September
2006
Steelers’ Joey Porter and American trash talk1
So I’m sitting here watching the opening of today’s Steelers-Bengals game, and the network shows a prime example of the mean, mean trash talk and putdowns players from opposing forces are famed for throwing at each other.
“Y’all better check the rap sheet - y’all have only won 1 out of the past 5 games,” he said to some hapless player from the other side.
I wonder how many people consider this an unsportsmanlike, perhaps indelicate behavior. I mean, they should meet as gentlemen and much backslapping should commence after the engagement, with some accompanying Good show, old boy, no? Eh?
When people talk about how players in sports trash-talk each other, and how prevalent it is, as if this is a bad thing - I wonder how many of them have heard what is said at a football match. No, not American football. The soccer variety, which actually earns the name it is known by in the rest of the first world by being played with a ball and feet.
Everyone’s favorite 30-something desperate latina swizzle stick has announced her intention to never ever leave Desperate Housewives (*sighs* of what we think is relief are heard from Maxim’s viewing audience), but she won’t work in television after the show’s tearful and tabloid-reportah attended final episode has wrapped, however-many-odd years that is hence.