NN NFL Tournament of Badness Opening Round: Al Davis, Matt Millen and Ricky Bobby
by James Brady on Jun 13, 2011 2:00 PM PDT
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Apparently, I seeded the left side of the bracket like a madman and forgot all about the right side, because we've got another upset on our hands. At the time of writing this, Joe Theismann is really losing to Less Cheerleaders, and I honestly can't believe it! That being said, Joe Theismann is definitely only one half of one of the worst commentating duos in league history ... he had a partner. That partner is Matt Millen. Unfortunately for Millen, his partner is probably going down because you're all a bunch of pigs and are voting for the option that includes fewer women. I suppose I underestimated it! Either way, it's a good match today, as Matt Millen is taking on "Al Davis Drafting Like He's Being Advised By Ricky Bobby."
So make the jump to read the descriptions of the participants for today, read full results from the left side of the bracket and of course, view the entire bracket. But first: remember, we are voting on what we believe to be the absolute worst thing of the two. If you're voting in a worst food contest, and you like pizza more than hamburgers, you would then vote for hamburgers in that matchup. Get it? Got it? Good. Make the jump.
(6) Al Davis Drafting Like He's Being Advised By Ricky Bobby
Al Davis likes fast guys. He loves fast receivers and definitely loves wide defensive backs. He drafted Darrius Heyward-Bey over Michael Crabtree (I guess the verdict is still out on that) because he was faster. Davis apparently thinks the NFL is a footrace. It's not, Al. It's not. Davis is so crazy he actually has a history of drafting the faster offensive linemen for some reason. There is really nothing else to say, other than, try to look at this for how bad it is as opposed to saying "this is good because the Raiders suck!!!" It's terrible.
(11) Matt Millen
There are so many ways you can qualify this option for the tournament. Is it his awful commentary alongside Joe Theismann? He could easily make it for that reason, he's just one of the worst. He's just ... he's wrong about everything. He doesnt' even know what he's talking about, which is weird for a guy with his experience. Also, in regards to his experience ... he sucks at drafting. Like a lot. Put him and Al Davis together and you'll get ... well, you'll get the DHB pick. Go figure.
Day 1: "America's Team" def. "New York FOOTBALL Giants" - 428-40
Day 2: Rookie Holdouts def. Week 16, 17 Byes - 266-65
Day 3: Seahawks Alternates def. Buccaneers Loser Uniforms - 328-118
Day 4: New Referee Rule Limiting No Huddle def. Icing The Kicker - 180-116
Day 5: Twitter Beefs def Madden Curse - 125-108
Day 6: Prevent Defense def. Wildcat Formation - 296-65
Day 7: Chris Berman's Mannerisms def. The Many Faces of Philip Rivers - 188-185
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Day 9: Brett Favre's Media Whoring def. New AFC and NFC Championship Trophies - 293-39
Day 10: Fans That Take It Too Far def Franchise Tag - 231-42
Day 11: Daniel Snyder def. Rex Ryan's Foot Fetish - 126-76
Day 12: Garth DeFelice def. Donovan McNabb And Overtime Rules - 207-48
Day 13: TV Blackouts def Player 'X' Always Being Wide Open - 253-43
Day 14: Players Celebrating When Down Big def. Being A "Poor Man's" Something - 244-35
Day 15: NFL's Exclusive License With EA def. Super Bowl Halftime Shows - 161-139
Day 16: Cortland Finnegan def. Frank Gore's Love For Moran Norris - 191-145
Day 17: Player 'X' Being A Bust After One Season def. Player 'X Is A Beast - 209-39
Day 18: Players Doing Stupid Things def. Rashard Mendenhall's Twitter Account - 129-55
Day 19: Tanking The Season To Draft Andrew Luck def. Need To Look At The Film - 152-119
Day 20: Less Cheerleaders versus Joe Theismann -
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I really can't believe Theismann lost that one
Hopefully people will realize Millen is much worse on this one (mostly because Al Davis causing the Raiders to suck is a good thing in football).
