PAUL CALVISI

Paulie Blog – Sawed Off Shotgun of Sports

Jul 14, 2012, 4:29 PM | Updated: 6:36 pm

Please stand back as we’re wielding the Sawed Off Shotgun
of Sports…

The statue of Joe Paterno should not be removed. It
should be detonated. To leave the statue standing
effectively degrades and demeans every other statue across
our landscape that stands with dignity (ie, Pat Tillman).

The NCAA should not intervene and dissolve the Penn State
football program. Why? Because, according to Forbes, in
the year preceding July 1, 2011, Penn State tied with
Georgia for the second-highest football profit ($53
million). Hence, it should turn Penn State into a non-
profit. From PSU to PBS. Never again should Penn State
profit from football. Imposing the death penalty punishes
the innocent. So mandate that every single dollar in
profit goes to the victims, charities, and other campus
programs. Penn State has lost the right to profit from
football.

Who says that past performance is not an indication of
future results? Paulie Crystal Ball says the City of
Glendale is destined to become the next city to declare
bankruptcy. How? Why? Trust us, based on past bungles,
Glendale will eventually blunder its way into bankruptcy,
unable to weather its own dysfunction – regardless of
whether the Coyotes stay in the 623. #Stockton
#SanBernardino.

Once again, the “D” in Dback stands for “Dr. Jekyll & Mr.
Hyde.” In fact, if the 2012 Dbacks went to see a real
doctor, they’d probably be diagnosed as bipolar. Two
words should appear atop the patient file — inexplicably
inconsistent. And if the franchise itself is trying to
send a message to its franchise player by benching,
booing, and (possibly) trading Justin Upton, then where’s
the outrage and public flogging of strugggggling ace Ian
Kennedy?!

Did you hear what Steve Nash told Craig Fouhy/ABC15 in an
exclusive interview following his Lakers press conference:
“I always wanted to stay with the Suns and continue there,
but when I realized that wasn’t going to happen and
they’re rightfully going in a new direction, they chose
their time by moving forward without me. And that’s a
bold and strong move, I think…”

I know we’re all short-term memory challenged these days,
but we do still remember what the Suns have looked like
over the past decade without Steve Nash, right? Simply
put, Nash locked up his two MVP awards based on the games
he did not play, thereby illustrating the “valuable” in
MVP. Minus Nash, the Suns have been borderline
unwatchable. And, based on the above comment, it sounds
like Nash forecasts that the Suns are headed right back
from whence they came – another 29-win season like the
year before he returned.

Finally, if the likes of Eric Gordon can sign an NBA offer
sheet for $58 million guaranteed, then Drew Brees most
certainly deserves $60 million guaranteed to play the most
important position in the most popular and most profitable
sports league in the nation. Paulie Period.

Paul Calvisi

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