Oct 22nd 2008 7:05PM by Adam Gretz (author feed)
Filed under: Giants, Steelers, NFL Fans, NFL Media Watch
As I was doing my daily browsing of the Internet, searching for videos of cats playing ping-pong and water-skiing squirrels, I stumbled upon this article from Ian O’Connor over at titled, “In a do-over, Eli still gets draft nod over Big Ben.”
My first thought was, “oh crap, not this again.” Being the sane, rational person that I am, I decided to give Mr. O’Connor’s article a shot and see if he might be able to enlighten me, offering convincing evidence that Eli Manning is indeed better than Ben Roethlisberger, as he suggests.
He failed. Not only did he fail, he made me want to take my laptop and throw it against the wall, repeatedly, until Ian O’Connor’s article ceased to exist on my computer screen. I screamed various expletives as if he could hear me, stomping around the house screaming his name. O’Connor! O’Connor! O’Connor!
Now, let me be clear: I’m not going to sit here and blow a bunch of smoke up your butts and pretend to be some sort of unbiased, neutral third-party. Because I’m not. As you may already know, I am a Steelers fan, which makes me incredibly biased — and passionate — about this topic. What I am going to do, however, is attempt to offer objective facts, many of which O’Connor uses in his own article, to prove his is full of … well.Continue Reading
