While they existed, the St. Louis Rams had an interesting history with both positive and negative elements. The positive? Well, the 1999-2000 season remains one of the most surreal experiences of my life, speaking as someone who grew up with the St. Louis Football Cardinals and who figured out fairly quickly that a Super Bowl appearance, never mind a win, for a St. Louis-based team was not even remotely possible.
There was Kurt Warner. Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Marshall Faulk. The Greatest Show On Turf. London Fletcher. Warner standing in and delivering that Super Bowl-winning TD pass to Bruce even though he knew that Jevon Kearse was about to kill him. The Tackle by Mike Jones.
But what about the negative? Well, there was us introducing this whack job into the NFL.
Raiders guard Richie Incognito has been suspended for the first two games of this season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.
The Raiders signed Incognito, who last played in 2017, to a one-year deal in May. At the time, general manager Mike Mayock acknowledged the possibility of a suspension for Incognito, 36, who has had multiple legal issues since last playing in the NFL.
Incognito pleaded guilty in March to a charge of disorderly conduct in the funeral home incident, according to online court records, while charges of threatening injury and damaging property were dismissed.
ESPN reported Incognito also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal damage and disorderly conduct stemming from a separate incident last August that involved an argument with his grandmother.
If I had a dollar for every Rams touchdown, long run or long pass completion that was called back because of one of Richie's stupid unnecessary roughness penalties, this publication would be called the Western Kansas Conservative Journal because I'd be publishing it from my estate somewhere around Hays, Ness City or Goodland.
Oh and Myrmidon? In case you're wondering, the Belichek stuff is dead here; nobody cares anymore. When your guys played the Rams in the last Super Bowl, everybody in the STL was rooting for you. Better Kraft/Belichek wins ten more in a row than Stan Kroenke wins one.
That's how dead that the NFL has killed this market. Bring on the XFL.
There was Kurt Warner. Isaac Bruce. Torry Holt. Marshall Faulk. The Greatest Show On Turf. London Fletcher. Warner standing in and delivering that Super Bowl-winning TD pass to Bruce even though he knew that Jevon Kearse was about to kill him. The Tackle by Mike Jones.
But what about the negative? Well, there was us introducing this whack job into the NFL.
Raiders guard Richie Incognito has been suspended for the first two games of this season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.
The Raiders signed Incognito, who last played in 2017, to a one-year deal in May. At the time, general manager Mike Mayock acknowledged the possibility of a suspension for Incognito, 36, who has had multiple legal issues since last playing in the NFL.
Incognito pleaded guilty in March to a charge of disorderly conduct in the funeral home incident, according to online court records, while charges of threatening injury and damaging property were dismissed.
ESPN reported Incognito also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal damage and disorderly conduct stemming from a separate incident last August that involved an argument with his grandmother.
If I had a dollar for every Rams touchdown, long run or long pass completion that was called back because of one of Richie's stupid unnecessary roughness penalties, this publication would be called the Western Kansas Conservative Journal because I'd be publishing it from my estate somewhere around Hays, Ness City or Goodland.
Oh and Myrmidon? In case you're wondering, the Belichek stuff is dead here; nobody cares anymore. When your guys played the Rams in the last Super Bowl, everybody in the STL was rooting for you. Better Kraft/Belichek wins ten more in a row than Stan Kroenke wins one.
That's how dead that the NFL has killed this market. Bring on the XFL.
3 comments:
Oh, Har-de-Har-Har!
Look, we had Aaron Hernandez, OK?
Criminal damage and disorderly conduct in a fight with his GRANDMOTHER? What a guy.
Okay, I'll give you that one. Richie was a lot of things, none of them good, but Richie never killed anyone.
As far as I know. ;-)
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