I think Clay is a great writer, but I think his knowledge of actual sports ends with getting drunk at tailgates. I pretty much had that feeling even when I read his old CBS Sportline column back in the day. Just thought he did a good job capturing the culture around the SEC and that sort of thing really well, and then maybe I just grew up too. But now and then he'd say something that reminded me of things my casual football watching friends say while watching games that makes me want to shout and punch them.
Look at how the piece of shit owner is saying he doesn't understand why Peyton didn't want to "come home". "Home" is Louisiana. It isn't Nashville.
Thought it as I read the book, but hindsight certainly helps confirm. It was just too over the top to be believable.
As a UT/Titans fan (bigger UT), I as everybody, am disappointed that he didn't choose to come to the Titans. I looked at the #ComeHomePeyton stuff as more of a statewide sentiment that most people had, than a Nashville deal. I realize that he looked at each situation and feels like Denver presents the best situation for that. Can't be mad at a guy for making what he feels is the best decision for himself personally.
That's pretty perceptive of you. I read the book just to learn some things about that debacle of a year and didn't consider too much about the rest. I'd love to see him answer a few UT trivia questions just for curiosity's sake.
The funniest part of the Travis rant is the part where he said Manning "sold out" for more money, as if people don't look for the highest paying job possible for themselves. All that I learned today is that I hate the Titans' fans even more with their total sense of entitlement, continued sense that they represent Tennessee and whiny ass response to his decision.
I don't give myself too much credit. Go back and read the chapter where he watched the Sugar Bowl against Miami. It's so sappy your hands will stick to the pages. He basically wants us to believe that he was a bigger fan around age four than Al Wilson was circa 1998.
Checked it out of the library, and frankly, I don't even remember that part. Doesn't matter though. It seems obvious now and I'm ticked he toyed with my nostalgia like that. (Half-kidding, half-serious btw).
Someone calling someone else a sell-out is basically saying: "Hey I hate you for being more successful than me".
How many chapters was that book? I'm thinking around 3 or 4 out of 12 chapters were him convincing us that he is VFL and has been since birth. Why the need for that? Do you constantly share stories about how you learned addition by adding Carl Pickens's jersey to Andy Kelly's?
Have seen several people on facebook (supposed Titans fans) today play the "we didn't want him anyway card" and then proceed to talk about how he never won anything while he was in Tennessee anyway. One even went so far as to post that he hopes he breaks both of his legs in Denver. Class folks. We are in short supply of it.
I'm a titans fan too. I just don't understand why virtually our whole state is so butt hurt about the whole "issue." I obviously wanted him here too, but I also understand (like most rational people should) that there are multiple factors that go into making a decision like that when considering what place is a good fit. If that fit is in Denver, so be it.
