Oh...the media...

by redwolf75 on Jan 6, 2008 12:28 PM PST Comment 11 comments

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22518524/

Check out this AP article, it includes every seahawks cliche on the face of the planet ("creampuff schedule" etc.), not to mention obvious inaccuracies, such as "they failed to catch a simple kickoff" -- it was a goddamn punt

Oh yeah, and it's on MSNBC -- they really do hate the 'hawks, don't they?

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Hey, media

We beat a winning team. Are you fucking happy now?

--Shrug

by Shrug on Jan 6, 2008 12:42 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

It was a kickoff

by kentroyals5 on Jan 6, 2008 1:21 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

shit

you're right, it was after their 2nd TD.

In anycase, a minor point, was mainly focused on the bias in the article.

by redwolf75 on Jan 6, 2008 2:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

can we stop these posts?

we get it, the media (and I) was wrong and john was right.

there, i said it, now stop the posts please.

"We want the ball and we're going to score"

by stlcardinalsfang on Jan 6, 2008 1:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Seattlesucks

You've been wrong 11 times this season so...

Bring on the Redskins!

by SSreporters on Jan 6, 2008 2:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

And he'll

have to shut up after we beat the packers (hopefully!)

by redwolf75 on Jan 6, 2008 2:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

hey!

i picked the 'hawks for at least half their wins this season, go back and look.

"We want the ball and we're going to score"

by stlcardinalsfang on Jan 6, 2008 5:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

screw that

by Matthew on Jan 6, 2008 2:36 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

n/s

Seattlesucks is right in that we shouldn't worry about getting respect in the media. In cases where someone's so way off-base (see the below comment about Boswell of the Post), I think we're entitled to crow about it. Trash talking's just trash talking. But battling the media perception of the Seahawks -- eh, I just prefer we let the team take care of that themselves.

I mean, we don't give the Seahawks a clean pass ourselves, and we're their fans. (SS excepted, of course.) The playing field decides everything.

--Shrug

by Shrug on Jan 6, 2008 7:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

n/s

The media did not bother me all season. It's never really bothered me. They do their job, usually to the best of their abilities, and we do as we're supposed to: react. I don't really have a problem with that arrangement, or rather, I don't feel that there's any reason for me to get riled up about what the media says. Anybody can say what they want about the Seahawks; they're just opinions.

It's only when one of them says something so obviously, short-sightedly wrong that I think we're in our rights to lash back. For me, it was Boswell of the Washington Post, claiming that with their easy schedule factored in, the Seahawks had "possibly the worst defense in the NFL." That was just homer-generated stupidity crossing over, and blinding some guy with a newspaper job from the statistical realities (not to mention the starting roster of the NFC defense at the Pro Bowl next month). If you're gonna make a sweepingly general opinion about something -- "the best" this, "the worst" that -- even if you qualify it with a "possibly," you'd better say something that will at least stand up on the field.

I admire Boswell's pluck, though. It takes a lot of balls to be willing to expose yourself as an idiot just so you can grab headlines in Google searches.

And the "they haven't beaten a winning team!" stuff finally got to me. So I was glad to get that taken care of.

Wilbon saying we're "soft," that's another matter. That's open to debate. It's not necessarily an end-all, over-stretching statement. Boswell was just stupid. You can't fight stupid.

--Shrug

by Shrug on Jan 6, 2008 7:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

agreed

but I still like throwing it back in their faces, especially when it feels like they don't really acknowledge the win. I.e. you rarely ever see a "wow, I was totally wrong about the Seahawks [fill in the blank]"

Not that this is restricted to Seattle sports either, I don't want to sound like I think all media hates/ignores Seattle.

The only part where I would disagree with you Shrug is this: They do their job, usually to the best of their abilities

Based on my working experience, this just simply isn't true. It's a rare media pundit/writer/columnist/whatever that actually works up to his or her full ability. A lot of them are talented writers (they wouldn't get as far as they do if they weren't), but, again based on my experiences only, once they reach a certain level, it seems like they feel that they "have arrived" so to speak, and start spending way less time trying to better understand the topics they cover.

I'm not familiar enough with football to cite examples, but on the baseball side, Larry Stone and Geoff Baker would represent two guys who I think do work to the best of their ability insomuch as they actually try to understand baseball better. They're open to new ideas, seek them out.

by Matthew on Jan 7, 2008 6:50 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs