oh heck, anyone that has read my posts for more than a month knows derned well I'm a shitty speller
and I sure as shootin don't care about it, don't care if I can't spell and don't care if someone knows about it
Heck, the AfroMAn knows all this, he just doesn't like my opinion of his Gator glory boy
if he was smack talking Roger Craig I might be checking his spelling
I'm honestly not an Emmitt Smith fanboy, and I view Sanders' '88 season at OKST as hollowed, but Emmitt gets the short end of the stick. Why don't people do the same to Jerry Rice? He had 2 HOF QBs throwing him the ball. He had the most yards/catches of all time. He was "too slow", etc.
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Were the mid-90s Cowboys as widely disliked as the Patriots of today? Was it that? Jealousy? Emmitt and Barry were contemporaries and every year, Emmitt's going to the playoffs and every year Barry is sitting at home. Is this the payback?
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I love exciting players, and Barry was that, but it came at a cost. Think of all the 2nd and 7s that Emmitt (and others) produced that were 2nd and 11s after Barry lost a yard on first down. And if you picture Emmitt's running style, what are the odds he'd duplicate one of Barry's few playoff games of 13 carries for -1 yard. That's messed up. That's not laying an egg, that's pooping out an entire omelet.
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And for what it's worth, this is all in vain, because Jim Brown was the #1 guy. Walter Payton was a worthy successor of the rushing record. Barry never reached it, and now Emmitt, in all of his glorious mediocrity (as some would suggest) has upped the total so high, whoever does come along and break it, will be worthy, too.
