The Ricky Proehl Syndrome

Don Wassall

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I just came across an article entitled "The Ricky Proehl Syndrome." Finally, a media expose of the racist stereotyping and slotting of white wide receivers!

Not quite. Turns out the article is about politics. Link supplied at the bottom if you want to read it, though I don't recommend it. Turns out that Proehl is not only the template for every white receiver for the next 1,000 years, he's also the epitome of the out of touch, bragging athlete. Here's the "Ricky Proehl Syndrome":

"For years now, the Washington pundit class has suffered from what New England Patriot fans might call the "Ricky Proehl Syndrome," an embarrassing tendency to make boastful pronouncements that turn out to be 180 degrees off target, often amusingly so.

"As football enthusiasts may recall, Ricky Proehl was a wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, which was played on Feb. 3, 2002. The Rams - winners of a Super Bowl two years earlier - were heavily favored to win again over the underdog New England Patriots and their novice quarterback Tom Brady.

"Before the game, Proehl turned to a camera and declared "tonight, a dynasty is born, baby," referring to his St. Louis Rams.

"After scoring a tying touchdown with 1:30 left in the game, Proehl was mugging to the cameras again. Celebrating the Rams' comeback, he declared, "It ain't over 'til it's over, baby."

"Both comments would prove prophetic though not as Proehl intended. In the final 1:21 of Super Bowl XXXVI, Brady led the Patriots down field setting up a game-winning 48-yard field goal by Adam Vinatieri as time expired. The game indeed wasn't over until it was over, but the Patriots - not the Rams - had won.

"On Feb. 6, 2005, Proehl was proved "right" again, when the Patriots earned their third championship in four years. A dynasty had been born on that night three years earlier, but it had been the Patriots, not the St. Louis Rams. Possibly remembering the Rams' boastful talk of "dynasty" before Super Bowl XXXVI, the Patriots have virtually banned the word from the team's vocabulary."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/020805.html
 

White Shogun

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Of all the boasting, bragging black athletes available in the NFL, this guy had to find one comment by one white wide receiver for his article.

How about CHAD JOHNSON syndrome, who made at least THREE guarantees this past season that did not come true? That was this YEAR, but this 'writer' had to go all the way back to 2002 to dig up Proehl's remarks? wtf man!
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Bart

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White Shogun said:
Of all the boasting, bragging black athletes available in the NFL, this guy had to find one comment by one white wide receiver for his article.


Yeah, when I think of arrogant , trash talking , boastful athletes, Ricky Proehl is the first name that comes to mind.
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foreverfree

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Proehl can be trash acting too. After getting a first down early in SB XXXIV against the Titans, Proehl served up an exaggerated first down signal, the first white player I ever saw do that. Of course, I saw it on television.
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When Proehl was with AZ and had teammates with names like Larry Centers and Aeneas Williams, I thought the Big Red's slogan should be "Greatest Names in Football".
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Is his fan club called "the Proehletariat"?
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white tornado

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Proehl can be trash acting too. After getting a first down early in SB XXXIV against the Titans, Proehl served up an exaggerated first down signal, the first white player I ever saw do that. Of course, I saw it on television.

I would hardly call giving a first down signal in the Superbowl trash. The whole white people don't celebrate thing is not true. In this country the ideas of how to celebrate or more accurtly how not to comes from our purictanical past. Watch a sporting event in Europe and you will see what Im talking about. Here are my criterer of when celerbration is called for. Keep in mind Im not talking about long drawn out over the top everybody look at me while I dance for thirty seconds type shananagins.

1.Only when your ahead or have a real chanse of wining the game.

2.Only on a play that helps the team, dont dance after you tackled a guy who just gained 15 yards.

I'd say the differance between the way white and black people go about celebrating is that with black people celebrating often becomes and end unto itself. Edited by: white tornado
 
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