does anyone outside of the members of this board even read any of the 670.com web articles/content?

does anyone outside of the members of this board even read any of the 670.com web articles/content?

I find Fahrenheit 451 to be one of the most important novels in the Western canon.

I find the fact that his bio says "Tim Baffoe attended the University of Iowa before graduating from Governor's State" to be particulraly pathetic.

In truth, I feel like Ten Foot Midget has a sense of humor about himself. I think he could fit in on this board and contribute something and think it's a shame he has only chosen to shamelessly pander for votes and run away.

In truth, I feel like Ten Foot Midget has a sense of humor about himself. I think he could fit in on this board and contribute something and think it's a shame he has only chosen to shamelessly pander for votes and run away.

He has no use for the people who post here. I dare say he has no use for the people who read his blog posts, save one (fingers crossed.)

In truth, I feel like Ten Foot Midget has a sense of humor about himself. I think he could fit in on this board and contribute something and think it's a shame he has only chosen to shamelessly pander for votes and run away.

I kind of get the same feeling. I think he would fit in well. We are chock full of modest intelligences who attended Big Ten schools that begin with I

In truth, I feel like Ten Foot Midget has a sense of humor about himself. I think he could fit in on this board and contribute something and think it's a shame he has only chosen to shamelessly pander for votes and run away.

But, if he did show back up, all you people who disparaged this Western Ave wordsmith would soon be kissing his ass like you do every other Score personality that posts here.

He always struck me as a dbag. I honestly have no idea what his role is at the station, but his asslicking combined with his Bernstein-esque disdain for "meatballs" always seemed bit too "thou doth protest too much" to me.

I don't know, but if you're going to stand in judgment of your "fellow fan" and their intelligence (or lack thereof) why would you be advertising the fact that you do a teenage kids' job at night to make some extra scratch?

While I love this feature, the "fan" letters can be of the most criminal of garbage.

Yeah, the fans of bad teams embody the classic "I hope it will turn out OK, but I know it won't" and can inspire truly memorable rants (that ZMF one is awesome - that is classic Sheild-era AV Club OWNAGE), but they have a distinct "my teams sucks! feel sorry for me! Please?!" you-owe-me-for-my-choices patheticness that would embarass a gutterpunk whining for change to buy PBR. Sad, but acceptable compared to the alternative.

The fans of the 'good' teams (the Superbowl Winners)?

The worst case of wish-everyone-one-was-as-good-a-fan-as-me-humblebrag-itis I've ever seen. It could be a fucking template: "Our overweight, lazy, smelly, unemployed, drunken fans (But not me! I assure you, I am none of those adjectives) don't know anything about football (But I do! Just ask me! Ooh, Ooh, my hand is raised, I can answer that! Acknowledge my football brain!). Every year when we make the playoffs (ahem *self high five*) and lose (even if your team hasn't been in years, you should feel sorry for us that we lost) the idiots (again, NOT me) call our terrible local sports radio (which, for hating it so much, I am surprisingly informed about) and want to get rid of [AWESOME PLAYER] (did I mention we have AWESOME PLAYER yet? No, OK. We have AWESOME PLAYER). Even though we've won several Superbowls in my liftime (seriously, we WON super bowls, like more than your team for sure) the ungrateful morons (once more - NOT me. I am not ungrateful that WE MAKE THE PLAYOFFS CONSTANTLY and HAVE WON SUPERBOWLS. Even if I am writing to slag off my team, city, and fellow fans)! And the people in our city? They do that one thing that I'm sure will make you say "You know, I hate that too! We should be friends!". Christ. Fuck. Ugh. These fans. They're terrible (but, remember NOT ME. I am the perfect fan).

Could be applied, with a few tweaks, to pretty much everything Baffoe has ever written.

Sherman’s intelligence frightens people. The one thing we’ve traditionally had over athletes is that, despite their talent and money and celebrity, we would always be allowed to feel smarter than them. They’re jocks, so they’re supposed to be dumb enough for us to still salvage some superiority over them and feel good about ourselves without completely devoting ourselves to a completely superior false idol.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/the-scary-smart-of-richard-sherman/

I kind of quit reading after this point but this passage, this line of thought is fascinating and really telling. I've never thought this way about athletes in general, certain athletes when given a reason but not just as a general mindset -