(ot) The Chicago Tribune takes to the ice

[tinopuno]

'CHRISSY PRONGER - LOOKS LIKE TARZAN, SKATES LIKE JANE'


This was the HEADLINE yesterday in the Chicago Tribune's sportspage. Below is the accompanying poster size picture.







How bush, classless and inaccurate is that ! Especially for a widely read and respected newspaper. If we got a candid opinion of the piece from Hawks coach Joel Quennville, I'm sure the descriptor "stupid" would be added.

Talk about a town's overcompensating for an inferiority complex. I suppose it just demonstrates again the Chicago really is The Second (Rate) City.

[BIGPHILLY]

Maybe I'm just a chauvanistic pig but I don't see why this is so bad. Is it stupid? Probably. But what is classless about it? It's a friendly rivalry in the heat of a a punishing series in which Pronger is the villain.

How many times have you called your friend a girl or playing like a girl when competing in a sport with them in your lifetime? It's a joke.

[eagle eye]

The editor said he was just having fun with it. Erotic fun undoubtedly.

[sfphillyfan]

it'd be hilarious if your paper wasn't trying to be respectable. This is the stuff you expect from the NY Post and some random blogger, not a newspaper that actually wants to win pulitzers.

For example, I'd expect something like this from the Daily News but not the Inky. (Even though I don't think the daily news has ever done this.)

[tinopuno]

How many times have you called your friend a girl or playing like a girl when competing in a sport with them in your lifetime? It's a joke.

Maybe it's just different generations BP. I never talked 'Smack' before or after a game. I've always believed you let the quality/intensity of your play do the talking.

I also would suggest that there's a differnece between what individual people/players say to one another vs the editorial position of the Sports Editor of the Tribune. It would be one thing if it were in anyway accurate, but the reason the Hawks have been bitching about Pronger since the beginning of the finals is that he's been bitch slapping them around.

[BIGPHILLY]

Maybe it's just different generations BP. I never talked 'Smack' before or after a game. I've always believed you let the quality/intensity of your play do the talking.

I also would suggest that there's a differnece between what individual people/players say to one another vs the editorial position of the Sports Editor of the Tribune. It would be one thing if it were in anyway accurate, but the reason the Hawks have been bitching about Pronger since the beginning of the finals is that he's been bitch slapping them around.

* Good response. I appreciate your viewpoint now.

I do, however, think Pronger has been playing mind games and getting under the collective skin of all of Chicago and that's what you are seeing. This kind of act from a paper - is just what the doctor ordered for us. Pronger and Co. are going to win game 6.

Then it's one game for all the marbles.

C'mon on Flyers.

[sfphillyfan]

tino - i talk so much smack when playing pickup bb. it's more hilarious cause i suck.

but never talked smack in a competitive situation.

[tinopuno]

tino - i talk so much smack when playing pickup bb. it's more hilarious cause i suck.

but never talked smack in a competitive situation.

When I was still playing competitive sports (that's been awhile now), anyone who talked 'smack' before a game was considered a provocative asshole and was usually 'disciplined' by his own teammates. Talking shit after a game was only done by 'poor losers' or 'classless winners'. Either way, it was frowned upon by teammates and seen as embarrassing. Being a 'good sport' was important.

In baseball, very little was said to opponents before, during or after a game unless you were friendly with some guys or you got in the infrequent post game scuffle. Lot's of shit was said during football games, but you mainly left it on the field. I see that as one of the real positve aspects of football...when you're angry with another guy, you can beat the shit out of one another during the game and then shake hands, and mean it, when the game is over.

I was a decent baseball and football player but, like you, pretty much sucked at hoops. Could never shoot worth a damn. Never 'talked' much during a game either, but I did have a role. I fancied myself a tough defender and never thought it was fair that some opponents dubbed me 'The Hatchet Man'.

[Zepster]

When I was still playing competitive sports (that's been awhile now), anyone who talked 'smack' before a game was considered a provocative asshole and was usually 'disciplined' by his own teammates. Talking shit after a game was only done by 'poor losers' or 'classless winners'. Either way, it was frowned upon by teammates and seen as embarrassing. Being a 'good sport' was important.

In baseball, very little was said to opponents before, during or after a game unless you were friendly with some guys or you got in the infrequent post game scuffle. Lot's of shit was said during football games, but you mainly left it on the field. I see that as one of the real positve aspects of football...when you're angry with another guy, you can beat the shit out of one another during the game and then shake hands, and mean it, when the game is over.

I was a decent baseball and football player but, like you, pretty much sucked at hoops. Could never shoot worth a damn. Never 'talked' much during a game either, but I did have a role. I fancied myself a tough defender and never thought it was fair that some opponents dubbed me 'The Hatchet Man'.

Tino you and I definitely need to get a beer sometime. I still play competetive sports, (for how much longer I don't know, the surgeries are catching up to me) I was pretty good at just about everything and excelled in a couple of sports. Volleyball was one of them and I still play today. I played in USVBA ball in the mid atlantic region for 10 yrs and dealt with many a shit talker and I just had no room for that garbage. It's not the way I was brought up or taught to play by my father and coaches in my youth. It's a sickening trend that continues of poor sportsmanship and just a total lack of class among todays youth and it keeps getting worse. The media helps nothing as they glorify these assholes as the good guys play in relative obscurity.

My dad told me to watch how Paterno coached and how his players acted on and off the field. That's the way it was supposed to be done and I firmly believe that to be true. There's no I in team but these shit heads continue to say "look at me" and it's makes want to puke.

[balto-eaglefan]

Stay classy, Chicago.........

Stuff like that, I'd expect from a tabloid like the PDN or the NY Post. The Tribune, I'm surprised, but maybe that's how they really are?

[leifdawg]

Some people go over the top with trash talk but, against certain opponents it can be used as psychological warfare to take you opponent off his/her game.