Is there any contest really?
Matt Millen was one of the top 5 worst GMs in the history of the NFL (and maybe the worst in the last 20 years), without having the benefit of old age as an excuse. Plus he’s a horrible broadcaster.
It has to be Millen
I would put Al Davis on my list of favorite things about the NFL because it gives me great pleasure to see how badly things have been going for the Raiders since Gruden.
Matt Millen
The mustache is his only positive quality. Al Davis needs a mustache too and the fans would love him.
by mcwagner on Jun 13, 2011 2:33 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I actually dont mind Millen as a broadcaster
Plus he was on one of our superbowl teams i cant vote against him. I just hate everything about Al Davis, minus the fact that he gave us Crabtree and has made the Raiders suck for years. But i have to vote for Davis here
Millen
If my dog picked players he couldve picked better than Millen.
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by manraj7 on Jun 13, 2011 3:06 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I love how Ninjames writes. I wish he did the news:
Today on Capital Hill, Legislation passed measure A. Which I can’t believe because its stupid. I mean c’mon. Social Security is a bigger issue and they should just concentrate on what is worse.
by mcwagner on Jun 13, 2011 3:44 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
MILLEN!
i can not stand this guy! He destroyed the Lions. Poor Lions! Well actually they look pretty tough now if Stafford can stay healthy… Anyways I cringe everytime he is on the NFLN and Monday Night Football. I always think, what are the networks thinking, hiring a man who is irrelevant for the past decade and a half…
SF 49ers. SF Giants. SJ Sharks. CHI Bulls.
Your signature is like a “what’s wrong with this picture” game =)
by mrg80 on Jun 13, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Matt Millen, should not be a contest
Al Davis is a crazy but he’s also been a maverick, a very successful maverick. Al Davis was the first to many popular, successful ideas today … including the over emphasis on speed. Yes, it blows up in his face a fair amount of time but everything Matt Millen touched as GM blew up in his face.
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by bignerd on Jun 13, 2011 5:40 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Is this Tourney based on how "bad" one's football acumen is and was?..
if so, how are the Yorks left out of it? Or did I miss something?
In case 49er fans missed it: this once was a winning Franchise. Now it’s on the level of DET, complete with buffoons at all levels.
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Yes, you did miss something. The nominations.
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My attention span..
is more relegated to what’s relevant.
In this case, it’s better if I had a bong hit.
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There is no relevance in the NFL right now. Trying to have fun with this here tournament. You know, for fun.
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There is a ton of relevance..
in an off-season “strike”. You’re not old enough to remember.
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My age is not relevant to the discussion. Don’t make it personal.
There’s no news right now, I’m doing the best I can to have fun with this tournament. We’ll have posts when something happens with this lockout.
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Your age is relevant..
it pertains to what you deal as relevant. Obviously, I had an opinion. You dismissed it as trolling. It pertains to what content you deem as readable on a Fan blog. It’s fairly simple, yet you try to make this complex.
That’s why I find it superfluous.
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My age is not relevant because my age has nothing to do with my writing, the NFL, the 49ers, or the tournament of badness.
I don’t mind that you find it superfluous. It’s not for everybody.
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You did insult me, though. Multiple times. Trolling is intending to solely annoy another user, which you did.
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I'm more annoyed..
at your dismissal of anything that criticizes the site. It means you have no spine.
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I should say dissapointed..
that way my e-mail Inbox avoids a bit of Vitriol.
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That's not what it means.
You don’t know me and we do not delete or disallow posts that criticize the site or its writers. But it needs to be constructive.
In all honesty, I don’t like a lot of the SEO stuff, and I’m trying to work in other things as well. I mean, if you have any ideas for feasible posts right now, I truly am all ears. I’d just love it if you could do it without being passive aggressive and trying to belittle me while doing so. I don’t like it when people don’t like my writing, you know that, drummer. I’ve been like that since I started writing here. I emailed a user for three months getting feedback because, although it’s impossible, I want to please everybody all of the time.
I just find it hard to care when some of those people only want to insult me.
