and I am being serious now… why do you do it? Why do you take time out of your life to post insulting and demeaning things? What does that do for you? I guess I understand UGA fans retaliating to a Tech fan who has logged into a UGA blog and insulted their rival or vice versa… But why would a person who seems to dislike a team so much take the time to do this?
alpharetta alice
April 12th, 2012
1:17 pm
no new downtown stadium…build it in northern suburbs around acworth or canton, or keep the garbage youhave…philips should have been built in the north also…nobody wants to go downtown and deal with the bs surrounding downtown…
microphone assassin
April 12th, 2012
1:18 pm
check check
microphone assassin
April 12th, 2012
1:19 pm
no new downtown stadium…canton, acworth…any northern suburb, yes…downtown, NO…
Bill in NC
April 12th, 2012
1:20 pm
nice article, Mark; especially like what you captured in the first paragraph about no free agency splashes and GA’s spat of arrests. Guess we’ll trust the Wrens, Dimitroffs and CMRicht a while longer. Maybe CMR should wratchet up the discipline, but GA definitely knows they’ve got quite an incredible leader of young guys in Coach Richt. Don’t think Shakespeare could have written the Petrino fall. What tangled webs we weave
evil empire
April 12th, 2012
1:22 pm
bill in nc…you were kidding about the cmr/incredible leader thing, right?
Ozzie G. the Marxist
April 12th, 2012
1:35 pm
I love communist tyrants like Fidel. I really like how he and his buddy/comrade Kruschev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war when Kennedy was President.
Move the Marlins to the Peoples Republic of Cuba now!
Taxi Smith
April 12th, 2012
1:47 pm
I’d like to remind Buckeye about Hayes and Tressel. But his point is well taken.
J-Dawg
April 12th, 2012
2:10 pm
GT-Falcon………Ya’ll are apart of Georgia……..kind of like bat boys being a part of the Braves
Moneyball
April 12th, 2012
2:13 pm
Pamela, why all the bitterness? Sounds like no one is inviting you for a motorcycle ride.
dougbq
April 12th, 2012
3:19 pm
Bobby Petrino is a sports villian for much greater reasons than Steve Spurrier and Jim Leyritz . Atlanta people may not like them, but at least they were just playing the game. Petrino was/is an idiot. Completely different and much worse. Idiot may not be a strong enough word.
sting_em
April 12th, 2012
3:26 pm
Hate it for his family, but Petrino got what he deserved. I hope his wife takes everything else as she walks out the door.
Kyle
April 12th, 2012
3:29 pm
The Georgia Bulldogs lost the SEC championship game by 32 points,
Tell me Mark….perhaps you can comment on the 10 teams THAT DIDNT MAKE IT TO THE SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME……and funny, you talk about the Braves, Falcons and UGA but fail to mention the trade school on North Ave who has a long and storied history of gaffs…..GEEZ
dean
April 12th, 2012
5:05 pm
My last word on this gift from the heavens: There is a reason Harleys are called Milwaukee Vibrators.
Smitty
April 12th, 2012
7:42 pm
Say What….very true comment
Smitty
April 12th, 2012
7:44 pm
J-Dawg…now that’s funny
Disgusted
April 12th, 2012
7:58 pm
If the Braves had not folded in September there would not be as much bashing of Fredi Gonzalez who I still think was a good move.
I was happy with him through August of last yr.
I do think Fredi will have a tougher time around this time because the NL East is better.
Liberty Cheapedia is the problem. TW helped set up the problem with that lousy TV deal. But Wren has fared as well as almost any GM could under the circumstances.
Outside of Kawakami, cannot really bash any of the Wren moves at the time they were made.
Yall telling me that U did not think the Mc Louth move was great at the time it was made? Did not work but hindsight is 20/20.
Disgusted
April 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
Petrino is a fool but I still say he did Blank, the Falcons and their fans a big favor walking away.
Hey, in spite of the playoff losses, we have never had it so good as we have it under Mike Smith.
We are not great but pretty good. We never had even a mini run before, just a few spotted yrs of success that never were sustained.
Disgusted
April 12th, 2012
8:01 pm
Mike Bradley forgot about losing the Thrashers in addition to the supid stuff that has gone around.
Did not have to happen.
