LOL: Prominent Sports Blog Tries to Attack GOP Senate Candidate, Humiliates Itself

Townhall.com ^ | October 16, 2014 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

In what might be the strangest attempted 'opposition research' dump of the election cycle, the sports blog Deadspin published an item Wednesday evening accusing Colorado Republican Senate nominee of lying about having played high school football. The report, which was quickly exposed as absolutely false, didn't even attempt to conceal its authors' political agenda (content warning):

[PATRIOT1876]

The twit who deadspun the “climate-change-denyin’” nonsense will be looking even more foolish in a couple of years when even more people are laughing are the incredibly gullible zombie-like fools that STILL believe in the man made Global Warming Scam.
Someone who promotes one of the biggest lies in the history of the world has the nerve to call anyone a liar?!?!
THAT'S RICH!

That will be nothing compared to how he'll feel when his article showing how proud he is that his candidate is “Jesus-free” on the Day of Judgment.

[TurboZamboni]

What union does he belong to?

[yarddog]

I once read that 20 years after graduation, nearly every guy remembered that he played high school football, ran the 100 (yards) in 10 seconds and could bench press 250 lbs.

[rrrod]

All Democrats are scum alert...cont’d

[bkepley]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/16/deadspin-reporter-on-cory-gardner-story-if-its-wrong-its-my-fault/

[bkepley]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/16/deadspin-reporter-on-cory-gardner-story-if-its-wrong-its-my-fault/

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Liked to postscript in which the author notes that lying through your teeth is a career enhancement for Democrat politicians. For Republicans, it’s supposed to be a career killer to even suggest a “credential" which is irrelevant to the job. Saying you “played high school football” when you weren’t on the team in your senior year, and were never a starter? Gasp! Stop the presses!

I could say I “played high school football” too - if you count the time I replaced a starter at the end of the last game of my sophomore year, when the game was in hand and the crowd was being given the opportunity to cheer the starter, a senior, off the field. The sum total of my “varsity football career."

[bkepley]

I could say I “played high school football” too - if you count the time I replaced a starter at the end of the last game of my sophomore year

I don't follow you. I was never a starter but I have no problem saying I played. Liked it too. I was at the time undersized. The coaches were idiots who only looked at your size.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I once read that 20 years after graduation, nearly every guy remembered that he played high school football, ran the 100 (yards) in 10 seconds and could bench press 250 lbs.”

And dated a cheerleader.

[dfwgator]

ESPN, with their political interjecting is killing sports.

[MNlurker]

Wow.

I honestly had no idea that there were people writing for Deadspin that were older than 25. The guy is 53???

I’d have been ashamed by my writing well before beclowning myself on this story.

[BilLies]

Never heard of Deadspin or Dave McKenna before and so I visited the site. Will not be back. McKenna and the commentators who agreed with him often made comments with references to penises ........... I assume it is a gay men’s gather place ...... They must have had a gay old time talking sports when Dallas picked up Michael Sam.
Also McKenna “sports” a real teabaggers beard.

[itsahoot]

And dated a cheerleader, who was also prom queen.

[DaiHuy]

Hmmm. Been 45 yrs since I graduated. Never played Fooball in H.S. Benched about 185, and hated running. 100 yd dash. 18 seconds on a good day. Did however wrestle varsity at 95lbs.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I don't follow you. I was never a starter but I have no problem saying I played. Liked it too. I was at the time undersized. The coaches were idiots who only looked at your size.

I didn’t go out for football after my Sophomore year, not for lack of "size of the dog in the fight,” but really for lack of “size of the fight in the dog.” As a senior starter, my brother was so seriously injured in a HS game (during my Sophomore year) that no one ever raised the idea of my playing football, ever again. No one - coach or even fellow student - would have dared to ask my parents to sign a consent form for it, or even to suggest it to me.

There wasn’t a formal difference between members of the JV and the varsity; there were just members of the team who played on Saturday, and those who didn’t - a.k.a., “the JV." And there was a little variability of people in those categories during the season. As a sophomore I was a starter on the JV team, making only the one appearance on the varsity field that I described previously.

Absent my brother’s injury, I would presumably have started as a senior. As matters played out, that wasn’t in the cards.

[yarddog]

185 lbs is pretty impressive for a guy who weighted 95.

[vpintheak]

Well, I could do more than the last one, but that’s it!
(Wouldn’t try it today...)

[husky ed]

"I once read that 20 years after graduation, nearly every guy remembered that he played high school football, ran the 100 (yards) in 10 seconds and could bench press 250 lbs."

I was a starter my Senior year. After half the team and Head Coach was canned for a drinking at a party after one game :O

Ed

[M-cubed]

“I once read that 20 years after graduation, nearly every guy remembered that he played high school football, ran the 100 (yards) in 10 seconds and could bench press 250 lbs.”

And dated a cheerleader.<<<

and fooled around with the hottest teacher in school...

(ok..I lied..it was the yr after I graduated....*W*)