http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Articles/11_1797_Skeletons_in_the_closet.html STEVE YOUNG's SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET The complaint: Young said on ESPN Monday that New England?s big victories are tarnishing its image. Apparently, he pines for the days when the Patriots were a ?lucky? team manned by a bunch of ?overachievers? who squeaked out close wins. He also implied some sort of psychoses on behalf of Bill Belichick this year. New England?s big margins of victory are the result of Belichick?s ?insecurity from spygate,? said Young from behind the desk on ESPN. The skeletons in the closet: Maybe Belichick is feeling the same kind of insecurity Young felt after playing second fiddle to Joe Montana in the hearts and minds of San Francisco football fans ? the same kind of insecurity that caused Young to throw a record six TD passes in Super Bowl XXIX, the last in the fourth quarter with his team sporting a comfortable 42-18 lead against the overmatched 11-5 Chargers. Young in the ESPN segment also lamented getting his ass handed to him by the Bears back when he was with Tampa Bay. Indeed, the Bears did beat the Bucs 48-14 back in 1986, Young?s second and last year in Tampa. But he conveniently failed to mention San Francisco?s 52-14 deconstruction of the Bears when he was with the 49ers in 1991. Finally, Young also kind of forgot to mention how the 49ers treated the woeful Falcons during his tenure in San Francisco: which is pretty much the same way you treat the water in your toilet bowl. Here are just some of the scores of the San Francisco-Atlanta series during Young?s tenure leading the post-Montana 49ers: 1992 ? San Fran 56, Atlanta 17 1992 ? San Fran 41, Atlanta 3 1994 ? San Fran 42, Atlanta 3 1994 ? San Fran 50, Atlanta 14 JASON CAMPBELL'S SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET The complaint: The Redskins quarterback had a gem after the Patriots game Sunday. ?When we?re in those situations,? said Campbell, ?we tend to back off.? The skeletons in the closet: Campbell's quote is funny, seeing he's never been in ?one those situations? in his NFL career. :rofl: In his one and a half seasons in a Washington uniform (he didn't do anyything his first year, 2005), the Redskins have won a grand total of one game by two TDs or more ? a 34-3 win over Detroit earlier this year. In other words, Campbell has never in his time with the Redskins found himself in "one of those situations" where he would ?tend to back off.? Maybe Campbell had his pro career confused with his college career, like that time he led upstart Auburn to a 73-7 win over the mighty Warhawks of Louisiana-Monroe.
Not just any Mormon. Steve Young is a direct descendant of Brigham Young, himself. But live and let live. He's happy and devout.
Quoting the final scores is nice and all, but when delving deeper into it you really see, that there are no skeletons in Steve Young's closet. 1992 – San Fran 56, Atlanta 17 Oct. 18, 1992 SF points by Qtr - 1-21 2-21 3-14 4-0 1992 – San Fran 41, Atlanta 3 Nov. 9, 1992 SF points by Qtr- 1-7 2-7 3-13 4-14 14 points in the 4th quarter? While the score was still 27-3 Steve Young threw a 19 yard TD pass to Jerry Rice to make the score 34-3. They followed that up with a Merton Hanks 48 yd PR for a TD to make the final score 41-3. 27-3 is an acceptable score to still be throwing the ball. 1994 – San Fran 42, Atlanta 3 Oct. 16, 1994 SF points by Qtr- 1-14 2-14 3-14 4-0 1994 – San Fran 50, Atlanta 14 Dec. 4, 1994 SF points by Qtr- 1-3 2-24 3-7 4-16 16 points in the 4th quarter?!?!? With the score 34-14 Steve Young threw a TD pass of 9 yards to Jerry Rice 2:46 into the 4th quarter. Young was then taken out for Elvis Grbac. This is the 2nd time this week I have heard a Pats fan use the 49ers as an example of it being okay to show up another team. Well, as you can see they are two very different situations. Nice try though...
BB is clearly trying to win back the money he was fined by betting the Pats. I don't care if they want to run up the score. Teams need to stop them if they don't want it to happen - I know, I know, overused saying, but I believe it 100%. The Pats are also taking a risk by doing so if someone gets injured, so it's there own choice. Whatever.
Really? I bet Brigham Young has an ass load of decedents thanks to the polygamy. God, I love Mormons!
Excellent post. The funniest thing about this whole running up the score issue is that the same Pats fans who claim that "there's no law against it" keep trying to defend it as business as usual, which it isn't. It is certainly true that there's no law against running up the score. There's also no law against being an egotistical jackass who is a disgusting human being, which is why BB isn't in jail. If you want to say that professional athletes should just suck it up, that's fine, but that doesn't change the fact that the Patriots are behaving like pieces of crap, and deserve whatever bad karma happens to come their way as a result (if you believe in such things).
There's been mounting evidence that Brigham Young himself directly ordered the Mountain Meadows Massacre on Sept. 11th, 1857, and then conspired to hide his involvement (i.e. he let someone else take the fall). 120+ unarmed men, women, and children murdered in Utah Territory on a wagon train bound for California. Bludgeoned, stabbed, shot, and clubbed to death, stripped of their clothes and belongings and left for the wolves and vultures. Mark Twain was horrified over the incident. I question whether Brigham Young was the 'nice guy prophet' he's often portrayed as. But whatever.
If your idea of class is calling attention to a cheating scandal he knew about, that affects the integrity of the NFL itself...quite fine thank you very much
Two points on this post 1- Neither has Belichik. 2- Man-judas will never see a Superbowl. After the Jets dump Man-judas, his stabbing in the back of the man who took him from ball-boy to potential head coach will make his name dirt in the NFL and he'll be lucky to get another job, never mind even getting a sniff of a Superbowl.
I think we should just have a thread called Pats-Fan Circle-Jerk where you guys can spout your romantic fantasies about how things happen behind closed doors in Foxboro. We can probably even get it published with a picture of Fabio sporting Belichick's face and firmly grasping the bosom of Scott Pioli on a cliffside next to a white gelding. They'd need to hire the National Guard to mop the semen off the floor of the Razor the day something like that went on sale.
Ah yes, the other refuge of the Pats fan who doesn't want to just accept that their coach has his team playing like classless pieces of crap - the Judas card. I do note, of course, that there is never the claim that the accusations of cheating were actually untrue, naturally, just that even after two other teams told the Pats to stop cheating and they didn't, Mangini should have just allowed his mentor to continue to gain an unfair advantage over him indefinitely.