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I have been..
one of the biggest supporters of the site. You know this. I am also as well as you know very freakin’ humble.
Fooch knows this as well: I hate to see a decline in something I really believed in. I don’t think I have ever criticized a real football post you made. I do know you have called me a troll many times. Despite you having no clue what a troll is (as well as others who are in the upper “echelon” who have accused me of doing the same), I let it go, and continued to do what I do here. The realty is for everybody: you have ZERO to do with this team. At one point, this was a fine blog that was on the outside of the noise of the other 49er Fansites. Now it’s become a more fancy Bleacher Report. You know this. It’s become a morass of poor analysis, ego, and commercialism. How do I come to ascertain this? My personal e-mail Inbox shows it. You know. The Inbox only Fooch and others in the echelon have.
I will always be an Outsider. I refuse to try and curtail for the sake of site traffic. If I wanted to write again for this site, I could not and will not do it. If you are the de-facto Editor of content, then I have no place here. Because Truth matters.
For you to even call me a troll is a balls out lie. I’ve defended the integrity of this site since I logged on here. You refuse to uphold it.
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OK. You just offered up no criticisms or suggestions other than that I ‘refuse to uphold the integrity’ of the site.
Well, I have at least two posts a day, my daily links and this tournament as it stands. Everyone else has fun with this tournament. My last post not in those two criteria was about a video game I want to play that pertains to football. Before that, it was about Alex Smith getting all the spotlight and not Colin Kaepernick.
If that’s not good enough for you, I’m sorry. I’m currently going through a helluva lot and I don’t make a dime from NN and never have. Never will, I imagine. Yet I’m going to do it until the site isn’t around anymore because I love it and I love its users.
Again, I have my posting history and I am proud of it. I am sorry that you don’t like my writing or my tournament or what the site is as it stands. It’s out of my hands.
PS, I have never made a post for ‘the sake of site traffic.’ Never.
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The point is..
and you know this:
I really like your writing. You know this from how many times I applauded your thoughts on the draft, which I take no part of because unless you get paid in the NFL for decisions, you have no real juice on the subject.
Yet I held your posts on it with high regard.
You had a Zenith post when it came to Singletary as a Head Coach. Guess what? You finally came around to what I argued since he was chosen. Yet, I am the freakin’ troll. Same goes to ScotM and the FO, to which I wrote with fair acumen on how all of it would shake out. I was right. You know it. I know it. But I don’t gloat about it. Instead, I concentrate on the pragmatic issues that won’t be popular. I don’t care what other fans think. I never did. They don’t matter. I just wish someone here would do the same. Because you would be honest.
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None of that is related to your trolling and you know that. I applaud your foresight in the Singletary hiring and the like. I, admittedly, was one of the many who got sucked into the show.
Drummer, trolling if clearly defined as trying to solely annoy somebody else. I called you out on an isolated incident as a troll. That does not mean I think you always are, otherwise I would have called you one before. I haven’t. I don’t believe in grudges.
I’m doing all I can with my writing. I think I have a pretty good analysis-centric post coming up about the Byham and Walker, though I don’t know if it will be tomorrow afternoon or the next day. Hopefully it is to your liking.
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And from here on out, he will be known as “the Byham”
Even if my post is talking about how he is, how you say, superfluous.
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You know I like your writing..
So stop with your own passive-aggressive BS. It’s well documented how I regard your thoughts on the team and the draft. Just freakin’ look it up. The last time I addressed you had a fat APPLAUSE. So stop this crap, and let’s get to the meat:
The bottom line is when it comes to you dismissing me as a troll is pure bullcrap. I have done more for this site than any other I posted on. My history on 49er fans sites is easy to look up. I have carried my nic as drummer since the mid 90’s. The only site where I have put my ass on the line was here, as drummer, my nic since before this site existed. You really, really don’t know what, how and the definition of a troll is. Trust me, I still deal with trolls because I carry the same nic since the mid 90’s. I stand by my name. Because I have the balls to do it. They have even followed me here.
