Texas Monthly on the death of sportswriting

Hey, find another name, pal.

 

Let's turn this around. I've been doing microfilm research and I've been less than impressed with the writing of the day as a whole. You can tell the Grantland Rice wannabes by just reading the lede. I have to wade through a bunch of overwritten dreck with big words that have no pertinence to the subject on a regular basis. Then I maybe get to the middle of the story to find what the score was.

You don't have to use 4,000 colors to paint a classic picture. Only Grantland Rice could pull that off.

 

In all seriousness, he reminds me of the long-graduated fraternity brothers who would come back and tell you how wacky they used to be in their day.

"You guys are nothing like us. We made the pledges drink the blood from each other's gushing carotid arteries! While Crazy Joe the Active blew his world-famous farts in their faces! And we laughed our asses off the whole time!"

 

Don't you dare apologize for that. That is the hard-core truth.

You nailed it better than anyone.

The man wants everyone worth a shit in this business to be a drunk (screw his disclaimer), and to essentially be a child.

Period.

 

I definitely thought that was a bizarre mark he made against today's sports writers. They're too ... healthy?

 

Some people older than Moddy smell.

That is all I have to add right now.

 

Please see above edit.

 

That's because all people older than Moddy are dead.

Hay yo!

 

Eh. It's just the title of one of eight lengthy blog posts Joe Poz has written in the last four days. Wasn't the headline on the original story a few years ago, doesn't really mean anything (once a week, there's a different blog post with the same title: Banny Log.) I wouldn't read that much into it.

 

Couple of things:
1) This thing is well written.
2) Personal attacks on the targets from Austin are needless. The issue is larger than the writing of two columnists.
3) Why did anybody outside of New England ever bother to cover Harvard-Yale football? Even SI.