Re-defining Trash Talk in Fantasy Football League Forums
Sep 04 '04
The Bottom Line Talk the trash and play the game. That's all it is.
As this is recreation, I hope there Fantasy Football Managers out there who agree with me on this one topic: trash talking is not what it used to be.
It is therefore that I have prepared an essay on the subject, using Microsoft Word, and copy it here for ease in distribution.
"In response to the recent and negligible display of trash talking, I am here to give you a clear and concise definition of trash talking, illuminated by an example, so clearly has the trash-talk goddess missed in blessing Fantasy Football this year (someone forgot to sacrifice).
Trash talk: Conversations in which one person tries to upset, disorient or anger another, in hopes of gaining an advantage in an athletic, mental or spiritual competition.
This is not trash talk:
"My team is clearly one of the best in the league."
This is not trash talk, nor is it really saying anything. Is anyone upset by it? I sure am not. Is anyone disoriented? I sure am not. Is any one angered? I sure am not. In fact, a statement such of the likes should have no business in a Fantasy Football League forum: not here, not even in my kid's 2nd grade gym class.
Example of trash talk:
Dear Mr. "Utopian Senators", also known as "Msr GT" or "Sissy",
As if the fact that you stole your name from own f****** college is not proof enough of your idiocy and insanity, maybe I should point to the fact that you based your team's "alacrity" and "worthiness" on the notion that Matt Hasselback and Darrel Jackson are, according to ESPN, part of a dynamite team of superbowl caliber. Now while I do not dispute the competence of the Seattle Seahawks, I do want to point out that the NFL and Fantasy Football are not the same thing.
Also, may I remind of you of last year's starting QB's for the Superbowl: Tom Brady (a pretentious 2nd rounder as you already pointed out) and Jake Delhomme. Before that, such notables are Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson, let alone Tom Brady again. Now, if you had chosen those two at the start of last year, I think you would have been so ashamed of your own team that you would have retired, hanging your jersey over your fireplace like a moosehead. Yet that was not the case, and here you are today.
For that reason, I am now sending you an urgent warning to remove all guns, needles, knives or anything else that can harm you, from you immediate vicinity. For when the season starts, and you realize that while the teams of your players are doing incredibly well, the players, though good at blocking and doing the little things to help their teams win, simply cannot get the fantasy points, and you, ad continuum, are in last place, the need may arise to end your life or at least justify its existence.
I would expect most trash talking, of course, to be of lower intelligence than that of above, mine only being displayed here in case this example some how finds itself in the hands of Websters or Thorndike Barnhart, such avaricious companies surely wanting to use it for their own ends.
All in fair fun,
Your Last Bastion of Sanity,
R.J. Reinold
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