So I wrote what I thought was a seemingly innocuous story that appeared Tuesday where Ohio State coach Jim Tressel defended Vernon Gholston against the charge that his former defensive end didn't play hard all the time.
A relatively inoffensive piece – I thought anyway – so there was some surprise when someone emailed me late Tuesday afternoon and said, "check out the comments after your Gholston story." When I looked, there were 133 of them, many from Dolphins fans irate at Tressel for, in their minds, taking a shot at Jake Long. I thought Tressel was more pumping up his guy than taking down someone else, but interpretation is always in the eyes of the reader. It certainly had a bunch of people "going Abramson," a new phrase Bob Glauber is trying hard to inject in the lexicon.
The phrase, for those who didn't get a chance to follow Newsday's live draft blog Saturday, is named for Adam Abramson of newsday.com, who year-round writes some great college football stuff. Other than that, I'm not sure what Abramson does but - to paraphrase the great Harry Doyle - I'm sure he does a heck of a job.
Comments (2)
Erik,
I think you've done a great job so far, and in fact, better than your predecessor. I wouldn't worry about the Dolphn fans. They're just hypersensitve because their team stunk so badly last year.
My only criticism is your almost daily referene to Bob Glauber. Please, enough already. It's embarassing and getting to be a joke on Jets boards. It might be one thing if he were all that and a bag of chips, but a number of us don't think he is, so it doesn't help your popularity or image any.
The Dolphins fans must be a little self conscious, reading Jets Blogs and all. My advice, me as offensive to Miami Dolphin fans as you can. I say this for reason: if you live in NY and root for Miami, you deserve to deal with us Jets fans (and writers alike) bashing your team. C'mon, you're in the lions den here people, or should I say, you're on the "runway"?
Dolphins fans need to calm themselves and realize that Jake Long is not a synonym for Jesus, Muhammad, Zeus, Vishnu, Peter Griffin, or anything else that along those lines. Its still a rebuilding year and if they envision Jason Taylor carrying the Lombardi trophy through downtown Miami next February, they've got another thing coming; perhaps another top 10 pick in the 2009 draft.