Here’s the second installment of a new column called ‘Top 10 Things In Sports,’ a new weekly thing I’ll be doing. Here’s his list of the top 10 things in sports that we think are overrated and people care too much.
#10 NHL Regular Season
There were a lot of mixed emotions about leaving me out of the NHL’s ‘Top 10 Things in Sports That Suck’, but don’t worry hockey haters. The shallow and pedantic NHL regular season makes this list instead. Go see a regular season hockey game and then tell me it should be on ESPN. In the NHL, if it’s not the playoffs, it’s not interesting, unless it’s sixty minutes of fighting.
#9 Bad NBA Teams
The lower-tier teams in the National Basketball Association can achieve a new milestone this season by fielding three teams with fewer than twenty wins. If it happens, it will be the first time since 2001 that the league has had at least three such teams. The competitors this year are the Minnesota Timberwolves (17-50), the Memphis Grizzlies (16-51), the Seattle SuperSonics (16-52) and the current leader Miami Heat (12-55). Next year, to be fair, I think the Heat should move on to NCAA College Division II basketball. People have always said that any team in the NBA can beat any other team on any given night, but if you’re going to tell me that right now, then that’s crazy!
#8 Rare NFL Game Times
In case anyone is wondering, NFL games are supposed to be played on Thanksgiving, Sunday and every Monday night, but the league seems to think otherwise. NFL, why don’t you stop playing with us and schedule games on random Thursday and Saturday nights? it would be much appreciated.
#7 Watch baseball on TV
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate the sport of baseball, America’s supposed “pastime,” but watching baseball on TV is not the same as being at the game. The ball is almost never in play, you lose focus so easily while doing other things, and you’ll miss the entire “Lost” episode. Just go to the ball park next time. The worst Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates, or Kansas City Royals in your league will really appreciate your business.
#6 Referees
As a kid I was always taught to treat the ref with respect and did my best except for the time I hit the mean old man (just kidding), but recently a lot of refs have gotten on my nerves. If these guys want respect from the players, they need to stop making horrible calls, and that is gambling on games.
#5 Pro Star Games
I’m going to go ahead and say it: If you watch the NFL Pro-Bowl, you have way too much time on your hands. You really need to get a hobby or something if that’s the case. More than that, I don’t like All-Star Games because who wants to see superstars play against each other and look just normal when they can play mediocre players on other teams and look great?
#4 Part of the college football bowling season
It really pisses me off when I watch a bowling game on TV the last week of December and then it’s something like the New Orleans Bowl. I think once when I was younger all the bad bowling actually made me sick, I got chicken pox and made me miss a week of school. But this year, when they put the International Bowl on January 5 and the GMAC Bowl on January 6, it really made me want to throw up.
#3 mixed martial arts
Before I get attacked on this one, let me say that I’ve seen mixed martial arts before. The problem is that every time I’ve seen it, the two guys “fighting” end up on top of each other fucking and fighting like little girls. At least The Rock really moved in wrestling, you know, like people’s elbows.
#2 “Experts” in specific knowledge sports
Guys like Mel Kiper Jr. and Joe Lunardi really annoy me because they seem to get paid and go on TV for no reason. Both guys are so-called “experts” on the NFL draft and bracketology, respectively. The problem I see with that is that they never tell me anything I don’t know or can’t look up.
#1 College Basketball RPI
The RPI, or Grade Percentage Index, is outdated, and due to the NCAA’s turnaround mentality, they really need to get rid of the thing. It’s obvious that the NCAA college basketball selection committee didn’t use RPI as much of a factor this year because while Dayton and Illinois State (ranked 32nd and 33rd in RPI) didn’t make it into the tournament, Kentucky and Oregon (ranked 57th and 58 in RPI) yes. Personally, I think it’s a stupid and incomplete statistic, so the NCAA should do us all a favor and get rid of it. And you probably used the silly thing to help fill in your parentheses. morons!
