Every Saturday I am going to write a "what grinds my gears" segment, which is pretty self-explanatory. It will be about what really bugs me about sports during the previous week. The thing that really bugs me about professional sports is the whole "retirement" deal with Brett Favre and Derrick Mason. I swear if I ever had the opportunity to retire from professional sports as one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history after winning a Super Bowl and setting the record for touchdown passes in a career, I would take retirement and have worked in the front office for the Packers. It really grinds my gears because, for example if someone retires from a normal career, it means they are done working and can enjoy the so called "fruits of their labor." To a professional athlete it means "Hey I don't know if I can keep doing this, but if I can, I want to play with a different team and won't let that team know if I can play until the day before training camp opens, even though they paid for my surgery." In other words professional athletes have grown so accustomed to being in the spotlight that when they are no longer in that limelight, they have to get that attention back. If you are never enough or never feel good enough without it, you will absolutely never feel good enough with it. Favre next year, spare us all the idiotic rumors and don't ever think about coming back, because the more you dangle that in front of us, the more your legacy is tainted. Most Viking fans are relieved they won't have to deal with Brett Favre, even though they have desperately been searching for a good quarterback ever since Daunte Culpepper left the franchise. The face of the franchise is stud running back Adrian Peterson and he really doesn't need to be overshadowed by the dying legacy of an old quarterback, who never really wanted to come back in the first place. If you are going to retire, STAY RETIRED!!!!!
Another thing that really grinds my gears is the number of unsigned draft picks who still have not reported to training camp, holding out for more money. You have got to be kidding me? How much money do you have to fork over to get a first-round draft pick signed? I mean come on, this draft pick is someone who has not played in the NFL ever, but unfortunately gets the idea in his head that rookies should get paid millions of dollars to just show up to training camp. The only proven rookie's that usually make an impact are offensive lineman, such as Jake Long of the Miami Dolphins. Most of these players need to get into camp so they can get NFL ready, because we all now the NFL is a lot faster then college football. It will be interesting to see which ones can actually make a difference.
The last thing this week that really grinds my gears is Michael Vick. Everyone is talking about how great Vick will be and how anyone with roster space should sign him. There is talk that the commissioner's conditional reinstatement is too harsh. ARE YOU JOKING?!?!?! Vick bankrolled and participated in an illegal dog fighting ring and lied to the federal government and to Commisioner Goodell's face about it. He has not played football in two years and the talk of the town is that Vick will take a team to the Super Bowl, using the new "wildcat" formation the Dolphins introduced last season. No, I say send Vick to the UFL and then, if he can handle it, sign him to the practice squad to help your defense prepare for the wildcat formation. Vick will not change, he will be in trouble by Week 6 in the NFL, and whoever signs him, will regret it, just as the Cowboys regretted trading for Adam "Pacman" Jones before he was ever reinstated into the NFL. You would think teams would learn from the Cowboys mistakes and that is what grinds my gears.
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