I will and always be drummer. That’s who I am in this bull**** 49er fan world. Again, and I will repeat this, this is the only site where I truly laid my cojones on the table. I am really sick and tired from the e-mails I used to get because DrewK was pissed at me. Or the false accusations from nocal melting. Do you really want me to lay this out? These are two of your current Front Page writers, who are the same time insecure and horrid as analysts, yet called me out, on the site itself.
So call me a troll of you wish. I have enough dirt about Niners Nation. I bet I will get yet another e-mail from Fooch about this crap. It’s as redundant as my posts about Alex Smith, though I will never mis-represent Smith with bullcrap stats.
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I did not dismiss you as a troll.
Like I said, that was an isolated moment where you were trolling. I called you a troll at that point. If you want to take that to the bank and start making me out to be something I’m not, you can. But I said word-for-word up there that I do not think you are a troll all the time, and have never called you a troll until tonight, when you were, in fact, trolling. By my definition anyway. We’ve reached a point where that doesn’t matter, that part of the conversation is over and done with, and if you want to drag it into others, that’s your prerogative. I remain open to discussing things and talking with you, unlike some others might.
I have not emailed you or made any effort to silence you. I have also been vocal with my own criticisms regarding Drew K and the way he conducts himself, but that really is not something I want to discuss here.
You can keep on being drummer, I have never had a problem with you. I don’t know what you’re asking of me beyond this, but YOU started out by telling me I’m unoriginal and that I don’t care about the site and that I’m not upholding its integrity.
Well you tell me what you want me to do, because I’m giving my writing all I’ve got. I really am, I’m putting more into it than most things in my life, including my store that’s about to go under, and what has it gotten for me? It’s gotten a guy insulting me for things that other writers are doing to you.
I just don’t know what you want from me.
And for the record, the message board I go on the most is called “Contests.” They run a lot of superfluous contests and tournaments. I decided to run this tournament because I felt as though it would be fun because I’m tapped out on give a damn with this garbage lockout.
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Please..
many a time I had a long thread going you called me a troll, and your boy Tre (whoever the frak he is) did the same. I don’t have a problem making this stuff public. I’m tired of dealing with it on the private. Niners Nation to me is at a crossroads, and who really cares what I think? I am just gonna state my case, settle old beefs, and call it out.
That being said, before my initial post that started this, I didn’t see a post about the Yorks, who are as horrid as Owners as Davis is, and just as disingenuous. Maybe you should link me your thoughts on them. I know you know mine. I sincerely would think any objective opinion on a 49er fansite would list them among Matt Millen. Millen didn’t even ruin a Dynasty. I dunno how any 49er fan can criticize Millen when the 49ers still have Smith as a starting QB. Maybe I missed it, and you can link me your thoughts on the Yorks, who are still thought of in the realm of the Fords.
Oh, I forget. Jed York said he was gonna find a GM and QB this past offseason. He hired both from within.
Where I was wrong in this was I misinterpreting your definition of “badness”. I think Badness is someone who doesn’t care what you think. Because ultimately you don’t matter. You don’t, and neither do I. It’s a harsh reality that eludes us in the real World. That’s why we have FanBlogs, superfluous McArticles, and worse, polls. To make us feel that we do matter. How the data is complied is by site bloat in an Absolut ad. Or worse, a sponsored article with said Fanpoll.
BTW, Polls are really, really stupid. They were left innocuous after the Joe Nedney Factor (which I coined BTW).
I think you really need an Editor. Andrew is awesome, and is missed here. Howie, the same. But the FP content is horrid. If you want to post cheese, just try and not make it Swiss please. Start by letting the FP posters know they are not “analysts”, and keep them away from any stat sheet. Moratorium on the phrase “My Analysis”. What’s worse is the cheap poll attached. Kinda takes away from the half assed “analysis”.
Hey, my 2 cents. Gonna add more value to it?
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I have not called you a troll outside of today. Not once.
