12-27-2002, 11:36 AM
It is articles like this, that really get me in a lather!!! :mad:
<a href='http://www.freep.com/sports/drewsharp/drew27_20021227.htm' target='_blank'>Drew Sharp can Bite Me!!!</a>
Here are three of my biggest gripes with the article:
First, the byline intimates the crowd was mostly there to see the field and not the game. Sure, that's partly true, but why have it as the BYLINE???
Second, there in no mention the Motor City Bowl has been successful all SIX of its years; it has been well supported by MAC fans; and it seems to be growing.
Third (and this really pisses me off), he concludes by saying:
Eventually??? Eventually??? Isn't this the sixth MCB? Hasn't MAC teams won four of the them and was very competitive in the first? We get blown out of ONE game and the writer's last sentence implicitly downgrades the MAC.
Finally, somewhere I heard Drew Sharp graduated from CMU. I hope this is not true. If it is, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM? Couldn't get into U-M? Got cut from the CMU football team? Yes, YES, YES, I know we aren't as good as the Big Ten. But why can't the Detroit sports press consistently report and support the MAC? :mad:
We really are CINDERELLA: constantly ignored and/or abused by the wicked step-sisters and step-mother. Sure, we get to go to the ball once in a while, but every time the clock strikes midnight we turn back into a pumpkin and have to await the opportunity of the next ball.
<a href='http://www.freep.com/sports/drewsharp/drew27_20021227.htm' target='_blank'>Drew Sharp can Bite Me!!!</a>
Here are three of my biggest gripes with the article:
First, the byline intimates the crowd was mostly there to see the field and not the game. Sure, that's partly true, but why have it as the BYLINE???
Second, there in no mention the Motor City Bowl has been successful all SIX of its years; it has been well supported by MAC fans; and it seems to be growing.
Third (and this really pisses me off), he concludes by saying:
Quote: But novelties eventually wear thin. And like the Lions, the Motor City Bowl eventually will have to provide an enthralling on-field product to get these folks back downtown.
Eventually??? Eventually??? Isn't this the sixth MCB? Hasn't MAC teams won four of the them and was very competitive in the first? We get blown out of ONE game and the writer's last sentence implicitly downgrades the MAC.
Finally, somewhere I heard Drew Sharp graduated from CMU. I hope this is not true. If it is, WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM? Couldn't get into U-M? Got cut from the CMU football team? Yes, YES, YES, I know we aren't as good as the Big Ten. But why can't the Detroit sports press consistently report and support the MAC? :mad:
We really are CINDERELLA: constantly ignored and/or abused by the wicked step-sisters and step-mother. Sure, we get to go to the ball once in a while, but every time the clock strikes midnight we turn back into a pumpkin and have to await the opportunity of the next ball.