Mark Bradley
April 12th, 2012
8:39 pm
“We’re the city that saw its NFL team’s only Super Bowl appearance besmirched by the arrest of Eugene Robinson for solicitation only hours after he accepted the league’s good citizenship award. We’re the city that saw its NBA franchise snarled in court for five years because one owner balked at the trade for Joe Johnson. We’re the city that recoiled when its baseball team’s closer gave an interview to another Time-Life publication — in John Rocker’s case, it was Sports Illustrated — that offended nearly every ethnicity. We’re the city that lost its NHL franchise — twice!”
Is that not a nod to losing the Thrashers?
Tide Rising
April 12th, 2012
9:05 pm
Probably still the nation’s worst sports city. The pro teams for the most part have traditionally sucked except for the Braves in the 90s and early 2000s. And in college the 2 college football teams have to look 1 state over to see where the last 3 national titles have resided. Kinda of embarrassing if you’re a dawg or jacket fan and you have to look at the dominance of the state of Alabama over the state of Georgia in college sports- particularly football.
Promethius
April 12th, 2012
9:38 pm
Jealous of CMR or not, I don’t think you can in good conscience attack his character. But I can say this about Coach Johnson as well. State of Ga. has two fine men football coaches (same for Coach Curry). I have my doubts about coaches in Fl. and Alabama. Tenn coaches and La. coaches are fine with me as well.
is there any truth to the rumor that your colleque
April 12th, 2012
10:46 pm
jeff schultz was engaged in a 3 way with petrino and is gf? jeff must love giving reach arounds. lmao.
j
April 12th, 2012
10:48 pm
Atlanta Hawks, they at least did something … same for the Atlanta Dream … football and baseball isn’t everything numbnuts
Disgusted
April 12th, 2012
10:49 pm
Sorry, I missed that Mark Must have sped read too fast. .
Guess I am still DISGUSTED that we lost what was my favorite live sporting event in the city, but the Phillips Arena is still DEAD to me as long as the Octocluster is around.
And I respect what the players and coaches of the Hawks have done this yr but do not want to support them. Used to go to a couple games a yr but not now, if and when the Spirit go, will be back.
j
April 12th, 2012
10:50 pm
Ga Southern football also did well and racked up the most points against Alabama.
Disgusted
April 12th, 2012
10:53 pm
I would take the charachter of Coaches Richt and Johnson over just about anything that most schools have to offer.
The National Championship would be nice but in College sports its not everything.
Richt is underappreciated, he cannot be there all the time to make sure his guys do the right thing.
Jim R
April 12th, 2012
11:00 pm
At this hour, George OLeary is still trying to type his resume properly.
gt forever
April 13th, 2012
7:51 am
Petrino’s accident on April fools day bettered my receipt of orders for VietNam on April Fools day 1970. The goats of the UGA campus probably started on the job on April Fools day as well. Petrino and his girlfriend, UGA and goats on campus, the ex-UGA AD and red panties, you just cannot make this stuff up. Makes me laugh in between working math problems.
pace53
April 13th, 2012
8:31 am
Mr. Blank is nobody to turn your back on….be careful what you wish for ..and Petrino got it back-
IN SPADES..
Don
April 13th, 2012
9:29 am
In your listing of reasons why the Braves no longer lead any league in STUPIDITY, you left off the MOST IMPORTANT, SIGNIFICANT REASON. —-
THE BRAVES NO LONGER HAVE BOBBY COX AS MANAGER – no matter how bad that Fredi may be – he doesn’t come close to the Boob.
Billy
April 13th, 2012
9:50 am
“This GM always in a hurry,” Mark……I love it!
Braves would have been better off with D Moore than F Wren. JS and all front office needs to go.
Milburn Drysdale
April 13th, 2012
10:07 am
Tise Rising…..”worst sports city”? Well, at least we have a sports city. A lot more than we can say about the dump of the South of Alabammer.
Ranger
April 13th, 2012
9:09 pm
Do you think Petrino might have had difficulty driving that motorcycle because he was also undergarments for his female companion?
Beefstu
April 15th, 2012
3:37 am
Who cares about hockey?
Dawg1
April 16th, 2012
9:45 am
Buckeye – really? The land of cheating football players, with your last National Championship tainted by a thug. With a coach who lied to the University and the NCAA? In a conference that also gave the NCAA it’s biggest scandel of all time – hiding a Coach who sexually abused boys for decades…
On the professional side – that means your likely a Brown/Bengal fan, Cavs fan, Reds/Indians fan – if it’s the Reds, then you got a little.
Your right… Thank goodness your a Buckeye.