What a Farce -- SI claims Joey the Mouth is "Most Feared Player in NFL"

Imagine my surprise upon finding the latest issue of SI in my mailbox Thursday evening.� There, on the cover, was a picture of Big Joey Porter, with the caption of, "Joey Porter, most feared player in the NFL".�

Ha ha !�� What a farce.� That's the nice benefit of being in the Super Bowl championship team -- players on the title team get overvalued, over-fawned, and over praised.� The prime example is Joey the Mouth, who was all bark -- but little bite -- in the Stillers' 2005 season.�� And fact is, the most dominant Stiller LB in the Sup Bowl win over Seattle was Clark Haggans, not Joey the Mouth.� Big Joey did little the entire game, aside from getting mauled off the LOS and giving up a long 4Q gainer to Shaun Alexander, at the end of which Porter blatantly horsecollared Alexander and was lucky to get away with it without being assessed a costly penalty.�

For the "most feared man in the NFL", funny how Big Joey had 1 -- count 'em, ONE -- tackle in the loss to NE last season.� Or against Cleveland last November, Mister "Most Feared" had a whopping 1 solo and 1 assist while standing around and doing nothing.�� Porter hasn't sunk to the lowly levels of a complete puss such as, say, Jason GilDong, but he's hardly at a fearsome level of a Shawne Merriman, an Odell Thurman, or at least 15 other LBs in the NFL.�

This "honor" bestowed on The Mouth is simply a microcosm of what's wrong in today's society.� "Analysts" don't analyze; rather, they fawn over noise and loudness.� That's how Big Joey, the loudest talker in the NFL, can get elevated to such a farcical nomination.� Jack Lambert never did 1/100th the amount of bullshit gesticulating and boorish antics, yet hit 6 times harder, was 4 times better at tackling, and was, overall, 11 times a better LB.� Ditto for Jack Ham and Andy Russell.�

And this summer you had The Mouth mouthing off about his contract.� Let's hope the Stillers learned their lesson from The Jason GilDong Fiasco.� You don't lavish a LB with a huge contract in his 3rd contract deal, especially when� the LB is a guy like Porter that is clearly in decline.�

To add insult to injury, in the same issue of SI, they previewed each NFL team.� Included was a small section that said, "Which fan web site has the best Steelers info?"� Preposterously enough, although 4 web sites were listed, Stillers.com wasn't one of them.� To be sure, the other sites were fine sites -- a couple are on the Stillers.com link page, in fact -- but to leave off the premier site for the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers, combined with the farcical naming of Porter as "most feared" shows exactly how piss-poor a product SI has become.� Rest assured, I have already contacted SI and canceled my subscription.� I, for one, won't waste good money on lousy trash.�
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Let's hope Big Joey does something to at least put some fear into opponents this season.� Let's hope Big Joey does something worthwhile, as opposed to standing around woofing and barking. �Let's hope.�

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(Still Mill and Stillers.com -- when it comes to the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers, no one else comes close�.)