As for you “making this stuff public,” I really don’t care, to be honest with you. Do it, just don’t be a douche about it (not saying you are, I’m saying don’t.)
As for the Yorks, there’s been plenty about them. They are not in the tournament bracket because they were not nominated. There was a thread that lasted a few days with nominations, and again, it’s a tournament for fun.
My thoughts on them? I think they’re some of the worst owners in sports. I have at least a little bit of hope for Jed, but I’m not buying anything he’s selling yet.
For the record, us having crappy owners and front office doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of other people that make stupid decisions. If I didn’t think it would win with 100% of the vote, I’d have included “hiring Mike Singletary” in the bracket. And that’s also something I addressed, it’s supposed to be fun and we eliminated some things early so as to keep it interesting. When the tourney is over, there will be some extra matches, like the winner of the tourney against the Yorks, Singletary and the lockout.
You saying I don’t matter doesn’t … really matter. I have no delusions of grandeur and have never touted my own importance, save for in jest. I am a fan of the NFL and a writer who covers the NFL, among other sports. With this tournament, I am looking to have fun and poke fun about things that I think suck in the NFL. I don’t expect Al Davis to read this and be hurt, if that’s what you think, you are so off base it’s not even right.
None of this is to make me feel better about anything. This is a fun tournament.
I like polls. A lot of users do. They are not going anywhere.
I would say that I’m an analyst. I’m a damn good writer and I’m credentialed. I can’t speak to the other people here, but I do enjoy a lot of the content we produce.
However, none of us make money for this and an editor would also not make any money, so it’s probably not going to happen.
Either way, like I said, your bit about FP posters not being analysts … I know I am. I dedicate a lot into validating that.
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I actually agree with you about this
Al Davis has an undeserved reputation for lunacy in this league, but he’s been vital to the success of football as a professional sport
Nobody will ever deny his contributions to the game.
However, he stopped making them a long, long time ago.
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I am so depressed that Matt Millen is not going past the first round.
It makes me sad for this tournament, i would have been happy if Millen had won it all.
Should post this on the Lion's site and watch their reaction ...!!
I'm your " Huckelberry "...it's just my game ...Jimmy Raye your no daisy ...!!
hey i gotta stick up for crazy al here. He’s clearly way past even his grandson’s prime. Makes senile decisions but someone of his age should be allowed that. Matt Millen on the other hand is just a moron. Al did some great things for football, Matt Millen gave fans 0-16. Plus why all the hate for Old Al? The longer he’s in charge the longer the raiders stay as the compost of the NFL. Long live Al Davis!
Al Davis wins this whatever contest hands down..
Why? Because he can care less what YOU think.
Ninjames who?
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I don’t get it. A “whatever” contest? And that’s great that he can care less, which means he cares a little bit. I’m glad for that.
Good luck with the trolling thing or whatever it is you do now.
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Listen here..
this whatever off-season McArticles that is supposed to generate traffic is not about me. This is the first freakin’ time I participated in this superfluous exercise. Grow a spine. Not everything you do is epic. For you to call me a troll is going down the DrewK path. Nice.
It’s sugar Honey. I call it as I see it. Of course you have a problem with that.
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OK, drummer.
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You should thank me...
for having original thoughts and trying to help you here. I generate opinion. Something you have forgotten.
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OK, drummer. You’re not going to get me to rise to your passive aggressive insults. I suggest you find a more original website to your liking, then.
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I did find a website..
it was Niners Nation. Now it’s McFanPoll Nation.
Guess who perpetuates that?
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It’s all a big conspiracy just to get on your nerves. Your initial assertion that this tournament is for page views is incorrect, by the way, because it doesn’t even do good page views relative to the rest of the stories on the site. It’s for fun. For everybody except for you, apparently.
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It's superflous...
yet you can’t admit it. Well, you do in a way. You’re just mad that it was I that made it transparent.
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I totally admit that its superfluous in regards to relevance in the NFL and the 49ers. It is not superfluous in that it is regarded as fun for a large portion of our users and people enjoy the bracket in this long and rather upsetting offseason.
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