BloggeRhythms 3/24/2012

Yesterday, I mentioned the considerable differences there are between campaign speeches and the real world and that if Rick Santorum comes unglued and becomes irrational over primary losses, he'd likely rattle completely when faced with important decisions as POTUS. And to me, that shortcoming clearly underlines the point that many amateurs, wannabee’s and never-was’es whom have no conception of what it takes to perform jobs for which they haven't the slightest qualification, still pontificate as if they were experts while remaining clueless. Which brings me to today's subject: Tim Tebow again.

In an article in USA Today on-line, the greatest Jet quarterback ever, legendary Pro Football Hall of Famer, Joe Namath, is quoted as saying "I think it stinks," talking about the Tebow deal.

He went on to say, "The Jets' embrace of Tebow, their excitement over him running a Wildcat offense, and their previous dalliance with Peyton Manning before he signed with Denver, can't help but undermine incumbent starter Mark Sanchez."

Namath continued that if he were in Sanchez's place, he would not be happy about being pulled from the field at critical moments for Tebow this season, because "That's not a pat on the back. That's a slap in the face. If I were there, I'd be pissed off about it. But still go to work and try to make things work. But not be happy about it."

Now, in contrast to Joe, in the same article a New York sports radio personality Mike Francesa noted on WFAN Wednesday, that Tebow is a "leading man" in every way: in leadership skills, in the media coverage he gets and the attention he draws from marketers on Madison Avenue.

So, on one hand we have a living legend in football at every level, from pee wee league to the Pro Football Hall of Fame explaining what a disaster the Tebow deal is and how harmfully he suspects it will affect Sanchez and the team, as opposed to some radio clown who likely doesn't have the coordination to tie his own shoes.

Consequently, to me this Francesa’s another example of folks who do nothing but shoot of their mouths without an iota of real experience or expertise to back up their verbiage. Yet, they promote themselves and pass themselves off as judges of others performance while having absolutely no real knowledge themselves.

And in that regard, Rick Santorum and all these sports "experts" are precisely the same. They haven't a whit of personal involvement, skill, or knowledge about a particular job, yet somehow have anointed themselves to the highest levels of critical judgement about it, which is ludicrous at best. But far sadder than these self-aggrandizing buffoons is anyone dumb enough to put any value on their worthless hot air, because if they believe what they hear from these skill-less windbags they obviously never suited up either.

That's for today folks.

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