Madcap Minicamps

[Marshall 98]

Going online for the first time in weeks, I discovered a handy article that may address many of your offseason needs: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2489793-everything-is-awesome-a-readers-guide-to-every-minicamp-story-ever (actually, the title should read Mike Tanier Is Awesome).

 

Some snippets:

...If you have followed football long enough, you will notice that about 99 percent of minicamp stories fall into four major categories: Contract Stories, Injury Stories, Depth Chart Stories and Everything Is Awesome Stories. Each of those genres contains a handful of rules, conventions and subgenres, each with their own cliches and tropes.

 

That's the problem with contract dramas. For all their twists and turns, they end with an anticlimax. Nearly all contract squabbles end with the player walking into team headquarters within the first 48 hours of the start of training camp, new deal or not. That's because teams can fine players for missing training camp, whereas grumbling through agents and unofficial channels in early June is absolutely free. Players who threaten to retire never retire; 49ers players simply retire without threatening, which is something entirely different.

 

...There are still some poor fans, though, who read the home team's Everything Is Awesome stories and do not realize that 31 sets of identical stories are being written around the NFL. These fans often end up with a set of unrealistic expectations that they are all too eager to share on message boards and around water coolers. Our undrafted rookie receiver made a one-handed catch from our now-comfortable-in-the-system quarterback. It's Montana-to-Rice all over again! What other team can boast such a lethal combination? The unspoken answer to that question is "all of them."

 

Disclaimer: been working 16/7 for the past few weeks, so I'm a bit out of the loop. : p

[Frozenbeernuts 1,652]

Going online for the first time in weeks, I discovered a handy article that may address many of your offseason needs: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2489793-everything-is-awesome-a-readers-guide-to-every-minicamp-story-ever (actually, the title should read Mike Tanier Is Awesome).

 

Some snippets:

 

 

 

Disclaimer: been working 16/7 for the past few weeks, so I'm a bit out of the loop. : p

What do you do that would require so many hours? If i worked that many hours for weeks i would die of exhaustion and lack of sleep, probably crashing my car into something. (Dont mean to derail discussion)

[weepaws 2,460]

When you own a small business for 8 years , it's 14 hours a day 6 days a week for the past 8 years that's what would require you to work so many hours . Thank you Jesus for it .